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Mental Health Program Director A

Salary

$4,177.00 - $7,518.00 Monthly

Location

Houma, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

208657

Department

LDH-South Central Louisiana Human Services Authority

Opening Date

05/15/2025

Closing Date

5/25/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

Helping people, changing lives through education, prevention, intervention, and treatment in an effort to enhance quality of life.

This vacancy is located at SCLHSA's Terrebonne Behavioral Health Center located in Houma, LA.

This incumbent plans, supervises, and directs the Clinical Department of the Terrebonne Behavioral Health Center. Supervision is exercised over other clinical staff. The incumbent monitors, assesses, and develops clinical core competencies, training, and orientation by clinical supervision and oversees all clinicians providing direct treatment services. The incumbent will provide formal clinical supervision to interns, counselors, and master-level clinicians. This is a highly responsible professional-level clinical and supervisory position receiving broad directives from administration. The incumbent must be a licensed master-level clinician in good standing.

Minimum Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

A master’s degree in a social science, health or human services, nursing, or health administration field plus three years of experience providing behavioral health treatment; OR

A doctorate in a social science, health or human services, nursing, or health administration field, or a medical degree plus two years of experience providing behavioral health treatment.

Job Specification

FUNCTION OF WORK :

To direct special services programs in a small to medium mental health region or human services district or direct program areas of a mental health center.

LEVEL OF WORK:

Program Manager.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Broad review from a higher-level manager or administrator.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

Project basis over staff in specific assigned special services programs.

LOCATION OF WORK:

Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Mental Health; Human Services Districts.

JOB DISTINCTIONS:

Differs from the Mental Health Program Director--B by the absence of responsibility for directing special services program in a large mental health region.

Differs from the Mental Health Specialist 1 and 2 by the absence of responsibility for coordinating and directing special services programs statewide.

Job Duties and Other Information

50% Delivers expert and specialized clinical services, as a licensed clinician, to clients with behavioral health issues.

+ Provides crisis assessments, crisis intervention, individual, family and group therapy to clients and family members, treatment planning, and discharge planning.

+ Assesses emergency cases to secure hospitalization of clients who are suicidal, homicidal, or gravely disabled.

+ Assists clients in obtaining community resources in regards to physical and mental health and obtaining community resources to meet basic needs.

+ Documents all required client contacts.

+ Maintains clinical charts and regularly updates clinical assessments, treatment plans, and LOCUS.

20% Directs, through supervisory sessions, services meetings, scheduling and direct interventions, the provision of clinical services such as crisis, screening and admission, assessment, and therapy.

+ Coordinates emergency coverage throughout the 40-hour week.

+ Provides evaluations of clinicians to clinical staff and manager of clinicians’ direct service times, appropriate and competent use of case related documentation, clinical forms, interventions, and clinical judgment.

20% Provides, through case consultations and staffing, consultation and training to interdisciplinary staff on complex and specialized cases involving adults with serious and persistent mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbance.

+ This involves teaching clinical skills and specialized techniques as well as routine policies and procedures.

+ Provides consultation to other agencies such as schools, courts, and prisons through meetings and consulting sessions.

+ Serves as resource person to other clinicians for referrals to other facilities and services.

5% Supervises, through supervisory sessions, supervisory plans, detailing of job duties and core competencies, performance planning and evaluation.

+ Participates in job interviews and recommends hiring, promotions and disciplinary action.

5% Other duties as assigned by MH Center Manager B or SCLHSA Clinical Director

NOTE REGARDING ADVERTISED PAY:

The actual starting salary depends on the education and experience of the selected applicant.

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

*Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.*

For further information about this vacancy contact:

Macy Comeaux

HR Director

[email protected]

985-876-8876

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

+ New Year's Day

+ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

+ Mardi Gras,

+ Good Friday,

+ Memorial Day,

+ Independence Day,

+ Labor Day,

+ Veteran's Day,

+ Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

+ Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\_Retirement\_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

+ Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

+ Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

Employer

State of Louisiana

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Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802

Phone

(866) 783-5462

Website

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