Clinical Coordinator; FL

Overview

The Clinical Coordinator serves as the shift supervisor and clinical lead for SUD and co-occurring/mental health inpatient services. This role ensures the safe, effective, and therapeutic operation of the unit during assigned shifts, including evenings, weekends, and after-hours. The Clinical Coordinator oversees the patient milieu, coordinates care across nursing, clinical, admissions, and direct support staff, manages high-acuity situations and crises, and ensures newly admitted patients are promptly assessed and their needs addressed.

They facilitate therapeutic programming, maintain regulatory-compliant documentation, and collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure all patient care needs are met while supporting staff development and operational excellence.

• Milieu & Clinical Oversight:
  Maintain overall management of the patient milieu, ensuring safety, therapeutic engagement, and adherence to treatment plans.
• Shift Leadership:
  Serve as the clinical lead for assigned shifts (including evenings, weekends, and after-hours), providing supervision and support to all clinical and direct patient care staff.
• Interdisciplinary
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with nursing, clinical therapists, admissions, direct care staff to coordinate care, address patient needs, and ensure continuity of services.
• Crisis Management:
  Respond to clinical crises, high-risk situations, or urgent patient needs, ensuring appropriate interventions and timely escalation to leadership when required.
• New Patient Admissions:
  Meet with new admissions during after hours and weekends, ensuring immediate needs are identified and addressed by the multidisciplinary team; facilitate smooth integration into the program.
• Therapeutic Programming:
  Conduct and/or oversee therapeutic groups, ensuring evidence-based, engaging, and recovery-oriented programming.
• Documentation & Compliance:
  Ensure clinical documentation is accurate, timely, and compliant with regulatory and organizational standards.
• Shift Operations:
  Coordinate staffing, assignments, and patient care activities; ensure all clinical services are delivered effectively and efficiently throughout the shift.
• Communication with Leadership:
  Maintain open and timely communication with leadership on call, providing updates on patient status, staffing issues, or other operational concerns.
• Patient Advocacy & Engagement:
  Monitor patient care needs continuously, facilitate team interventions for complex or high-acuity patients.
• Quality & Safety:
  Observe and guide staff to ensure safe, therapeutic, and recovery-focused environments; identify areas for improvement and implement best practices on shift.
• Training & Mentorship:
  Support staff development through modeling clinical skills, offering guidance, and reinforcing policies and procedures during shifts.
• Note:
  
  This description is not designed to cover every activity or responsibility; duties may evolve with organizational needs.

• Independent FL License (LMHC, LCSW, LMFT or Licensed Psychologist) or CAP or MCAP preferred. Minimum requirement: CAC, Registered Interns (RMHCI, RCSWI, RMFTI) or master’s degree in related field.
• Two years' supervisory clinical experience in a health/human service agency preferred.
• Two years' peer support, recovery coaching, or recovery specialist experience preferred.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to prioritize workload.

• Customer Service:
  Demonstrates concern for meeting internal and external customers' needs in a manner that provides satisfaction within available resources.
• Impact and Influence:
  Works effectively with and through others, including those without formal authority.
• Project Management:
  Coordinates diverse project components by balancing scope, time, cost, and quality.
• Communication:
  Communicates well both verbally and in writing; creates accurate and punctual reports; shares information and ideas; listens well.
• Work Environment:
  May work in professional offices, clinics, hospitals, or outpatient facilities; spends substantial time on their feet working with patients.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently uses hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-the-area and overnight travel may be expected.

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Health Care Provider
• Industries:
  Hospitals and Health Care

Recovery Centers of America is an equal opportunity employer.…