Clinical Director

Description

Why You Will Love Working with Us!

The Aster Springs Richmond locations provide residential and outpatient eating disorder treatment with housing options in home-like settings in peaceful surroundings. With a team of highly credentialed, experienced therapists, nutritionists, and other team members, we ensure that each client receives whole-person and multidimensional care that helps them progress towards recovery. Our compassionate staff works with each client and their family to create an individualized comprehensive care plan that meets their needs. At Aster Springs – Richmond, we provide evidence-based treatment programs to adults of all genders, ages 18 and older.

What We Offer

• Collaborative environment dedicated to clinical excellence
• Multiple Career Development Pathways
• Company Supported Continuing Education & Certification
• PPO & HDHP Health Plan Options
• Flexible Dental & Vision Plan Options
• 100% Company Paid EAP Emotional Well-Being Support
• 100% Company Paid Critical Illness (with health enrollment plan)
• 100% Company Paid Life & ADD
• 401K with Company Match
• Company-Sponsored HSA, FSA, & DSA Tax Savings Accounts
• Generous Team Member Referral Program
• Parental Leave

How You will Contribute

The Clinical Director is responsible for the clinical and dietary functions of Aster Springs. The Clinical Director will be responsible for overseeing the clinical operations of the facility. Manages the clinical staff and ensures the optimal care of clients seeking longer-term behavioral health services provided by Aster Springs Treatment Center for Eating Disorders (AS).

Relationships and Contacts

Within the organization: Maintains frequent and close working relationships with clients, President/CEO, National Director of Admissions, Regional Director of Clinical Partnerships, Nursing, Milieu Director, RCS Staff, facility leadership, peers and vendors.

Outside the organization: May initiate and maintain working relationships with clinical providers, referral partners and vendors as needed and directed.

Essential Responsibilities

• Provide compassionate and professional guidance to clients and referring professionals seeking longer-term behavioral health services.
• Supervises and manages other licensed clinicians.
• Ensure programming is defined, coordinated, staffed and delivered in a manner that provides high quality care for AS clients.
• Hire, coach and develop clinical staff.
• Oversee weekly treatment team meetings to coordinate care, communicate client needs and progress, and ensure consistent and quality care.
• Provide ongoing training to all staff members to advance treatment skills, cultural sensitivity and compliance with licensure and accreditation standards.
• Provide oversight of utilization review process with personal involvement in difficult cases.
• Maintain client caseload and act as primary therapist for assigned clients, to include individual and family therapy.
• Responsible for managing and maintaining Joint Commission accreditation and providing oversight to other staff to maintain their compliance
• Represents AS at local, regional and national eating disorder-oriented events.
• Works closely with business office and direct care support staff.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications related to Aster Springs Mission and population.

Qualifications

What We're Seeking

• Master's Degree in Social Work, LPC-MHSP, LCSW, LMFT considered. Must be fully licensed clinician.
• Possesses working knowledge of psychotherapy, psychopathology, diagnostic assessment and related treatment interventions. Knowledge of evidence-based treatments and ability to individualize treatment approaches to meet each client's needs. Must be able to conceptualize and implement master treatment plan with fully developed problems, objectives and goals and monitor other clinicians to do the same. Licensed or eligible for licensure within one year to practice in the State of Virginia. Three plus years of psychological experience. Experience in treating eating disorders is preferred.

Other Requirements

Position requires incumbent to have a valid driver's license and vehicle insurance.

Aster Springs provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, genetic information, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Aster Springs Treatment Center reserves the rights to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the organization desires.  This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise.  The employment relationship remains “At-Will.”