Clinical Director and Program Administrator

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership of the outpatient behavioral health program, ensuring high -quality care, clinical outcomes, and regulatory compliance.
  

• Direct the development, implementation and continuous monitoring of comprehensive clinical services, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, individual/group therapy, and discharge/referral processes.
  

• Ensure the program operates in accordance with standards for outpatient substance use disorder treatment facilities, including but not limited to staff qualifications, personnel records and performance evaluation, client assessment and assignment of primary counselors, and ensuring 24/7 client access to emergency consultation or on -call staff.
  

• Oversee staffing: recruiting, hiring, credentialing/licensing verification, orientation, annual performance evaluations, and professional development for clinical and support staff.
  

• Foster a culture of continuous quality improvement: monitor key performance indicators, compliance audits, licensing inspections, documentation standards, and outcome measures.
  

• Collaborate effectively with executive leadership, regulatory agencies, referral sources, payors, and community partners to grow the program, drive referrals, ensure contract compliance, and support business development.
  

• Budget oversight in collaboration with finance/operations: ensure financial health of the program, support sustainable growth and optimal resource utilization.
  

• Ensure ethical, culturally competent, trauma -informed care, and that the program meets all regulatory requirements including client rights, confidentiality (HIPAA), risk management, and professional standards.
  

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