Clinical Director

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : Competitive Wage

Since 2000, Alongside has been dedicated to realizing its vision : spiritually and emotionally healthy Christian leaders equipped to foster healthy Christ-followers.

Its purpose and mission are unwavering. Alongside is a professional counseling ministry dedicated to helping Christian pastors, missionaries, leaders, and their families grow in personal wholeness, healthy relationships, and ministry effectiveness.

Alongsides core values include a commitment to

• Truth grounded in a biblical worldview,
• Integrity both individually and organizationally,
• Personal growth and maturity,
• Interdisciplinary professional competence,
• Excellence in the integration of Christian faith and practice,
• Care and well-being of families,
• Christian community as an organization and in our personal lives.

Alongside carries out its mission through intensive counseling programs in retreat-like settings. Program elements that interact catalytically with each other include the participant community (because the programs are cohorts), beautiful surroundings (inside and outside), psychospiritual educative seminars, small group counseling, and individual and / or couple counseling. A dedicated child, adolescent, and family therapist is available for children, teens, and parents. The child and youth programs are topically aligned with the adult seminars but presented at an age-appropriate level.

Purpose of Position :

The clinical director oversees the planning and delivery of all clinical services at Alongside, collaborating closely with the program director. The clinical director serves as chief steward of the clinical team by :

Reporting :

The clinical director reports to the executive director and serves as a member of the executive leadership team.

Position Responsibilities :

Personal Attributes and Competencies :

Professional Competencies, Capacities, and Training :

Qualifications and Experience :

Position Location, Environment, and other Requirements :

Location of work includes Alongside's campus locations (Richland, MI and Pennfield, MI) as well as periodic off-site responsibilities that require travel.

Alongside's primary means of carrying out its mission is through geographically centralized transformational retreats. This role requires on-site work at these retreat locations, with few exceptions.

The clinical director will also be required to represent organizational interests at events that require travel by ground and / or air in changing weather conditions and maintain a valid U.S. drivers license to operate a motor vehicle.

Additional requirements include :

Candidates must be able to talk, hear, see, stand, walk, navigate stairs, sit, reach, lift up

to 50 lbs., stoop, kneel and bend as regular parts of the role. They must be able to remain standing / sitting for long periods of time, use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, keyboard, and mouse, and meet close vision requirements due to computer work. Upon request, the candidate must consent to criminal background checks and pass post-offer drug screening.