DIRECTOR, WELLNESS RECOVERY CENTER- CHARLOTTESVILLE (FULL-TIME)

General Statement of Responsibilities

This is a FLSA exempt position in which the incumbent serves as Director at the Wellness Recovery Center, a Region Ten program for adults experiencing a mental health crisis. Under the direction of the Senior Director of Emergency Services & Short-Term Stabilization Services, the incumbent assists with clinical training, staffing, coordinating program services, and clinical supervision of staff and has responsibility for daily operation, to include hiring, training, and supervision of staff, support across the crisis continuum and programs within the center, ensuring compliance with all licensure and regulatory standards, and effective facility management. The incumbent reports to the Senior Director of Emergency Services & Short-Term Stabilization Services for the schedule and assignment of work duties. He/she is monitored, trained and supervised in the performance of his/her tasks by the Senior Director of Emergency Services & Short-Term Stabilization Services. He/she is expected to perform duties as specified and according to the policies of Region Ten Community Services Board, as well as those of the DBHDS. The Director is part of the Wellness Recovery Center Administrative Group, which is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the program and ensuring that all aspects of the program run smoothly.

Qualifications

• Education: A Master’s degree is required.

• Experience: Minimum requirements include four years of clinical experience and two years of supervisory or leadership experience. Clinical and supervisory experience in crisis stabilization or other high-intensity programming preferred.

• Certification/License: The incumbent must be licensed as an LCSW or an LPC. A valid Virginia Driver’s License plus an acceptable driving record as issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles are required. For business use of a personal car, a certificate of valid personal automobile insurance must be provided.

Knowledge

• Nature of serious mental illness in adults and mental illness with substance use;

• Crisis recognition, prevention, and management techniques;

• Supervision principles;

• Research issues and service models in the mental health field;

• Treatment modalities and intervention techniques, such as behavior management, independent living skills training, supportive counseling, family education, crisis intervention, discharge planning and services coordination;

• Medical issues related to mental illness;

• Symptomology of substance abuse;

• Voluntary/involuntary commitment procedures;

• Medications - side effects;

• Different types of assessments, planning;

• Consumers' rights;

• Local community resources and service delivery systems, including support services (e.g., housing, financial, social welfare, dental, transportation, communication, recreation, legal/advocacy), eligibility criteria and intake processes, termination criteria and intake processes, and general community resources (e.g., churches, clubs, self-help groups);

• Types of mental health programs, services;

• Effective oral, written and interpersonal communication principles and techniques;

• General principles of record documentation;

• The service planning process and major components of a service plan.

Skills

• Staff supervision and leadership;

• Developing cohesive team efforts;

• Interviewing;

• Observing, recording and reporting on an individual's functioning (observation of medication effects, i.e., alcohol and abuse);

• Identifying and documenting a consumer's needs for resources, services and other support;

• Identifying services within the community and established service system to meet the individual's needs;

• Formulating, negotiating with consumers and service providers;

• Coordinating the provision of services by diverse public and private providers;

• Identifying community resources and organizations;

• Coordinating resources and activities;

• Using assessment tools (e.g., level of functional scale, life profile scale);

• Non-punitive behavior;

• Providing consultation;

• Coordinating;

• A high level of administrative and organizational skills.

Abilities

• Motivate and lead staff;

• Manage changing schedules;

• Communicate clearly, anticipate, prevent and handle crisis;

• Demonstrate a positive regard for consumers and their families (e.g., treating consumers as individuals, allowing risk taking, avoiding stereotypes of mentally ill people, respecting consumers' and families' privacy, believing consumers are valuable members of society);

• Work as a team member, maintain effective inter- and intra-agency working relationships;

• Work independently, read and interpret policies and procedures;

• Monitor and train staff to comply with agency policies and procedures and program protocols;

• Recommend to Senior Director needed changes, errors, additions and/or negations to program protocols, performing position duties under general supervision;

• Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing;

• Drive defensively.

Grade

Grade: 15

Annual Salary Range

SALARY RANGE: $77,452.14-$116,178.21

Schedule

Schedule: Full-time (Exempt)

Position Location

Position Location: 504 Old Lynchburg Rd. Charlottesville, VA 22903