Clinical Director

Clinical Director

Columbiana, AL 35051

Overview

Level: Experienced Position Type: Full Time Education Level: 4 Year Degree Category: Health Care

Description

Position Summary

The Clinical Director assists with supervisory responsibilities for therapists in a specialized eating disorder residential treatment setting. The Clinical Director collaborates with clinical and leadership team members to support high quality program services through managing program schedules, client services delivery, team member coaching and professional development. The Clinical Director is also responsible for providing individual, group and family treatment services for assigned clients.

Relationships and Contacts

Within the organization: Maintains frequent and close working relationships with Management, Clinical Leadership, facility leadership, peers.

Outside the organization: May initiate and maintain working relationships with clients, families, referral partners, vendors and clinical partners.

Position Responsibilities

Essential Responsibilities

1. Provides compassionate and professional guidance to clients and referring professionals seeking eating disorder treatment.
2. Supervises and manages other licensed or licensed eligible clinicians.
3. Ensures programming is defined, coordinated, staffed and delivered in a manner that provides high quality care for clients.
4. Assists with hiring, coaching and developing clinical staff.
5. Acts as a treatment team liaison to family/support systems, as needed.
6. Oversees weekly treatment team meetings to coordinate care, communicate client needs and progress, and ensure consistent and quality care.
7. Provides ongoing training to all staff members to advance treatment skills, cultural sensitivity and compliance with licensure and accreditation standards.
8. Coordinates with the utilization review team to maintain coverage for clients at appropriate level of care.
9. Maintains assigned client caseload as primary therapist for assigned clients, to include individual and family therapy.
10. Assists in coordinating case coverage during team member absences.
11. Provides clinical oversight ensuring clinical program compliance with licensure and accreditation standards.
12. Represents facility at local, regional and national eating disorder-oriented events, as needed.
13. Supports admissions processes, ensuring team members create a welcoming and safe environment for clients entering care.
14. Works closely with business office and direct care support staff.
15. Updates professional knowledge and skill by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications related to facility Mission and population.

Additional Responsibilities

1. Functions within the guidelines of the facility's Code of Ethics and in accordance with corporate compliance.
2. Protects client safety and confidentiality ensuring security standards are always maintained.
3. Assists in promoting and ensuring that the mission, goals and objectives of facility are understood and actively supported by the employees.
4. Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Master's degree in social work, LPC-MHSP, LCSW, LMFT considered. Possesses working knowledge of psychotherapy, psychopathology, diagnostic assessment and related treatment interventions. Knowledge of evidence-based treatments and ability to individualize treatment approaches to meet each client's needs. Must be able to conceptualize and implement master treatment plan with fully developed problems, objectives and goals and monitor other clinicians to do the same. Licensed to practice in the state of Alabama. Three plus years of psychological experience. Experience in treating eating disorders is preferred.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to communicate with peers, clients, families, other facilities and/or vendors
• Performs duties that require the employee to sit or remain stationary for extended periods of time.
• Job performance will require the ability to move throughout the building and may require walking around facility grounds.
• While performing duties may be required to sit stationary for long periods of time.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to talk or hear, sit, stand, walk, reach, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, taste or smell.
• Ability to move up to 50 pounds.

Other Requirements

Position requires incumbent to have a valid driver's license and vehicle insurance.

Skill Competencies

• Demonstrates strong problem solving and analytical skills and the ability to use sound judgement.
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills, while building and maintaining professional relationships.
• Cultural Competence-continuously strives to provide client-centered, culturally competent care, recognizes and affirms cultural and linguistic diversity through therapeutic alliances and ongoing professional development.
• Screening and Assessment – engages clients and members of the client support system, as appropriate, in screening and assessment to develop individualized, client-centered, evidence-informed care plans. Leverages established screening tools for psychosocial, pain, domestic violence, substance use, self-hard, and distress assessments, among others.
• Care Planning and Intervention – develops and implements evidence-informed care plans that promote clinical excellence throughout the client-centered continuum of care. Care plans outline necessary steps, identified collaboratively with the care team, to achieve objectives identified in the biopsychosocial assessment. Leverage evidence-informed, clinically excellent treatment interventions.
• Advocacy – advocates for the needs and interest of clients and families to promotes clinical excellence through improved outcomes, access to care, and service delivery. Participates in quality improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing client outcomes and strengthening clinical service delivery.
• Interdisciplinary and Interorganizational Collaboration – promotes cross functional collaboration among team members and referral partners to support and enhance clinical service delivery and support.

Magnolia Creek provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, genetic information, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Magnolia Creek reserves the rights to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the organization desires. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The employment relationship remains "At-Will."

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