Director - Outpatient Services

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Leadership team to develop. Strategize, and implement out-patient goals
• Provide regular updates to leadership team outlining status of program development objectives
• Foster and maintain relationships with vendors and community stakeholders
• Ensure clinical documentation meets both qualitative and quantitative standards
• Handles individual therapeutic cases and leads groups as directed by CEO
• Establish systems for auditing
• Work closely with Human Resources to ensure regular, consistent, structured training of new and established employees a well as other required trainings to meet regulatory and industry standards
• Attend and participate in meetings as directed by CEO
• Must have an understanding of diverse cultures
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Outpatient Program
• Responsible for licensing and maintaining Outpatient Program
• Responsible for appropriateness and effectiveness of services provided
• Responsible for providing clinical and administrative leadership, guidance and supervision of the program
• Leadership and program development
• Determines long-term strategy of the program
• In collaboration with staff, identifies program needs, goals, priorities and service gaps
• Ensures that Program goals are advocated and achieved
• As a member of the Leadership Team, ensures that Program needs and interests are adequately represented
• Provides leadership within the professional community, representing the needs and interest of the Program
• Works closely with other agencies to identify opportunities for collaboration and coordination of services
• Remains aware of trends, opportunities and challenges within the Program’s client population by networking and attending provider meetings.
• Manages Program staff and independent contractors
• Monitors staff’s clinical caseload
• Responsible for the Program’s budget
• Identifies staffing needs and maintains responsibility for ensuring that the program is appropriately staffed. This includes but is not limited to interviewing, development plans, performance improvement plans, performance goals and evaluations
• Works with therapist’s to ensure that caseloads are being met and program is meeting contract requirements
• Responsible for ensuring that the Program meets all professional, legal and regulatory requirements
• Continuous Quality Improvement goals and Quality Assurance standards
• Capable of leading or participating in clinical staffing
• Provides clinical direction, supervision and coordination as appropriate for professional and other treatment staff and consultants
• Able to provide crisis management, debriefing, and on-the-spot clinical consultation to clinical staff and supervisors
• Meet individually with Therapist and Contractors for clinical supervision as needed to ensure high quality clinical quality is maintained
• Attends leadership and clinical trainings relevant to the position

Secondary Job Responsibilities:

• Participate in process/quality improvement activities of the company.
• Keeps required trainings current.
• Attend management meetings as scheduled
• Performs other job duties as required.

The above description reflects the general duties necessary to perform the job and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the job.