Manager, Clinical Program - Inpatient

About the role

The Manager, Clinical Program Inpatient oversees the inpatient clinical department, ensuring efficient operations and high patient satisfaction. This role also involves monitoring care coordination and quality, maintaining clinical documentation, and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight and mentorship to therapy staff, including performance evaluations and corrective action as needed.
• Communicate regularly with the Director, Clinical Services regarding programming, staffing, and clinical concerns.
• Conduct and oversee chart audits, ensuring compliance with treatment and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain positive relationships with referral sources, community agencies, and organizations.
• Collaborate with the Medical Director and interdisciplinary team to address clinical concerns and optimize treatment programs.
• Ensure all therapy interventions (individual, group, and family) are conducted and documented per clinical standards.
• Supervise therapist adherence to required assessments and patient treatment planning.
• Absorb and manage therapist scheduling and coverage to meet staffing needs.
• Conduct individual, group, and family therapy sessions and contribute to the development of group programming.
• Oversee appropriate and timely discharge, transition, and after-care planning for patients.
• Demonstrate crisis intervention skills and assist the team in ensuring patient safety.
• Perform other duties as assigned by leadership.

Requirements

• Master’s degree from an accredited school of social work or equivalent in social services.
• Knowledge of psychiatric and chemical dependency treatment principles.
• Previous experience in an inpatient hospital program preferred.
• Current unencumbered clinical social work or counseling license as required by state.

Skills / Abilities

• Excellent assertive communication skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to foster cooperation across departmental lines and manage information, environmental, and fiscal resources to accomplish goals.
• Good writing and composition skills.
• Able to organize and prioritize high volume workload.
• Able to function with minimal supervision.
• Able to maintain overall good work attitude and interact cooperatively and professionally with other staff members.
• Possess basic competency in age, disability, and cultural diversity needs of patients served and ability to relate to patients in a manner sensitive to those needs.
• Communicates in an age/disability related manner to patients and patients’ families.
• Must successfully complete a Basic Life Saving (BLS) course and an Oceans approved deescalation program.

Work Environment

This position can be high paced and stressful; must be able to cope mentally and physically to atmosphere. Work requires spending approximately 90% or more of the time inside a building that offers protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.