CLINICAL SUPERVISION BY MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

Subpart 1. Mental health professional consultation. The license holder must ensure that the residential program employs or contracts with a mental health professional to provide consultation relating to the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of program services. Subp. 2. Supervision of staff. A mental health professional must provide at least weekly face-to-face clinical supervision to staff providing program services to a resident. The mental health professional: A. must provide clinical supervision of staff either individually or as a group; B. must document the clinical supervision of staff; C. must advise the facility director about the planning, development, and implementation of staff development and evaluation; and D. may provide consultation instead of clinical supervision to other mental health professionals under contract or employed by the license holder to provide program services to a resident. Subp. 3. Supervision of treatment. A mental health professional must: A. supervise the diagnostic assessment of each resident in the facility and the development of each resident's individual treatment plan; B. document involvement in the treatment planning process by signing the individual treatment plan; C. supervise the implementation of the individual treatment plan and the ongoing documentation and evaluation of each resident's progress, including the quarterly progress review; and D. document on a biweekly basis a review of all the program services provided for the resident in the preceding weeks. The license holder must ensure that the mental health professional can be reached for consultation about a mental health emergency, at least by telephone, within 30 minutes.