Program Director, Mental Health (Odyssey)

Job Description

Job Description

Description :

During times when individuals or their families may feel there is no help, Emergence Addiction and Behavioral Therapies can help the most.

We are committed to providing ethical and professional services to the community during crisis and every day!

Are you looking for a dynamic clinical leadership position filled with opportunity? Emergence is the place where you will make a difference.

Our organization, through collaboration and integrity, strives to provide comprehensive outpatient treatment for mental health, substance abuse, and problem gambling.

We are looking for our next Mental Health Program Director who can absorb and honor our journey thus far while providing robust enhancements for the future.

If you have curiosity, drive, enthusiasm, and a strong desire to help others, we encourage you to apply. Emergence will provide you with ongoing training opportunities, amazing benefits, generous paid time off, space and time for professional development, and a supportive team to partner with.

We hold opportunity, collaboration, and inclusion as inherent characteristics of our core values.

The Program Director is responsible for researching, planning, developing, and implementing the operational management of an Emergence field office while supervising staff, overseeing treatment coordination, and building effective community relationships.

Essential functions

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Staff Supervision

• Interview and Hire
• Evaluate Performance
• Monitor performance, provide feedback, ensure expectations are met
• Ensure workload is appropriate
• Staff mentoring, coaching and corrective actions
• Manage award and incentives program
• Understand and encourage personal development of employees by providing access and resources to enhance knowledge, skills, and abilities within an employee’s scope of practice
• Supervises QMHPs working towards licensure

Treatment Coordination

• Monitors wait list, scheduling of assessments, and groups
• Grant tracking and reporting
• Works closely with Clinical Director to ensure quality of services
• Reviews client documentation including and not limited to individual assessments, treatment plans, and annual updates
• Works with other Emergence programs to provide integrated care
• Adheres to all applicable rules associated with confidentiality, privacy, and ethics

General and Fiscal Operations

• Ensures compliance and handles periodic audits and site reviews
• Reviews budget
• Approves program purchases
• Manages communication regarding physical office site maintenance
• Collaborates with administration regarding processes and procedure
• Drafts procedures and policies related to specific office functions
• Facilitates meetings
• Addresses elevated concerns (client and interoffice)

Community Relationships

• Builds, maintains, and develops relationships with local partners
• Monitors contracts, referral processes
• Increases staff awareness regarding community relations, processes, procedures

Competencies

• Interpersonal Relations : Builds effective relations through empathy, positivity, consistency, and follow through.
• Leadership : Builds and promotes trust, commitment, credibility and morale.
• Customer Service : Provides effective customer service through listening, observing, and analysis.
• Decision Making : Is able to determine, justify, and make decisions in a timely manner.
• Delegation : Provides clear, effective delegation.
• Inclusion Awareness : Recognizes and practices culturally sensitive differences and provides opportunities for inclusion.
• Adaptability : Shows grace and tact when adjusting to new situations.
• Respectful Workplace : Consistently demonstrates professional communication, discretion, and poise in the workplace.
• Conflict Resolution : Practices objectivity and integrity in handling disputes, disagreements and grievances.
• Ethics : Displays, encourages, and upholds high ethical standards

Requirements :

Required education and experience

• Master’s degree in social work or related field
• 2 years’ experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• CADC-I or ability to be approved for SUD treatment certification within the State of Oregon or the national equivalent.
• Four years of experience in social services of which at least two years in treatment of chemical dependency
• Knowledge of treatment methods and evidence-based practices integrated co-occurring disorders and trauma informed care
• Experience managing clinicians and staff

Preferred education and experience

• CADC-I or CADC-II
• CGAC
• Experience working with the LGBTQIA+ community and gender affirming care

Additional eligibility requirements

Must be available and willing to work occasional evenings

Work authorization / security clearance requirements

Must be eligible to legally work in the United States.

Affirmative Action / EEO statement

Emergence is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging.