Medical Director - Addiction Medicine​/Psychiatry

Medical Director – Addiction Medicine / Psychiatry

The Recovery Village Indianapolis | Advanced Recovery Systems

Location: Indianapolis, IN
Position Type: Full-Time (Monday to Friday 8AM to 5 PM - with rotating weekend coverage)
Specialty: Addiction Medicine / Psychiatry
Setting: Residential Addiction Treatment & Behavioral Healthcare

The Recovery Village Indianapolis, part of Advanced Recovery Systems (ARS), is a comprehensive addiction treatment facility located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our facility provides a supportive, healing environment for individuals struggling with substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Through medically supervised detoxification, residential treatment, and evidence-based therapeutic services, our multidisciplinary team delivers individualized, compassionate care designed to address the physical, psychological, and emotional aspects of addiction.

Combining medical expertise, psychiatric support, and a patient-centered approach, The Recovery Village Indianapolis is committed to helping individuals build a strong foundation for lasting recovery.

As Medical Director, you will have the opportunity to provide clinical leadership for a multidisciplinary team of physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, therapists, counselors, and behavioral health professionals. You will play a key role in maintaining high standards of medical care, supporting evidence-based addiction treatment, overseeing clinical protocols, and helping ensure patients with complex substance use and co-occurring psychiatric conditions receive safe, compassionate, and individualized care.

The Medical Director provides administrative oversight of the facility's medical services, by overseeing and leading the medical staff, dietitians, and physician services coordinator (where applicable) while building a collaborative team with nursing and clinical departments. Administrative duties are a small part of the Medical Director’s job. They must spend much of their time meeting the job duties of either a psychiatrist or addiction medicine physician.

Provides excellent medical care with the ARS philosophy outlined by the Chief Medical Officer. This includes knowledge of detoxification protocols, assessment for medication, withdrawal assessment and management of complications, detoxification protocols, and Medication Assisted Therapy.

Understands ASAM criteria and Medical Needs Criteria provided and will document decision making accordingly.

Assists the CMO/ or Assoc CMP and the Executive Director of the facility in the development and maintenance of written objectives, policies, a procedure manual, an organization plan and a quality assurance program for medical services, and review of all medical policies and procedures at least annually. Documentation shall be shared with the facility’s medical staff; the director of nursing services and other appropriate medical staff on an ongoing basis or as revisions are made.

In conjunction with the CMO, Executive Director and the governing authority of the substance use disorders treatment facility, plan, and budget for medical services.

Support medical staff for success with medical department metrics including, but not limited to Expense Management, Compliance Quantity (includes items such as but not limited to timely completion of records, PDMP, EKG, MAT acceptance), Compliance Quality (Quality of documentation of medical records), Completion % treatment stay, and Outcomes/ Readmission rates.

OTHER REQUIRED TASKS:

Completes and is proficient using the electronic health record with all required documentation. ensuring compliance with all company policies and procedures, state regulation, Joint Commission standards and Medical Needs…