Treatment Director

LG Legacy for Kids comprised of three separate campus’s Turning Point Children’s Social Services, Gold Star Academy and Rob & Simons’ Hawthorne House provides quality care for children who have experienced traumain the State of Texas. Join us in creating a village of nurturing and quality care for our children. Our mission is to ensure the delivery of quality services and advocacy for our children.

Ensure the individualized quality care to children in an environment which promotes their rights, dignity and freedom of choice, implements programs and services as specified in the children’s individualized service plan.

The Treatment Director will be responsible for providing leadership for the overall treatment program, including responsibility for ensuring adherence to the treatment model – Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) by all levels of staff; that includes ensuring comprehensive ongoing training, coordination and coaching of TBRI. Leads the admissions and treatment teams. clinical responsibility may include a small case load as seems appropriate.

Responsibilities:

• Clinical oversight and treatment planning by develop, implement and monitor individulized plans for all resents
• Ensure treatment goals align with diagnoses and behavioral health needs
• Lead regular clinical reviews and ensure therapeutic interventions are evidence-based and trauma-informed.
• Provide supervison to therapists, clinical support and direct care staff
• Conduct regular training on crisis intervention, behavior managment and trauma informed care
• Foster professional development and ensure staff comply with licensing requirements
• Adheres to the requirements and regulations as set forth by the Texas Department of State Health Services and Texas State Board of Examiners based on clinical licensure
• Adheres to all current federal & state laws, as well as to Policies and Procedures set forth by the company including the safeguarding of confidential healthcare information and compliance with the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Reports suspected incidents of child abuse or neglect to the Administrator
• Reports serious incidents and updates to caseworkers and Administrators
• Notifies licensing of reportable incident to include notifying Administrator
• Establishes relationships and communicates with the clients/children, caseworkers/probation officers, family members and staff
• Maintains professional licensure ensure good standing based on licensing requirements
• Maintains all training requirements for licensure
• Attends staff/agency meetings as required

Program:

• Ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements of the therapeutic process
• Supports the Program Administrator with therapeutic program implementation
• As part of senior staff makes recommendations for program improvements
• Develops therapeutic milieu tailored towards individual treatment needs with structured daily routine and professional level therapeutic services
• Supervises Designs individualized service plans with multi-disciplinary team of professionals who are qualified to address the child’s individual needs
• Provides clinical training to staff to support treatment model needs
• Participates in the review of potential new clients for admission, reviews psychological assessments and treatment history files, and provides input to Administrator
• Assists the Administrator and other professionals in short and long-term planning
• Reports to the Administrator (or other administrative team members) as necessary regarding support services, personnel issues
• Develops professional relationships with other peers
• Attends meetings and trainings as required
• Oversight of the overall treatment program, including clinical responsibility for the management of all LG Legacy for Kids RTC therapeutic interventions
• When needed perform Professional Level Service Provider activities as defined in Minimum Standards for GROs
• Makes reports of suspected incidents of child abuse, neglect or exploitation to the Administrator and when deemed necessary the Child Abuse Hotline

Clients:

• Leads the admissions team in developing the initial diagnostic assessment on all residents to determine treatment needs, as…