Director of Mental Health and SUD

Position Overview

Provides clinical leadership, coordination and supervision to multidisciplinary teams and programs. Scope of responsibility extends to mental health, substance use disorder, HIV/AIDS residential and outpatient service delivery.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Promote agency mission, purpose, and values in relationships with internal and external partners.
• Acts as the clinical authority of assigned programs and establishes clinical systems and standards of care.
• Supervises Program Managers
• Serves as the Administrator for any assigned CCLD programs.
• Provides back up LPHA clinical documentation duties in EHR in absence of assigned LPHA.
• Plans, organizes, and directs clinical services of assigned locations.
• Responsible for administrative functioning of assigned locations.
• Works with program managers and agency fiscal department in maintaining program budgets and supplies.
• Ensures program functions smoothly within the larger behavioral health system by building and maintaining relationships with community partners.
• Oversees documentation by clinical staff in collaboration with agency Quality Improvement and performs periodic audits of charts to ensure adherence to licensing and certification standards.
• Establishes and maintains a recovery culture and philosophy within the program.
• Aids in creating clinical and non-clinical program policies and procedures that address clinical quality and risk.
• Completes incident investigations and summaries for Chief Clinical Officer and Human Resources Department review.
• Responsible for supervision and performance evaluations of assigned program management staff.
• Participates in hiring, orientation and annual performance evaluations of program managers and ensures managers are providing supervision and evaluation to subordinates.
• Works with Associate Chief Clinical Officer in ensuring clinical programs are functioning at peak efficacy.
• Maintains active working relationship with agency intake departments to ensure client referrals and bed capacities at MH/SUD programs are maximized. Understands how bed days and units of services function within contracts and how they impact contract compliance.
• Participate in grant, program contract and other funding development.
• Participate in the management of clinically focused federal and other source related grants.
• Provides crisis response and intervention, including rotating on-call and after hours assistance, provide crisis consultation to families, public and legal entities.
• Prepare and submit monthly clinical status report of assigned programs to the Chief Clinical Officer.
• Attend meetings in community as a representative of our mental health and substance use disorder services.
• Additional duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• A minimum of four (4) years of experience in community mental healthcare/substance use disorder/HIV-AIDS or integrated healthcare setting. A minimum of three (3) years supervisory and/or management responsibilities.
• Self-motivated and directed, demonstrate strong relationship-building skills, have experience with infrastructure development and hold a high value for diversity.
• Demonstrated effective management and leadership skills with diverse populations. Has supervised management level clinical and non-clinical staff.
• In-depth knowledge of San Francisco community mental health/substance use disorder/HIV-AIDS available community resources.
• Grant writing and management experience.
• Ability to establish collaborative partnerships with supervisees, colleagues, and community organizations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of trauma-informed and other evidence based therapeutic principles/practices.
• Flexibility, adaptability as well as the ability to focus attention on workflow processes, procedures, budgetary guidelines, and documentation/productivity standards.
• Effectively manage time and meet required timelines.
• Exhibit exemplary customer service, compassion, and care in the execution of all duties and interactions
• Must be able to work flexible hours occasionally, including evenings and weekends.
• Must maintain First Aid and CPR Certifications.
• Must be available for Agency Rotating On-Call
• Must be in-person/in programs minimum three days a week

Preferred Qualifications

• Licensed or license eligible in California as an LCSW/LPCC/LMFT/Psy.D. or ASW/AMFT/APCC

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to navigate several flights of stairs many times a day.
• Must be able to lift 20 pounds.
• Must be able to physically respond to clients' needs in the event of a crisis situation
• Must be able to do extensive charting and documentation

Salary and Benefits:

This is a full-time, non-exempt position. PRC Baker Places offers a competitive salary plus medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their eligible spouse/children, as well as short/long-term disability, life insurance, employer-matching contributions to 403(b) retirement, generous paid time-off, and professional development.