Clinical Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Master's or Doctoral Degree in Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, Marriage & Family Therapy, or related behavioral health discipline.
• Current unrestricted professional license in Virginia (LPC, LCSW, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, LMFT, or equivalent).
• Must meet applicable Virginia requirements to provide or become approved to provide clinical supervision to residents or supervisees in the candidate’s professional discipline. Board-approved supervisor status at the time of hire is required.
• Minimum 8 years of progressive clinical experience.
• Minimum 5 years in a Director-level clinical leadership role
• Minimum 3 years supervising licensed behavioral health professionals.
• Demonstrated experience directing clinical programs or behavioral health departments.
• Demonstrated experience managing external partnerships and implementing behavioral health services within school systems, healthcare organizations, government programs, community behavioral health settings, or comparable institutional environments.
• Experience leading organizational change and program implementation.
• Experience developing policies, procedures, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Experience managing multiple clinicians across multiple programs.
• Demonstrated experience designing structured clinical training, professional development, workforce education, apprenticeship, residency, or competency-based learning programs.
• Experience managing complex, multi-phase projects with defined timelines, deliverables, performance measures, and stakeholder accountability.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience as a Clinical Director, Director of Behavioral Health, Director of Clinical Services, or equivalent senior leadership role.
• Experience managing grant-funded behavioral health initiatives.
• Experience working with public school districts.
• Experience scaling behavioral health programs.
• Experience working with telebehavioral health services.
• Experience developing comprehensive clinical curricula, training academies, apprenticeship programs, or graduate-level instructional content.
• Experience with learning management systems, instructional design, adult learning principles, or competency-based education.
• Experience developing and managing clinical department budgets.
• Experience implementing performance dashboards and data-informed quality improvement systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive oversight of clinical quality, service delivery, clinical risk, and regulatory compliance across all programs and service lines.
• Establish systems for monitoring documentation, treatment planning, client outcomes, clinical performance, and corrective action.
• Lead quality assurance, performance improvement, and clinical policy development.
• Supervise and develop Clinical Supervisors and other clinical leaders while providing consultation regarding complex, high-risk, or escalated clinical matters.
• Design and complete a comprehensive 16-month clinical apprenticeship curriculum organized by week, with defined learning objectives, competencies, instructional content, applied activities, supervision expectations, performance milestones, and required deliverables.
• Develop the full educational infrastructure necessary to operate the program, including facilitator guides, participant materials, training manuals, competency assessments, evaluation tools, progress-tracking systems, and remediation procedures.
• Establish a structured apprenticeship model integrating clinical instruction, supervised practice, documentation proficiency, professional development, organizational orientation, and readiness for increasingly independent clinical responsibilities.
• Coordinate the implementation, delivery, evaluation, and continuous improvement of the apprenticeship program in collaboration with clinical supervisors, organizational leadership, and applicable external partners.
• Ensure the apprenticeship curriculum aligns with organizational standards, applicable licensure and supervision requirements, evidence-based clinical practices, workforce needs, and contractual or funding requirements.
• Direct daily clinical operations, staffing capacity, clinical assignments, supervision structures, and escalation processes.
• Collaborate with administrative and human resources leadership on clinician recruitment, selection, onboarding, performance management, retention, and workforce planning.
• Establish and monitor systems for clinical productivity, caseload management, service access, documentation timeliness, and operational performance.
• Use clinical, workforce, utilization, and operational data to identify trends, resolve barriers, recommend improvements, and ensure contractual and organizational expectations are achieved.
• Serve as Virtual Peace of Mind’s senior clinical liaison with school districts, principals, district administrators, state agencies, healthcare organizations, government entities, referral partners, grant partners, and other strategic stakeholders.
• Represent the organization in implementation meetings, clinical planning discussions, partnership reviews, service-delivery meetings, and other assigned external engagements.
• Lead the clinical implementation of new contracts, programs, districts, grants, and service lines, ensuring that timelines, staffing, workflows, communication protocols, and deliverables are established and maintained.
• Develop and execute partner-specific engagement and improvement plans that strengthen utilization, service access, satisfaction, program performance, and long-term partnership stability.
• Address and resolve partner concerns related to clinical services, program implementation, workforce readiness, and service delivery.
• Participate in executive leadership, organizational planning, strategic decision-making, and the development of scalable clinical systems.
• Lead assigned strategic initiatives that strengthen clinical quality, organizational efficiency, workforce development, program implementation, and service growth.
• Use clinical, operational, workforce, partnership, and financial information to provide executive-level reports, recommendations, and corrective-action plans.
• Assist with developing and monitoring clinical department budgets, staffing investments, training resources, apprenticeship expenditures, and other assigned organizational resources.
• Serve as the CEO’s designee for day-to-day clinical operations, assigned partnership matters, program implementation, and clinical leadership decisions.
• Mentor, coach, evaluate, and develop Clinical Supervisors and emerging clinical leaders.
• Establish clear performance expectations and promote accountability, collaboration, employee engagement, and professional growth.
• Develop leadership-development and succession plans that strengthen the organization’s long-term clinical leadership capacity.
• Foster a culture of innovation, ethical practice, continuous improvement, and exceptional client care.