Clinical Director

Milwaukee - 335 W Wright
- Milwaukee, WI 53212

Salary Range:

$90,000.00 - $90,000.00 Salary/year

Position Type:

Full Time

Education Level:

Graduate Degree

Category:

Nonprofit
- Social Services

The Clinical Director provides clinical leadership, supervision, and oversight for the program to ensure the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based behavioral health services to individuals experiencing mental health and behavioral health crises. This position is responsible for maintaining appropriate clinical standards, supervising and supporting clinical staff, monitoring clinical documentation and service delivery, and ensuring compliance with applicable licensing, contractual, accreditation, regulatory, and organizational requirements.

The Clinical Director provides leadership in the development and implementation of trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, culturally responsive, and person-centered services. The position serves as a clinical resource for complex and high-risk cases and may provide direct clinical services as needed, including mental health assessments, crisis intervention, suicide and safety risk assessments, individual and and group counseling, treatment planning, and clinical consultation.

Essential Job Functions include those listed below.

• Provides clinical leadership, direction, and oversight for behavioral health services delivered within the program.
• Ensures clinical services are consistent with evidence-based practices, applicable standards of care, contractual requirements, and organizational policies and procedures.
• Promotes trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, person-centered, and culturally responsive approaches throughout delivery service.
• Provides clinical consultation and guidance regarding complex, high-risk, or challenging cases.
• Supports the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical programming, protocols, workflows, and service-delivery practices.
• Participates in interdisciplinary treatment planning and case consultation as appropriate.
• Collaborates with program leadership to identify clinical service needs, barriers, trends, and opportunities for program improvement.

• Provides clinical supervision, consultation, coaching, and support to assigned clinical staff in accordance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
• Provides or coordinates clinical supervision for staff working toward independent licensure when permitted by applicable state requirements and the Clinical Director's licensure.
• Supports clinical staff in developing competencies related to assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, documentation, and evidence-based practices.
• Participates in the recruitment, selection, orientation, training, and development of clinical staff.
• Monitors clinical performance and provides timely feedback, coaching, and corrective guidance when appropriate.
• Identifies training and professional development needs and assists in developing strategies to strengthen clinical practice.
• Promotes effective communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, professional boundaries, and ethical clinical practice.

• Provides clinical leadership and consultation for individuals experiencing behavioral health crises.
• Conducts or oversees suicide risk assessments, safety assessments, crisis evaluations, and other clinical assessments as appropriate.
• Assists staff in determining appropriate interventions, safety planning, referrals, escalation, and levels of care for individuals presenting with elevated clinical risk.
• Provides consultation regarding psychiatric emergencies, suicidal ideation, self-harm risk, behavioral escalation, and other complex clinical situations.
• Ensures appropriate documentation, communication, follow-up, and reporting related to significant clinical events.
• Collaborates with emergency services, hospitals, behavioral health providers, community partners, and other resources when necessary to support continuity and safety of care.

As program needs require, the Clinical Director may:

• Conduct comprehensive mental health and behavioral health assessments.
• Conduct suicide, self-harm, violence, and other safety risk assessments within the scope of professional practice.
• Develop and review individualized treatment and service plans.
• Provide crisis intervention, stabilization, and…