Director of Residential Addiction Services

Silver Hill Hospital•New Canaan, CT

1d•$300,000 - $350,000

About The Position

The Director of Residential Addiction Services at Silver Hill Hospital oversees and manages the Dual-Diagnosis Residential Program, a comprehensive psychiatric assessment and evaluation residential program focused on patients’ mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. The Director works with internal and external stakeholders to support safe, patient-centered, evidence-based, high-quality program delivery. The position combines clinical care and program leadership, including maintaining a patient caseload, providing clinical interventions, overseeing patient safety and crisis management, supporting staff, and identifying opportunities to improve services and workflows. The Director represents the program to referrers, business development staff, and hospital departments; collaborates with clinical, quality, patient experience, and people operations teams; and supervises and develops direct reports. The role also supports an inclusive, collaborative team environment and performs other assigned duties.

Requirements

M.D. degree.
Licensed in the state of Connecticut.
Board certified in Psychiatry.
Ability to function optimally in a stressful environment and remain calm in emotionally charged situations.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
Ability to move light objects weighing less than 20 pounds for short distances.
Ability to sit at a desk and walk around for different periods of time.

Nice To Haves

Management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Maintain a clinical caseload in accordance with requirements set by the Chief Medical Officer.
Represent the program and communicate its offerings to business development team members, referrers, and Silver Hill Hospital departments and teams.
Assess referrer preferences and communication needs, and ensure timely communication.
Provide consultation, psychiatric assessment, individual and group therapy, psychoeducation, clinical supervision, and other clinical interventions.
Work with clinicians and clinical leadership to ensure assessments are consistently high-quality and meet standards of care.
Help the team identify transference and countertransference dynamics and facilitate reflection to improve understanding of and responsiveness to patients.
Monitor patient safety and well-being, respond immediately to safety risks according to hospital policies, use the “Hot Spot” report when concerns increase, and arrange inpatient stabilization as needed.
Ensure team participation in daily morning huddles; report emergent issues, “Hot Spot” patient status, and census updates; convene huddles about emergent patient-care and patient-flow issues; and participate in safety rounds.
Oversee crisis management with residential staff and the Nurse Supervisor, including supporting and guiding residential counselors on patient care and safety concerns.
Identify opportunities for new, revised, or enhanced services and collaborate with the Chief Medical Officer and other stakeholders to implement programming or workflow changes.
Collaborate with the Patient Experience and Quality Departments on initiatives arising from patient and family feedback and regulatory or accreditation standards.
Foster cohesive teams and an inclusive environment where all voices are welcomed.
Build trust and camaraderie among team members and encourage respectful communication, open discussion, and clear, inclusive decision-making.
Recruit, interview, orient, and onboard new clinical staff, including contractors, in conjunction with the People Success Department.
Supervise and coach direct reports, support their professional growth and development, and complete their performance appraisals.
Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.