Clinical Director

Essential Functions of Position

• Provide clinical oversight and training to all program staff to improve staff skills related to engaging residents and providing meaningful services to address both substance use and mental health disorders.
• Support all staff in becoming proficient in evidence-based practices for managing and supporting both substance use and mental health disorders.
• Provide individual and group supervision to case managers.
• Supervise record management, assuring maintenance of resident records in compliance with agency and funder requirements, train staff on record requirements, regularly review records, and supervise individual staff for records mastery.
• Ensure that high quality assessments and treatment plans are completed within expected timeframes, review all assessments, treatment plans, and treatment plan reviews to ensure compliance with DPH regulations and sign off.
• Ensure stage of motivation is incorporated into individualized plans and formally prescribed and delivered stage-wise treatments for both substance use and mental health issues.
• Ensure the provision of at least five hours of evidence-based clinical treatment programming each week and provide direct group and individual clinical treatment to residents via evidence-based practices.
• Ensure that all required treatment services are provided directly by the program or through Qualified Service Organizations, Business Associate Agreement, or other applicable agreement.
• Ensure that the care coordinator is directly connecting residents to appropriate providers based on continuum of care and residents educational, vocational, financial, legal and housing; and (2) updating the residents' primary care provider on treatment and progress, such as by providing the residents' record to the primary care provider upon the resident’s documented authorization.
• Ensure that daily programming is occurring and that the daily activities are facilitating the stabilization of the residents’ substance use and mental health symptoms, maintenance of medication regimens, participation in community interactions and promoting residents’ recovery.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary team review and ensure timely documentation of outcome.
• Support the development, review, and revision of policies and procedures that impact access to service and equity, ensuring that policies and procedures do not restrict access to admission or services provided therein.
• Ensure timely and accurate communication and coordination of care with other providers, such as DCF and DPH.
• Serve as an administrative resource as the manager on duty in absence of the Program Director.
• Provide crisis assessment, prevention, and needed intervention during scheduled hours and while on-call in nights and weekends as scheduled by providing on-call coverage on a rotating basis.

Requirements for the position

• A master's degree in one of the following disciplines or a closely related field: clinical psychology, education-counseling, medicine, mental health, psychology, psychiatric nursing, rehabilitative counseling, or social work.
• Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LICSW, LMHC, LMFT or as a LADC I) preferred. May be LPHA eligible.
• At least two years of experience and competency in both addiction and mental health treatment.
• At least one year of full time equivalent clinical supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated professional writing, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Intermediate proficiency in word processing and other computer functions using Windows, Word, and Google Email and Apps.
• Demonstrated commitment to a sustained effort to seek out, acknowledge, and respect the diverse voices of all stakeholders and to advance inclusivity through every function of the role and the agency as a whole.