Director of Clinical Services

PASADENA VILLA MICHIGAN LLC•Battle Creek, MI

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Pasadena Villa is seeking a Director of Clinical Services to provide clinical leadership and oversight of program service delivery. This role involves direct supervision of clinical teams and leadership support for clinical support teams, ensuring high-quality program service delivery and ongoing clinical skill development. The Director will lead program and clinical quality improvement initiatives, provide education and training, and foster clinical leadership development. A key aspect of this role is ensuring the delivery of clinically excellent, client-centered care, coaching team members in communication, and effectively articulating the company's mission, vision, and values to external partners.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Psychology, Social Work or closely related field
Minimum of 5+ years of experience within a behavioral healthcare setting
LMSW, LPC, LMFT
Licensed to practice and provide clinical supervision in the State of Michigan
Valid driver’s license, vehicle insurance and acceptable driving record
Clearance of TB test and any other mandatory state/federal requirements
Current CPR and First Aid certification

Nice To Haves

Experience in treating Mental Health/SUD is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides compassionate and professional guidance to clients, families and referring partners seeking clinically excellent Mental Health treatment services.
Ensures clinical residential programming schedules are defined, coordinated, staffed and delivered in a manner that provides high quality clinical care with an emphasis on client safety.
Leads continuous quality improvement for clinical programming.
Provides clinical supervision to associate level and licensed therapists in individual and group settings, offering guidance and feedback to motivate and positively develop the clinical team.
Works closely with the clinical and direct care teams to ensure a safe, high quality, therapeutic environment is consistently maintained.
Provides ongoing training to all staff members to advance treatment skills, cultural sensitivity and compliance with licensure and accreditation standards.
Oversees weekly treatment team meetings to coordinate care, communicate client needs and progress, and ensure consistent and quality care.
Communicates with referral sources and families, keeping them informed of treatment goals, plans and progress.
Collaborates with utilization review team members, ensures clinical documentation meets standards necessary to meet client’s level of care, advocates for difficult cases, as needed.
Responsible for ensuring clinical programming and documentation adheres to licensure, accreditation, and payor contract standards, provides oversight to other staff to maintain compliance.
Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications related to specialized treatment modalities and population served.
Functions within the guidelines of the facility’s Code of Ethics and in accordance with corporate compliance.
Represents the program within the community at local, regional, and national events, as requested.
Assists in promoting and ensuring the organization’s values, mission, goals and objectives are understood and actively supported by the employees.
Performs other duties as assigned.