1.
It is the responsibility of the Community Care Executive
Director to ensure that all employees receive adequate administrative and
clinical supervision.
2.
Supervision types include the following:
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Administrative supervision: will occur on a regularly
scheduled basis. Each employee's immediate supervisor will provide this
supervision. Minimally two sessions monthly of administrative supervision will
occur, either individual or group.
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Group supervision: will be provided as appropriate (or
requested by provider) to supplement individual supervision.
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Clinical Supervision: will be provided by the Clinical
Supervisors or other designated, and appropriately clinically licensed,
individuals to all applicable employees with appropriate clinical
qualifications.
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Individual Supervision: will occur as needed.
3.
Clinical supervision will occur minimally four hours monthly
for all direct service providers who do not hold clinical licensure. This
supervision may be provided to teams and groups. Clinical supervision will
occur not less that one hour per month for all licensed direct service
providers. Individual clinical supervision will be provided as appropriate or
as requested by employees. (As identified in item # 9 below)
4.
The supervisory process will include the following:
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Employee tasks and workload review;
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A review of service volume including an accounting of
the service needs of assigned clients;
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A review of the service practice with a comparison to
best practice standards;
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A review of the employee's development plan including a
review of all planned outcomes in the area of performance and the progress made
toward achieving goals within this plan; and
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A performance review, conducted at the quarterly
required times for new employees, not less than annually after the first year,
and more often if necessary (as identified in item #10 below).
5.
The performance review will include the following:
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An assessment of job performance in relation to the
expectations defined in the job description and the objectives established in
the most recent evaluation;
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A description of clearly defined objectives and
outcomes for future performance;
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Recommendations for further training and skill
building, if applicable; and
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An opportunity for the employee sign the document and
to include their comments in the therein; and
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The presentation of a written copy of the review to the
employee and to their personnel file.
6.
All individual and group supervision will be documented on the
appropriate form, including date, length and topic(s). The employee maintains a
copy, with the supervisor maintaining the original on file. Clinical
supervision hours are also maintained in the public folders, entered therein by
a designated individual from each team or program, with the original document
filed in the office of Human Resources.
7.
At any time, the employee may directly contact other persons
within the supervisory chain, or the Executive Director, if that employee
believes that supervisory concerns are not being adequately or appropriately
dealt with by the employee's own supervisor.
8.
All supervisors will engage in supervision that includes
discussions and professional development of supervisory skills and strategies
to be used by the supervisor.
9.
Qualified personnel will provide clinical supervision for
clinicians to assure licensure compliance. Minimal parameters include:
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One hour per month for those licensed to practice
independently.
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Four hours per month for practitioners not licensed to
practice independently or the amount of supervision required by their
professional licensing authority (whichever is greater).
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For independent practitioners, consultation can include
case reviews and team meetings in which the individual is not acting in a
supervisory capacity.
10.
In addition to the required documentation above, supervisors
must complete, review with the supervises, and forward to Human Resources for
the personnel file the following:
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90 Day Review (From Original Hire Date)
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6 Month Review (From Original Hire Date)
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Annual Review (To be completed yearly from Original
Hire Date)