Clinical Director

Job Title: Clinical Director

We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Clinical Director to join our team. If you are passionate about providing care to youth in need and want to join a top-notch team, please apply today! We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, vision insurance and a 401k that's top 3 % in the country.

Company: Youth Opportunity Investments - Silver Springs Youth Academy

Youth Opportunity is dedicated to empowering youth with individualized needs to achieve success and independence by establishing solid foundations of physical and emotional well-being, positive social and familial relationships, and education. Through a strong commitment to teamwork, leadership, and organizational culture, our employees are equipped and qualified to create transformative impacts in the lives of young individuals. At Youth Opportunity, we prioritize the investment in excellence for the growth and success of our employees and the achievement of the youth we serve.

Learn more about our culture at: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/964058972/1/

Job Type: Full Time

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance eligible after 60 days of employment
• 401k with 100% match up to 4% of your salary after 60 days of employment
• Paid Time Off and 7 Paid Holidays (for full-time employees)
• Tuition Assistance and Opportunities for Growth
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise, direct, and evaluate the work of master’s level clinical staff. Provide and/or arrange for their training as required.
• Ensure that therapy staff are trained in and adhere to the fidelity of evidence-based practices.
• Assist local management team through training, consultation and technical assistance in clinical or treatment-related subjects to staff of all direct-care departments.
• Organize and oversee clinical documentation of all diagnostics, and treatment planning, delivery and evaluation, ensuring that services meet treatment-related state, COA, and contractual requirements.
• Coordinate and oversee, in conjunction with appropriate management team members, the composition, scheduling, processes and content of multidisciplinary treatment teams.
• Provide oversight and supervision for any special-needs treatment programs (e.g., 7 Challenges, etc.)
• Provide diagnostic evaluation, routine individual counseling, or crisis intervention counseling, as required by standing procedure, treatment plans, or special circumstances.
• Participate on local management team to set and enforce local policy, develop and implement long-range planning, and monitor programmatic, fiscal, and human resources aspects of the overall facility and schedules applying to management team members. May require on-call clinical duty.
• Participate on local quality improvement committee, acting as liaison between committee and management team.
• Serve as Designated Mental Health Authority for facility, where required by contract or state or local requirement. The services for which the Coordinator will serve as authority may include Mental Health Overlay Services (MHOS), Substance Abuse Overlay Services (SAOS), Intensive Mental Health Services, or any others as required.
• In Florida, or any program providing Overlay Services, the Clinical Director will comply with the following duties:
• Conduct interviews with clients to develop the individual Mental Health Treatment Plan
• Review and sign the psychosocial assessment if needed
• Review and sign the behavioral health treatment plan
• Provide at least four hours clinical supervision per month
• Provide assessments and individual or family therapy if more extensive services are needed
• Provide oversight and coordination of MHOS/SAOS
• Conduct fact-to-face interview to develop an individual treatment plan (DJJ)
  
  

Other Duties Include, But Not Limited To

• Maintain a high standard of role model behavior for youth.
• Participate in ongoing in-service training and development activities as required.
• Report any acts, incidents or conditions that reflect the possibility of inappropriate youth-to-youth or staff-to-youth relationships.
• Report any use of physical force and all unusual incidents per YOI policy and state guidelines.
• Perform other duties as assigned or needed.
• Reports to: Facility Administrator
• Directly supervises: Licensed Mental Health Therapist, Master's level Therapists, and Recreational Therapist
  
  

Requirements

• Education – A Master’s degree, from an accredited university or college in the field of counseling, social work, psychology, rehabilitation, special education, or in a related human services field, is required. State license as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, or Licensed Mental Health Counselor, or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, or Clinical Psychologist required. Coursework or practicum experience in group work, family therapy, sexual offender treatment and/or substance abuse treatment preferred.
• Experience - Two years’ experience in direct-care delivery of treatment or clinical services, plus one year of supervisory experience preferred. Incumbents working in a residential DJJ program should have three years’ experience working in an offender (adult or juvenile) treatment program. Experience with group work modalities, residential settings, child welfare, and substance abuse treatment preferred.
• Skills - Good organizational skills, analytic ability and attention to detail are required, as are training and counseling skills. Must be able to work effectively with diverse groups of staff and residents in a participatory management environment.
• Physical Demands - Ability to periodically work extended hours and to respond to mental health crises at varied hours within and outside a standard work week. Ability to assist staff in restraining youth in accordance with approved behavior management techniques. PAR certification preferred. Ability to travel to and observe youth groups in primitive campsite settings. Must be free of communicable diseases as required by the appropriate state and to the extent that this knowledge is attainable under federal law.
• Other - Must meet state criminal background check requirements. Must maintain employment eligibility status.
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer: Youth Opportunity Investments is an equal opportunity employer and affords equal opportunity to all associates and applicants without regard to race, color, region, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic data, or any other legally protected status.