Clinical Director - Behavioral Health

Position Summary :

The Clinical Director of BH is the lead position within the Department and is responsible for all aspects of organizational evaluation, planning and management.

The Director is also responsible for the staff recruitment, retention and ongoing staff development. Product line development, fiscal oversight and departmental positioning within the community are also key aspects of this position.

The clinical director monitors and evaluates the quality and appropriateness of social services and therapeutic services furnished.

The director has oversight over all clinical staff within the 4 inpatient units that fall under the BH and Addictions service line, as well as IOP and outpatient services.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Interface with psychiatrists, psychiatric APRNs, and interfacing physicians.
• Maintains effective relationships with external organizations that partner and interface with the department.
• Designs, develops and implements business initiatives and evaluates effectiveness.
• Maintain state and federal regulatory compliance standards at all times
• Ensuring staff follow established clinical policies and procedures
• Along with VP, establishing, maintain, and adhere to Performance Improvement indicators and plans for clinicians and masters prepared staff within BH and Addictions
• Ensuring adequate staffing coverage for IP, IOP, and OP social workers, therapists, discharge planners, care coordinators, and creative arts team
• Providing additional training / assistance to clinical staff. Being responsible for all education, training, and development needs for the teams
• Supervising, or assigning supervision of unlicensed staff on a daily / weekly / monthly basis
• Building structured programming from the ground up for the IP units and ensuring IOP programming is functioning appropriately
• Maintaining a strong milieu schedule on the IP units
• Auditing the quality of documentation of the clinical team in its entirety assessments, daily notes, group therapy, individual therapy, family therapy, care coordination documentation, discharge and placement planning documentation, creative arts and recreational therapist documentation
• Supervises the work of the entire clinical team on all labels of BH and Addictions care
• Establishing a weekly multi-disciplinary staffing plan for all patients on the IP unit. This treatment team meeting / staffing consists of nurses, clinicians, DC planners, and providers, along with the pt / family, and the pt’s treatment plan is discussed.
• Along with VP, be a liaison of BH and Addictions services all through the hospital. Maintaining good relationships via efficient throughput and workflows with all clinical and non-clinical hospital departments, administration, and leaders
• Respond to complaints, grievances, and involve self in investigations
• Responsible for maintaining program and clinical accreditation standards for the health center and maintaining BH and SUD standards of care
• Planning the staffing and scheduling of the team
• Working on timecards and payroll

Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree. Master’s degree required in SW / Counseling. PsyD / PhD Highly desirable
• Minimum 5 -7 years of experience
• Current IL Licensure as LCSW, Psychologist or LCPC
23 days ago