Clinical Director

Position Summary:

Management position involving supervisory, administrative, and managerial duties along with direct services to youth. Supervises licensed Master?s level program treatment therapists in their delivery of treatment services to youth with histories of substance abuse, delinquency and/or mental health problems, and provides diagnostic services, counseling, and evaluation as required by treatment planning or crisis intervention policies. Supervises Case Management team in their delivery of services including communication with families, JPO?s, completion of RPACT or other assessments, performance summaries, etc.

Responsible for delivery and documentation of all mental health-related treatment services including biopsychosocial. Serves as standing member of the facility?s management team, sharing responsibility for all programmatic, operational, clinical, fiscal, and employee-related matters. Maintains supervision of all clinical timelines and contact for clinical matters with outside agencies. Supervises the Licensed Mental Health Counselor and the Therapist.

Essential Duties:

• Supervise, direct, and evaluate the work of case management and master?s level clinical staff. Provide and/or arrange for their training as required.

• Ensure that case management and 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.

• Coordinate and oversee, in conjunction with appropriate management team members, the composition, scheduling, processes and content of multi-disciplinary treatment teams.

• Provide oversight and supervision for any special-needs treatment programs (e.g., Sexual Offender treatment 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.

• 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.

• The services for which the Coordinator will serve as authority may include Mental Health Overlay Services (MHOS), Substance Abuse Overlay Services (SAOS), Intensive Mental Health Services, or any others as required.

• In Florida, or any program providing Overlay Services, the CSC will comply with the following duties:

• Conduct interviews with clients to develop the individual Mental Health Treatment Plan Review and sign the psychosocial assessment if needed

• Review and sign the behavioral health treatment plan

• Provide at least four hours clinical supervision per month

• Provide assessments and individual or family therapy if more extensive services are needed

• Provide oversight and coordination of MHOS/SAOS

• Conduct fact-to-face interview to develop an individual treatment plan (DJJ)