Clinical Director (CD)

About the role

Job Type: Full-Time
Pay: $75,000 - $80,000 per year

Position Summary – Clinical Director

We are hiring an Clinical Director to join our leadership team in Nashville. This role is ideal for a licensed mental health professional seeking to work in youth behavioral health, juvenile care, or residential treatment.

Responsibilities

• Supervise, direct, and evaluate the work of master’s level clinical staff.
• Provide and/or arrange for their training as required.
• Ensure that therapy staff are trained in and adhere to the fidelity of evidence-based practices.
• Assist local management team through training, consultation and technical assistance in clinical or treatment-related subjects to staff of all direct-care departments.
• Organize and oversee clinical documentation of all diagnostics, and treatment planning, delivery and evaluation, ensuring that services meet treatment-related state, COA, and contractual requirements.
• Cookordination and oversight, in conjunction with appropriate management team members, of the composition, scheduling, processes and content of multidisciplinary treatment teams.
• Provide oversight and supervision for any special-needs treatment programs (e.g., 7 Challenges, etc.).
• Provide diagnostic evaluation, routine individual counseling, or crisis intervention counseling, as required by standing procedure, treatment plans, or special circumstances.
• Participate on local management team to set and enforce local policy, develop and implement long-range planning, and monitor programmatic, fiscal, and human resources aspects of the overall facility and schedules applying to management team members.
• May require on-call clinical duty.
• Participate on local quality improvement committee, acting as liaison between committee and management team.
• Serve as Designated Mental Health Authority for facility, where required by contract or state or local requirement.

Qualifications

• Active licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), or Clinical Psychologist in Tennessee.
• Master’s degree in counseling, social work, psychology, rehabilitation, or related human services field.
• Minimum two years of direct-care clinical experience, with at least one year of supervisory experience preferred.
• Ability to pass background check and drug screen.
• Strong clinical judgment and organizational skills.
• Willingness to work with youth in challenging situations.

Other Requirements

• Physical Demands: Must be able to move throughout the facility, actively participate in youth activities, and occasionally lift/move up to 20 pounds.
• Maintain a valid state driver’s license and meet state criminal background check requirements.
• Occasional irregular hours may be required.