Medical Director

Key Responsibilities

• Provide medical and clinical oversight of behavioral health and SUD services.
• Serve as Medical Director for Agency behavioral health programs.
• Provide psychiatric diagnostic evaluations and psychiatric and SUD assessments.
• Manage medications and prescribe psychotropic medications.
• Provide Medication-Assisted Treatment (MOUD/MAT).
• Provide crisis psychiatric consultation when clinically appropriate.
• Conduct suicide and violence risk assessments.
• Develop treatment plans and provide patient and family education.
• Review laboratory results and monitor medications.
• Provide withdrawal management consultation within scope of practice.
• Provide telepsychiatry services when applicable.

Interdisciplinary Care

• Participate in interdisciplinary treatment team meetings.
• Consult with therapists, CADCs, counselors, case managers, nursing staff, and leadership.
• Review complex cases and support clinical decision-making for high-risk clients.

Quality & Clinical Governance

• Participate in quality assurance activities, including periodic chart reviews and documentation sign-offs.
• Promote evidence-based psychiatric and substance use treatment.
• Participate in Quality Improvement and Performance Improvement initiatives.
• Develop, review, and approve clinical policies, procedures, standing orders, and clinical protocols.

Strategic Support

• Assist with strategic planning and service expansion.
• Perform other duties as assigned within the guidelines of the position.