Regional Manager Clinics 8588

POSITION SUMMARY: Directs regional clinic programs including the development, planning, evaluation, operations, and supervision clinic staff.

QUALIFICATIONS: Master's degree or Doctorate in Psychology, or master's degree in social work, or Clinical Counseling with applicable independent licensure, i.e. LCSW, LPCC, LMFT, LPP, or Licensed Autonomous Functioning in Psychology, and 5 years' experience in clinical services and management.

SKIL SETS: Highly organized, articulate, decisive and trustworthy. Other skill sets include but are not limited to exceptional computer skills, leadership and analytical skills.

JOB SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS:

1. Supervises employees, assigns client cases, completes performance evaluations, and approves timecards and appropriate leave.
2. Maintains a 5 day a week work schedule onsite, Monday through Friday, rotating between all clinical programs in your area.
3. Maintains a quarterly average of 25% productivity, providing individual, group, family, and crisis therapy.
4. Recruits, interviews, and recommends employee hires, and recommends follow up personnel actions (promotions, terminations, etc.).
5. Trains and orients new employees to departmental policies and procedures.
6. Performs intake assessments, diagnostic psychosocial evaluations, and performs or oversees psychological testing, guardianship evaluations, Hospital Discharge services, Mental Inquest Warrant evaluations, and other specialized services.
7. Engages in community outreach, consults with community stakeholders in order to address community needs.
8. Ensures that programs are in compliance with all applicable federal and state licensure regulations and standards.
9. Provides leadership for case staffing and administrative meetings.
10. Assesses administrative problems and initiates resolutions in consultation with appropriate clinical and administrative staff. Coordinates interfacing of clinic therapist with other agency clinical programs.
11. Assesses and identifies needs of physical facility to Operations/Support Services and IT directors.
12. Oversees compliance with payer source processes, responds to Compliance and Accounts Payable Departments as needed. Assesses payer mix of clientele, implements plan to match client payer with paneled provider(s).
13. Provide clinical supervision to related discipline or area of practices in accordance to relevant State Board requirements and Communicare policy.
14. Oversees and participates in training for therapist interns and other designated students.
15. Consults with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to develop optimal treatment plans for patients requiring behavioral healthcare treatment.
16. Develops and delivers community behavioral healthcare information and education, professional continuing education seminars and workshops to the mental health community.
17. Maintains regular contact with primary referral sources, serves as liaison to community leaders, referral development; organizes community resources as necessary for implementation of programs.
18. Participates and provides leadership in agency continuing quality improvement (CQI) activities.
19. Coordinates crisis response during routine daytime hours.
20. Works with Medical Director to ensure that the community has adequate access to prescriber activities.
21. Responsible for all service lines (therapy, case management, peer, substance abuse) and service modalities.
22. Ensures that the region possesses the optimal service array given resource and geographic restraints.
23. Performs other duties as assigned.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS:

1. Adheres to Communicare, Inc. policies and procedures.
2. Attends mandatory in-services and other training/educational programs as required.