Director of Clinical Services

Position Summary:

The Director of Clinical Services/Chief Clinical Officer is responsible for directing the continuum of training and operations within the Clinical Department, which will include the development and implementation of employee training programs, patient workshops, and clinical operations.

This position is responsible for ensuring that the facility programs, schedules, and curriculum are evidenced based modalities and ensures positive patient experience and outcomes.

This position is a member of the facility leadership team.

Essential Job Functions:

The duties listed below reflect the general details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job as identified and shall not be considered as a detailed description of all work requirements that may be inherent in the position.


* Act on behalf of the organization in the overall clinical operation of the program.


* Direct and oversee clinical program operations, including budget management, developing marketing and strategic plans, and independent decision making for programs requiring clinical expertise.


* Develop, plan, and implement clinical program goals, objectives, personnel, resources, and equipment


* Creation and oversight of systems for clinical information management, including the flow of information to appropriate parties (i.e., Chief Executive Officer, Managing Members, court systems, attorneys, referents, etc.).


* Ensure compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations and accreditation standards for clinical programming including the management of incident reporting, upholding a culture of safety and eliminating environmental risk


* Assign new clients to program clinical staff.


* Coordinate, facilitate, or delegate (to appropriate personnel) that new clients are oriented to the program(s), primarily noting rules, schedule, and structure.


* Coordinate, facilitate, or delegate initial referent communication regarding new clients.


* Coordinate, facilitate, or delegate initial family communication regarding new clients.


* Provide clinical consultation, oversight of case planning, and care coordination


* Confirm charting procedures are followed.


* Coordinate, facilitate, or delegate (to appropriate personnel) ongoing communication with family, referent, and invested individuals regarding the client's care.


* Liase with UR and identify, monitor, coordinate, and secure program extensions when clinically appropriate and continually monitor individual client appropriateness for levels of care


* Oversee clinician's strategies for individual sessions and guide sessions towards relevant topics which help to direct client thought process towards extending the treatment experience.


* Bring to clinician's attention, situations indicative of an unproductive clinical process.


* Direct crisis intervention efforts and intervene as required


* Coordinate, facilitate, or de...