Clinical Director

The Clinical Director plays a crucial role in overseeing the clinical aspects of service delivery, ensuring high-quality care for the community or population served. This position combines clinical expertise with leadership and management skills to advance the organization's mission and objectives. The role also includes providing strategic direction, ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care, and collaborating with other leaders to achieve organizational goals.

The Clinical Director is responsible for ensuring oversight in the areas of licensing regulations, legal and ethical regulations, clinical supervision, and program quality assurance.

• Develop and implement strategic plans for the clinical department in alignment with the overall organizational goals.
• Identify opportunities for improvement in clinical services and community care.
• Assist the Senior Director of Programs in the development of agency policies and procedures which are relevant to clinical issues.
• Attend and prepare reports to the Board of Directors as required, and advise the Board on clinical staff activities on a regular basis.

• Schedule and conduct multidisciplinary staff meetings.
• Schedule and conduct peer review committee to monitor the type of care being provided by the Center and to discuss methods for possible improvement among colleagues.
• Ensure that staff supervision notes, multidisciplinary staff notes and peer review notes are written and placed within the client’s chart and that minutes are kept for each meeting.
• Maintain adequate staff coverage and approve the use of comp time and PTO for all clinical staff.
• Review cases for quality of care according to established guidelines.
• Coordinate and be responsible for releasing client information in accordance with data privacy laws.
• Ensure that each client has an individualized program of treatment which may include individual psychotherapy, family or marital therapy, group psychotherapy, or referral to other community agencies.
• Become a key stakeholder for all programs under PCBH teams, funders, partners, including but not limited to SC2, DCFS, A2
  
  JMH, etc.

• Oversee intake, assessment, and assignment of each client’s psychosocial status and functioning in an effort to document history and identify preliminary items for the treatment plan.
• Support therapists with the overall development and implementation of a comprehensive, individualized plan of treatment in conjunction with other treatment team members.
• Support therapists with incorporating the client’s psychosocial functioning and strengths in the plan of care.
• Support therapists with providing and/or arranging therapeutic interventions as appropriate for patients or clients in a crisis situation.
• Follow up with therapists to determine reliability and validity of treatment used; make recommendations regarding modification to services and service delivery.
• Consult with therapists and related professional and paraprofessional staff, as appropriate, in the performance of therapeutic and/or casework; refer clients to appropriate service agencies as required.
• Act as lead supervisor to partnering educational institutions, lead internship applications and interviews with other therapists to recruit and identify potential student interns.
• Provide and support weekly scheduled supervision.
• Provide onsite safety planning and support for children, adults and families.

• Establish and monitor quality assurance programs to ensure the highest standards of client care.
• Implement and enforce policies and procedures to maintain compliance with regulatory standards and accreditation requirements.
• Analyze clinical…