Clinical Social Work Supervisor II - Behavioral Health Quality Assurance Coordinator (N344)

Salary Range: $86,869.08 - $112,450.80 annually

SUMMARY
The Los Angeles County Department of Homeless Services and Housing (HSH) consolidates our countywide response to homelessness.

The driving force behind HSH is increasing accountability and transparency, improving care for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, and streamlining collaboration with partners including services providers, the County’s 88 cities, and unincorporated areas to deliver high-quality, life-saving care.

Staff schedules are based on business need and may include the option of a hybrid work schedule where employees work remotely and from the office.

The HSH Behavioral Health (BH) Quality Assurance Coordinator (QAC) under the direction of the HSH Social Work Chief will lead efforts to ensure the practice of high-quality, evidence-based behavioral health programming across HSH and design/implement/evaluation continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiatives to ensure that key performance metrics for the HSH BH program are met.

The HSH BH QAC will engage with HSH DHS employees and contracted staff in various HSH programs, including the street-based outreach and engagement teams, the mobile clinics, the interim housing teams, the permanent supportive housing teams, the enriched residential care teams, and the STAR clinic.

This role will include research and implementation of best practices within behavioral programs for front-line and contracted staff.

The BH Quality Assurance Coordinator will help lead efforts to design, test and implement BH-focused interventions that are trauma-informed, patient-centered, and support client resilience and functional recovery.

The BH Quality Assurance Coordinator will help train staff in how to deliver these best practice interventions and then oversee the evaluation of these interventions to ensure quality.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS


* Identify best practices for HSH programming to Persons Experiencing Homelessness (PEH) with behavioral health issues


* Develop policies and protocols to enact best practices among staff deliver-ing behavioral health interventions to PEH


* Develop training and work force development standards for staff delivering BH services to PEH and participate in training efforts among HSH staff


* Assist in the development of key performance indicators for BH services


* Develop and implement data collection and analytic plans to determine if KPIs are being achieved


* Use data to inform continuous quality improvement initiatives to enhance process and outcomes metrics in the BH program


* Assist in development of strategies and trainings to address gaps in per-formance and improve services.


* Keep updated and informed on internal and external policies, evidence-based practices, and requirements and regulations that impact delivery of high quality- behavioral health services to PEH.


* Advise BH staff regarding program, procedural, and legislative changes, the availability ...