Director of Clinical Services

NEW JERSEY REENTRY CORPORATION•Jersey City, NJ

About The Position

The New Jersey Reentry Corporation (NJRC) seeks a highly qualified Clinical Director to oversee and strengthen NJRC’s healthcare, mental health, addiction, and medical-care operations for court-involved persons, formerly incarcerated individuals, persons in addiction treatment and recovery, and veterans. NJRC is a statewide nonprofit reentry organization providing comprehensive wraparound services across eight sites. The Clinical Director will oversee NJRC’s clinical and healthcare coordination model across all sites, working closely with NJRC leadership, site directors, case managers, social workers, healthcare providers, hospitals, treatment programs, managed-care organizations, county agencies, and community partners. The position will focus on linking participants to appropriate medical care, mental health care, addiction treatment, psychiatric services, medication support, benefits access, and ongoing stabilization services. Many NJRC participants experience coexisting morbidities and complex health needs, including depression, anxiety, trauma, substance-use disorder, HIV, hepatitis, chronic illness, and untreated behavioral-health conditions. The Clinical Director will help ensure that participants are connected to care, supported through follow-up, and assisted in maintaining continuity of treatment.

Requirements

MSW
LCSW
Licensed Nurse Practitioner
Registered Nurse

Nice To Haves

Experience in behavioral health
psychiatric care coordination
substance-use treatment
reentry services
correctional healthcare
hospital or community health systems
Medicaid
SNAP
benefits navigation
clinical administration
social-work supervision
work with justice-involved populations

Responsibilities

Oversee and strengthen NJRC’s healthcare, mental health, addiction, and medical care coordination across eight sites.
Support medical screenings, behavioral-health screenings, clinical referrals, care navigation, treatment linkages, participant stabilization, medication continuity, and follow-up protocols.
Work with NJRC leadership, site directors, social workers, case managers, and participant-support staff to identify participant healthcare needs and ensure timely referral to appropriate care.
Assist participants with linkages to medical care, mental health care, addiction treatment, psychiatric services, HIV and hepatitis services, chronic-disease care, medication support, and stabilization resources.
Develop consistent documentation, referral, follow-up, and case-review protocols across NJRC sites.
Coordinate with hospitals, treatment programs, federally qualified health centers, behavioral-health providers, psychiatric providers, managed-care organizations, county welfare agencies, veteran-service providers, public agencies, and community-based partners.
Develop and maintain memoranda of understanding, referral agreements, communication protocols, and partner relationships to support participant access to care.
Guide NJRC staff in addressing coexisting participant needs, including depression, anxiety, trauma, substance-use disorder, HIV, hepatitis, chronic illness, psychiatric instability, and other medical or behavioral-health conditions.
Support clinical documentation, case review, quality assurance, data tracking, administrative compliance, and operational follow-through.
Help ensure that participants do not lose access to healthcare, treatment, medication, or stabilization services because of missed referrals, incomplete documentation, unclear follow-up, or lack of coordination.