Clinical Manager

A Clinical Manager must possess a master’s Degree’s with a Level. The Clinical Manager must, at a minimum, be a graduate of a college or university with a Masters’ Degree in a human service field. Must be licensed in the state of Washington, DC as LPC or LICSW.  The Clinical Manager must have sufficient individual competence, professional qualifications and experience to provide service coordination; crisis assessment and intervention; symptom assessment and management; individual counseling and psychotherapy; medication prescription, administration, monitoring and documentation; substance abuse treatment; work-related services; activities of daily living services; social, interpersonal relationship and leisure-time activity services; support services or direct assistance to ensure that individuals obtain the basic necessities of daily life; and education, support, and consultation to individuals’ families and other major supports.

•   Direct supervision and oversight of the Community Support Worker.


• Practice as a clinician on the MENTAL HEALTH REHABILIATION SERVICES and making sure that authorizations and reauthorizations, treatment plan, DLA-20, reassessments. CALOCUS are current.


• Serve as an intricate member of the MENTAL HEALTH REHAB and ensure that the team is consistently able to provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services 24 hours a day, seven days per week.


• Provide structured face-to-face scheduled therapeutic interventions to provide support and guidance in all areas of functional domains: adaptive, communication, personal care, domestic, psychosocial, problem solving, etc. in preventing, overcoming, or managing the recipient's level of functioning and enhancing his/her ability to remain in the community.


• Provide a variety of strengths based and focused interventions that address the functional problems associated with the most complex and/or pervasive conditions of the identified population that will increase the recipient's ability to cope and relate to others and enhancing the highest level of functioning in the community.

• Make sure that CSW’s Documentation must include a minimum standard is a daily full service note that includes the consumer’s name, Medicaid identification number, date of service, purpose of contact, describes the provider’s interventions, includes the time spent performing the interventions, effectiveness of the intervention, and the signature of the staff providing the service.


• Completing the Diagnostic Assessment and updated assessments