Clinical Program Director

Mohawk•Albany, NY

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Program Director establishes, administers, and directs the Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) Program, a self-contained clinical team that provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to sixty-eight clients with serious mental illness and who are involved with the criminal justice system. This role involves overseeing daily clinical operations, managing a multidisciplinary team, and functioning as a practicing clinician. The position ensures high-quality psychiatric treatment, supervises documentation, and provides direct clinical services including home visits, crisis intervention, and on-call duties. It emphasizes operationalizing evidence-based practices, promoting collaborative communication, and ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations. The role also includes budget participation, monthly billing, and client transportation.

Requirements

NYS Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Mental Health Counselor required.
Three years’ experience working with individuals with Serious Mental Illness (SMI).
Experience with the criminal justice systems and an understanding of how the service recipients are impacted.
Must have a strong commitment to the rights and ability of each person living with a mental illness to make their own decisions.
Must be able to effectively work with all people and demonstrate skills and competence to establish supportive and trusting relationships with all individuals.
Must uphold clients’ rights, personal preferences in treatment and treat everyone with respect and dignity.
A valid and insurable NYS driver’s license.
Must have own vehicle to use for business purposes.

Nice To Haves

Experience working on an ACT or FACT Team, preferred.
Three years of supervisory and management experience in a clinical setting and experience providing community-based clinical treatment, preferred (e.g., mobile crisis, FACT, etc.).
A combination of strong supervisory skills and clinical experience will be considered.

Responsibilities

Overseeing the direct day-to-day clinical operations including staff scheduling, morning meetings, coordination among staff members, and evaluation of treatment activities to ensure excellence of care to meet the individuals ever changing needs.
Hires, supervises, and evaluates a multidisciplinary team ensuring high quality psychiatric treatment that is goal-directed, respectful, meaningful and client driven.
Functions as a practicing clinician as part of the team.
Supervising program documentation and case record management assuring compliance.
Regularly reviewing assessments, service plans, progress notes, and other records kept and written by staff.
Providing the full spectrum of clinical treatment and rehabilitative support services to individuals served by the team.
This includes home, community and office visits, crisis intervention, completing clinical documentation, and participating in on-call duties.
Operationalizing evidence-based practices including using a harm reduction, person-centered, recovery-based approach while instilling hope in those served.
Promoting effective and collaborative communication between co-workers, providers, external providers, regulators, and funders.
Ensuring all services are delivered in a manner consistent with agency procedures and all related State and Federal regulations (NYS Office of Mental Health, Department of Health, and Medicaid).
Ensuring all medication processes and procedures are followed.
Participating in the development of an annual budget, monitoring expenditures, and adhering to budgetary guidelines.
Completing monthly billing for services.
Providing transportation to clients when necessary.
In addition, an employee must be approved to drive agency and personal vehicles for business purposes.