Director Clinical & Behavioral Services

Horizon House, a non-profit organization, has been widely recognized for its services as a provider of community-based behavioral health, intellectual disabled and homeless services in Eastern Pennsylvania and the state of Delaware. Each year, Horizon House provides a continuum of services at over 100 sites to over 4,500 adults with psychiatric or developmental disabilities, drug and alcohol addictions, and/or homelessness. A pioneer in the field of community-based rehabilitation, Horizon House is widely recognized for its innovative approach to the delivery of services in a community setting.

Currently, we are seeking a Full-time Director Clinical & Behavioral Services to work in our Developmental Services Division Split.

Purpose:

• Provide ongoing assessment and intervention to individuals with a diagnosis of intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health symptoms and maladaptive behaviors using individual and group processing formats.
• Be expected to supervise and conduct effective group modalities, including therapy/counseling, psycho-education, and skill development while actively supporting Rehabilitation Counselors' role as group co-facilitators.
• Provide supervision of Director Service Coordination, Nursing Leadership, interns from area academic entities and oversight of external clinicians supporting DS participants
• Be expected to provide leadership in planning and implementing responses to emergent behavioral crisis situations, including prevention/intervention strategies, coordination of necessary first responder and/or offsite services (e.g., psychiatric hospitalizations, crisis respite).
• Hybrid work with expectation of also traveling to points of service delivery throughout SE Pennsylvania
• Experience in use of Electronic Health Record, BI Microsoft Office Suite for record keeping, form development, and data base design and maintenance.
• Ability to work effectively with all levels of staff and interdisciplinary teams

Supervision received:

• Receives general supervision from the Vice President, Developmental Services

Supervision exercised:

• Provides supervision to Director Service Coordination and Clinical Nurse Supervisor
• Oversees the supervision of all clinicians involved with in-house services provided by external providers.

Qualifications:

• The candidate selected for the position of Director of Clinical & Behavioral Services in the Developmental Services Division of Horizon House will:
• Have a strong background in cognitive and behavioral psychology; experience with working with and leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Have received MA, MS, MSW with licensure; internship or doctoral degree from an APA-accredited clinical psychology program and have completed an APA-approved clinical psychology
• A current Pennsylvania license in clinical psychology; MSW licensure or Board Certified Behavior Analyst
• A minimum of 6 years' experience in management and clinical leadership with implementation of evidence based practices, program development, department budget, compliance and quality management and building and supervising teams, and project management.
• Oversee service coordination for all individuals served in Developmental Services Division
• Analyzes data to drive clinical decision and service revisions
• Support development of both clinical and direct support professionals through training and consultation
• has demonstrated the capacity to pursue new business development to expand and to improve existing services and to respond to changing needs of individuals served.
• Be a proven team player having managerial service experience in assuring compliance with state regulations and agency policies and procedures

Scope:

• Frequent listening, talking and writing
• Requires the ability to lift, carry, fold, kneel, reach, stack, stoop, go up and down stairs, and bend which may include direct intervention with participants.
• Must be available for scheduled emergency on-call service and will be required to carry a mobile phone during regularly scheduled working hours and scheduled on-call service. As essential personnel, may be required to report to work during emergencies including inclement weather.
• Varied work hours, including occasional weekend presence.
• Provide intervention with emergency client situations.

Horizon House offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefit package including: medical & dental, (9) nine paid holidays, generous paid time off, tuition reimbursement, retirement savings plan, voluntary tax sheltered annuity, transit benefit program, opportunities for advancement and more.


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