Clinical Support Supervisor

Position Summary

The Clinical Support Supervisor plays a vital role in ensuring treatment quality, placement oversight, and clinical support for youth in care. This position provides leadership, crisis intervention, and supervision to agency staff and foster parents to promote safe, stable, and compliant foster placements. The ideal candidate combines strong clinical judgement with a thorough understanding of child welfare operations and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Guidance & Crisis Support: Provide clinical oversight, direction, and crisis support to staff and foster parents to ensure high-quality care and trauma-informed support which includes on-call rotation.

Intake & Placement Oversight: Manage intake processes, placement matching, foster home licensing studies, and foster parent orientation/training.

Placement Stability & Quality: Champion child well-being, placement stability, program improvements, and adherence to agency policies and state standards.

Compliance & Quality Assurance: Oversee file compliance, regulatory audits, reporting, tracking systems, and responses to state regulatory bodies.

Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner effectively with case managers, foster parents, community partners, and state agencies to support ongoing licensing and placement needs.

Treatment Planning: Supervise treatment planning processes, regular clinical reviews, and multi-disciplinary team meetings.

Qualifications

Education: Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW), Counseling, Psychology, Sociology, Child and Family Studies, or an approved related human services field.

Licensure: Independent or associate clinical licensure preferred (e.g., LCSW, LPC, LMFT, LMSW, LAC). Candidates actively working toward independent licensure may be considered.

Experience: Minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience. Direct experience in foster care or child welfare systems is strongly preferred.

Leadership: Minimum of 2 years of supervisory or leadership experience preferred.

Knowledge Base: In-depth understanding of Arizona foster care licensing rules, child welfare regulations, and placement best practices.