Adult, Youth, and Family Peer Support Services Assistant Director

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

Include the following:

• Provide licensed clinical supervision and billing oversight for Adult, Youth, and Family Peer Support Specialists in accordance with Kentucky Medicaid, CHFS, DBHDID, and 908 KAR 2:220 requirements.
• Ensure peer support services meet reimbursement supervision standards, including documentation review, service validation, and supervisory sign-off when required.
• Review, approve, and monitor Medicaid-billable services to ensure compliance, medical necessity, and accurate reimbursement.
• Assist the Director in program implementation, monitoring, and regulatory compliance under 907 KAR 15:020 and related statutes.
• Maintain supervision logs, billing attestations, and required documentation for audits, recoupments, and compliance reviews.
• Support interviewing, onboarding, training, and certification maintenance of peer support staff.
• Collaborate with compliance, finance, and clinical leadership to address billing issues, denials, and corrective action plans.
• Participate in internal audits and external reviews by funding sources.
• Serve as acting Director when delegated and ensure continuity of supervision and billing authorization.
• Develop on call schedules for mobile crisis teams.
• Uphold ethical standards, confidentiality, and professional licensure requirements at all times.
• Enable consumers to receive care based on ethical concepts, adhering to established standards of practice and engage in activities or behaviors that characterize professionalism.
• Refrain from assuming any duty that is unrelated to and/or interferes with the responsibilities of the position.
• Respond to emergency situations in a timely fashion.
• Demonstrate the ability to work effectively with other team members, as part of a multidisciplinary team, and independently, when necessary.
• Other duties may be assigned when necessary.

Qualifications: Must have a minimum of a master’s degree in a human services field from an accredited educational institution and a minimum of three (3) years of experience in behavioral health, recovery services, or peer support programming. Preferably have at least two (2) years of supervisory or program management experience in human services. Must hold an independent license in social work, psychology, counseling, or marriage/family therapy.

Must meet all Kentucky Medicaid supervision requirements to provide billing oversight and clinical supervision for peer support specialists.

Must hold or be eligible for certification as a Kentucky Adult, Youth, or Family Peer Supper Specialist and meet the criteria to supervise peer support specialists per 908 KAR 2:220.

Submit to and pass a criminal record check and a drug screening test.

Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00 am until 4:30 pm. Other times may be required with the job.

Required Job Skills:

• Oral and Written Communication Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Ability to exercise good judgment, tact, diplomacy and compassion when problem solving, handling conflict or in a crisis situation.
• Ability to complete record keeping in a timely fashion.
• Ability to get along with diverse personalities and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to work well with people of all races, backgrounds and needs.
• Knowledgeable of health promotion and disease prevention and differential diagnosis and disease management.
• Knowledgeable of Behavioral Health Concepts and how to incorporate concepts into practical application with health promotion and wellness education.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations must be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions, may be off-site from normal office location or placed at a Residential Program.

The noise level in the work environment is mild to moderate.

Environmental Data and Job Hazards:

• Hours of work are structured into 7.5 or 8.0 hour blocks of time but may be subject to irregular and/or flexible hours based on needs or demands.
• Position may require duties to include routine or reasonable anticipated tasks or procedures where there is a degree of actual or potential exposure to blood or other infectious materials.
• All staff are required to participate in yearly trainings regarding infection control and safety in the environment including hazardous waste and blood borne pathogens.
• All new staff must attend training regarding handling physical, verbal threats, acts of violence or other escalating and potentially dangerous situations including when police need to be summoned.