Director of Residential Services- LCSW

Job Description

Job Description

The Director of Integrated Therapeutic Services is responsible for all aspects of clinical and milieu treatment within the RTF. Through leadership, guidance, and support to middle management, the Director is responsible for the design, implementation, and oversight of policies and structures that support multi-disciplinary collaboration and remove barriers to efficient service delivery for the various disciplines including therapists, transitional coordinators, and milieu. The ultimate goal of the Director is to lead a program built on alignment and integration of clinical and milieu therapy.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for the vision, direction, coordination, and oversight of mental health treatment, transitions of care, and therapeutic milieu operations
• Serves as a key member of the collaborative leadership team
• Responsible for ensuring best practice strategies and procedures that meet performance expectations/metrics, and embed trauma-informed care into and youth & family treatment, youth-driven routines, and enhanced therapeutic elements of the milieu 
• Provides clinical and administrative supervision, including job performance evaluations of clinical and milieu leadership
• Oversees the integrity, design, and effectiveness of youth/family meetings as well as administrative meetings including, but not limited to, comprehensive treatment planning meetings, unit meetings, clinical meetings, discharge conferences, and case conferences
• Serves as a leadership liaison to residents' families
• Works in collaboration with the Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist, create, and implement clinical training standards with learning collaboratives and calendared plans, for all residential staff that serve as part of the treatment team Monitor and ensure compliance with accreditation, agency, local, state, and federal regulations/laws
• Actively Participates in quality improvement strategies, to enhance treatment, meet compliance standards, prevent crisis, reduce length of stay and improve overall outcomes for youth and families
• Work collaboratively with medical, psychiatric, and operational teams to integrate care and treatment throughout the facility

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Management and supervision of Clinical Supervisors and Unit Leaders
• Oversee and participate in staff performance evaluations, staff hiring/termination, staff assignments, supervision, training and progressive disciplines for staff as well as addressing and resolving staff concerns/complaints.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the agency policies and applicable laws.
• Prepare programs for audits, both planned and unannounced
• Solid comprehension of Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) where applicable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• LCSW, Psychologist, or Psychiatrist
• 5 years’ experience working with emotionally disturbed adolescents
• 2+ years’ supervisory experience

Company Description

We provide full-service Healthcare Recruitment solutions. We identify, attract, engage, and connect the best possible talent with quality healthcare professionals. We build teams, provide executive recruitment solutions and discover high-performance candidates on behalf of our client partners. Our strength lies in our proven recruitment strategies, leadership in the larger healthcare community (regional and national), and networking.

Company Description

We provide full-service Healthcare Recruitment solutions. We identify, attract, engage, and connect the best possible talent with quality healthcare professionals. We build teams, provide executive recruitment solutions and discover high-performance candidates on behalf of our client partners. Our strength lies in our proven recruitment strategies, leadership in the larger healthcare community (regional and national), and networking.

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