CLINICAL PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Job Description

Responsibilities

The Canyon at Santa Monica is a team of compassionate professionals whose mission is to create an environment of healing and transformation for each client seeking change. The Canyon provides the highest quality care throughout the entire process of treatment. We combine treatment for the mind, body, and spirit in a holistic therapeutic method. Our integrative, psychodynamic approach combines physical, psychological, spiritual, and science-based approaches.

The Clinical Program Director is responsible for the supervision of the clinical staff. He/she consults with the CEO, Medical Director, and Utilization Review Department as needed. The Clinical Program Director maintains close communication with the clinical staff, provides any information relevant to the program’s clinical operation, and assists in developing and modifying the clinical aspect of the program. He/she monitors documentation by the clinical staff to ensure that documentation is maintained at the highest level and is responsible to provide -hour management of the clinical function of the facility. The Clinical Program Director is responsible for ensuring that the programs protect the rights and confidentiality of all patients and provides each client with the required clinical care.

Benefits include:

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
• (K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its + Subsidiaries!

Qualifications

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining written objectives, policies and procedures, an organizational plan and a quality assurance program for substance abuse counseling services.
• Ensuring that the behavioral and pharmacologic approaches to treatment are evidence-based or based on universally accepted information to provide treatment services consistent with recognized treatment principles and practices for the IOP level of care and type of client served by the facility.
• Providing or ensuring, and documenting, that direct clinical supervision is provided at least one hour per week to all clinical staff, individually or in a group setting.
• Ensuring that substance abuse counseling services are provided as specified in the client treatment plan and coordinated with other client care services, if applicable, in order to provide continuity of care.
• Ensuring that the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of clients with co-occurring disorders is provided by appropriately trained and qualified clinical staff and that the clinical supervision of such staff is provided

Education and Experience

• Required education: Master's Degree
• Required experience: Substance Abuse/Mental Health Treatment - 3 years.
• Required license or certification: LMFT, LCSW, LPCC or other appropriate license or certification.