What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Director position at New Friends New Life?
New Friends New Life restores and empowers formerly trafficked girls and sexually exploited women and children. By providing access to education, job training, interim financial assistance, mental health, and spiritual support, New Friends New Life helps women and children overcome backgrounds of abuse, addiction, poverty, and limited opportunities.
Position Overview
The Clinical Director oversees all clinical direct services programs for the teens and women served by NFNL. This position also carries a caseload for direct mental health counseling and treatment.
Reporting Relationship
The Clinical Director reports directly to the Chief Programs Officer.
Job Responsibilities
- Oversees all clinical direct services programs and services for NFNL teen and adult members.
- Supervises the Clinical Manager and ensures the supervision and development of the agency’s Mental Health Clinicians meets the agency’s high programmatic and ethical standards.
- Ensures the utilization of evidence-based treatment (DBT, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) in the treatment of members with chronic and complex trauma histories.
- Carries a caseload and provides individual and group therapy.
- Maintains accurate notes and documents all sessions and correspondence with clients.
- Maintains relationships with outside providers in the interest of continuity of care for each client on your caseload.
- Attends all staff meetings, direct service meetings, supervision, consultation groups, and trainings and leads the weekly clinical staffing meetings.
- Assists the Chief Programs Officer with the collection and analyzation of programmatic data.
- Performs other duties as requested by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Programs Officer.
Required Job Qualifications, Education, Skills:
- Master’s degree in Counseling, Social Work, Clinical Psychology, or related field
- 5 years fully licensed counseling experience with high risk populations requiring trauma care
- Licensed in the state of Texas: LPC, LPC-S, LCSW, LCSW Supervisor
- EMDR and DBT experience
- Proven experience in working with vulnerable and high risk populations
- Strong leadership skills and experience managing teams
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- Strategic thinker
- Ability to maintain a professional demeanor in all circumstances
Required:
- Ability to make professional evaluations, decisions, and recommendation for treatment planning and implementation.
- Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
- Excellent time management skills; organized and able to prioritize.
- Extensive knowledge of multicultural issues, vulnerable populations, trauma and power/control dynamics as they relate to the field of counseling and social work.
- Ability to oversee administrative aspects of a clinical service delivery program
- Ability to develop, organize, facilitate, and evaluate programs
- Ability to effectively manage and lead professional licensed staff
- Maintain guidelines set by HIPAA.