Program Director, Residential

Job Description

This leadership role combines clinical oversight, team development, and residential program operations, giving you the opportunity to directly shape the quality of behavioral health care for individuals with mental health and substance use disorders. You’ll lead a multidisciplinary team while maintaining meaningful involvement in clinical quality, compliance, and program outcomes.

Salary: $90,000–$95,500 annually

• Take ownership of a residential behavioral health treatment program with significant clinical and operational leadership visibility.
• Make a direct impact on services supporting individuals experiencing mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team through supervision, training, performance management, and professional development.
• Expand your leadership experience across clinical quality, operations, compliance, staffing, and financial performance.
• Work closely with senior residential leadership and key Connecticut agencies, including DMHAS, CSSD, DOC, DPH, and DSS.
• Remain connected to clinical practice while advancing into broader program leadership.
• Gain exposure to ASAM criteria, quality improvement, outcome measurement, regulatory compliance, and residential behavioral health billing.
• Receive a benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off, paid holidays, life insurance, EAP, flexible spending accounts, and a 403(b) retirement plan with employer match.
• Join an organization focused on person-centered treatment, stabilization, recovery, and connection to community resources.

• Lead day-to-day clinical and operational management of the residential treatment program.
• Provide and document individual and group clinical supervision for clinical and non-clinical staff.
• Oversee clinical documentation, chart audits, quality measures, regulatory compliance, and licensing requirements.
• Develop staff through training, performance evaluations, professional development, and corrective action when needed.
• Partner with residential leadership on staffing, program performance, budgets, safety, and significant operational issues.
• Participate in rotating on-call coverage and provide clinical coverage as needed.

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, Human Services, or a related field.
• Active Connecticut LCSW, LMFT, LPC, or LADC license.
• 3–5 years of supervisory experience in residential treatment programs.
• Experience with CSSD and DMHAS programs and populations is preferred.

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