Clinical Director

Clinical Director

Reports to:

Executive Director

FLSA Status:
Exempt

The Clinical Director is responsible for the overall operation of the outpatient clinic, including daily management, ensuring that clinical supervision is available during all operational hours, developing a quality improvement plan for the outpatient clinic, and monitoring adherence to appropriate regulations/licensing requirements. The Clinical Director is also responsible for overseeing all clinical programming and collaborating with members of the Leadership team on various administrative functions.

This includes providing clinical services while also supervising, providing performance reviews for clinical staff, and coordinating and evaluating all program services. The Clinical Director will assist in program development (i.e., clinical curriculum, programming, group facilitation and documentation, treatment planning, etc.), financial management, program marketing, hiring and supervising clinical staff, and evaluating program policies for clinical operations and processes. This position will assist the Executive Director in areas of problems solving, conflict resolution, readiness for State visits and other areas as assigned.

• Provides supervision for clinical staff. This entails facilitating weekly/ biweekly individual and group supervision with each counselor, documenting supervision notes, and assisting counselors in effective and individualized treatments for clients with regular case conceptualization consults and treatment team meetings.
• Supervises all clinical staff activities, which includes monitoring groups, individual therapy, documentation practices, and charting to maintain the highest standards of quality and effectiveness.
• Providing direct clinical care to clients in individual and group settings, as needed.
• Develops and implements the policies and procedures for the operation of the outpatient clinic.
• Coordinates and collaborates with contracted billing company and any internal utilization review staff.
• Works to assist in implementation and full collaboration with Electronic Health Record company and build data and compliance infrastructure (i.e., clinical forms, assessments, screeners, consents, and reports).
• Participates in monthly medical records meetings and quality assurance performance improvement meetings. Develops and spear any clinical performance improvement strategies, if applicable.
• Participates in the overall employment process for clinical staff, including recruiting, interviewing, employing, supervising, and discharging, according to established personnel policies.
• Completes performance appraisals for clinical and administrative staff on an annual basis and works with Human Resources on employee performance management throughout the year.
• Provides supervision and documentation of clinical staff training and development and monitors the compliance of staff credentialing. This includes initial onboarding training and ongoing required trainings.
• Networks with other organizations to increase the referral base.
• Functions as Leader/Liaison of multi-disciplinary Clinical Treatment Team.
• Evaluates quality of program on an ongoing basis and develops cost-effective methods to provide services.
• Fosters a healthy and positive team-approach with staff.
• Promotes a positive workplace culture to effectively recruit and retain high quality staff.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Master’s Degree in a Behavioral Health Related field.
• License in social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy, or substance use; clinical supervision certification/ licensure required (i.e., LISW-S, LCSW, LPC, LMFT, and/or similar…