Lead Recovery Support Coordinator

About This Role

This role is responsible for the professional social counseling work of average difficulty, overseeing a team providing social counseling services and performing related administrative work.

Responsibilities

• Assigns, trains, supervises, and evaluates staff providing professional social counseling services
• Reviews case narratives prepared by subordinate staff checking for correctness, completeness, and adherence to policy and procedure
• Makes recommendation on retention, promotion, demotion, and other human resources actions
• Discusses difficult cases with staff in order to assist in problem solving
• Gives technical advice to staff, families, and other provider agencies
• Determines, schedules, and provides in-service training for subordinate staff
• Supervises and participates in the preparation of narrative and simple statistical records and reports
• Assists in studying relevant policy and procedure and in making recommendations for change
• Explains and enforces policy and procedure for operations and functions within sphere of authority

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in a social or behavioral science
• Experience equivalent to three years of full-time professional social or human services counseling work (or substitute graduate coursework)
• Agreement to complete a criminal history disclosure form
• Agreement to release all records involving criminal history to appointing authority
• Supply a fingerprint sample for a fingerprint based criminal history records check
• Submit to a review of status on the Department of Health's vulnerable persons registry

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a social or behavioral science
• Three years of full-time professional social or human services counseling work; additional qualifying graduate coursework in social work may be substituted for the required experience, on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of two years; OR three years of full-time professional social or human services counseling experience with the State of Tennessee.

Benefits