Director of Clinical Services

JOB SUMMARY :

• The Director of Clinical Services is responsible for providing supervision to clinicians, case managers, and recreational coordinators for both the Residential Treatment Center and Acute programs.
• The Director of Clinical Services will ensure regulation and compliance for each referring agency, licensing agencies, and accreditation policies.

Additionally, the Director of Clinical Services will ensure continuing growth of clinical services to meet the therapeutic needs of the patients and residents while ensuring excellent customer service for both the referring agencies and the families.   ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties listed below :

QUALIFICATIONS :

Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. 7.  PHYSICAL DEMANDS  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.  The employee must occasionally lift and / or move a minimum of 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distant, and peripheral vision, color and depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.  The employee may occasionally be required to physically restrain clients, using authorized restraint procedures as a last resort for protection of client and staff. 8.  WORK ENVIRONMENT  The work environment for this position is a residential facility setting.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be exposed to clients who may ask inappropriate personal questions, display socially unacceptable personal behaviors, use profanity and sexually explicit phrases, make insulting remarks or threats regarding appearance, age, sex, or race, and exhibit defiance, dishonesty, and assaultive or self-destructive behaviors.  The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions, and may be subject to occasional local travel as required by facility needs.  The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.  Note :