Clinical Director

The Clinical Director’s functions include the provision of leadership, direction, and oversight of JourneyPure’s clinical offerings and clinicians and includes both clinical and administrative components of the program. The Clinical Director will report to JourneyPure’s Executive Director of the Middle TN Region. It is expected that management decisions will be made in collaboration with other JourneyPure managerial staff, including but not limited to: The River Leadership Team, Revenue Cycle Management, Utilization Management & Clinical Quality, Marketing, Medical, Clinical, and Facilities Management.

The Clinical Director may have direct patient care duties at times, and these fluctuate according to census and staffing needs. This role is to be filled by an individual with strong behavioral health, addiction, and mental health experience, and with a skill set enabling rapid development of impressions regarding operational and clinical decision making. A history of exposure to common medical issues seen in dual diagnosis patients will be beneficial, in addition to utilization review experience and experience working with a large, complex and fluctuating schedule.

The Clinical Director directly partners with a dedicated Business Development Associate to ensure meaningful referral relationships with the professional referent organizations that have long trusted the Center for Professional Excellence as a partner. The Clinical Director serves a vital role in maintaining program standards and helping to support these relationships so these partnerships remain strong.

The Clinical Director is responsible for ensuring the program and various program facilities comply with local, state, and federal regulations in all areas of oversight, as well as licensing and certification rules and regulations.  This includes maintaining and updating policy and procedure to reflect the most recent regulations and requirements and informing the Executive Director and Chief of Clinical Operations of all applicable regulation amendments and updating the physical and actual policy and procedure to reflect the most current regulations.

The role requires on-call availability for emergencies on nights and weekends.

Responsible To:

Executive Director, Middle TN

Supervision Through:

1. Facility monitoring activities

2. Direct observation

3. Staff meetings/in-services

4. Management meetings

5. Individual meetings as needed

6. Disciplinary and grievance procedures

7. Annual performance appraisal

Qualifications & Requirements:

1. Education - Master’s degree required in behavioral healthcare or related field

2. Experience - At least seven years of full-time experience in behavioral healthcare, and

five aggregate years of managerial experience

3. Certifications - CPR

4. Licenses - TN License in behavioral healthcare related field

Special Requirements:

• Ability to consistently demonstrate through conduct and communication the stability required to effectively manage an interdisciplinary team
  

• Must have highly developed interpersonal skills, with demonstrated poise, professionalism, tact, and diplomacy
  

• Good judgment, common sense, and successful handling of ambiguity
  

• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize workload and meet deadlines.
  

• Strong core clinical competencies, including clinical management and decision-making skills
  

• Must possess the following additional administrative skillsets:
  

§ Creative leadership style

§ Excellent verbal and written communication skills

§ Ability to delegate

§ Ability to problem solve

§ Ability to evaluate resources and services

§ Ability to maintain oversight of Clinical Quality Assurance efforts

• Knowledge of standards, health and public, legal and ethical issues, and consumer health care issues
  

• Knowledge of group dynamics and strong team building/team management skills preferred
  

• Effectiveness in recruitment, onboarding, training, evaluation, and retention of clinical, administrative, and support staff
  

• Knowledge in identified behavioral healthcare core and critical competencies
  

• Must meet all job competencies within 90 days of hire
  

Potential secondary duties may include:

• Quality assurance - conducting chart audits for clinical quality; real time coaching on improving clinical documentation
  

• Utilization review - making predictions based on medical necessity criteria; providing training on clinical data for completing authorizations for insurance companies
  

• Administrative and reporting projects as the need may arise
  

7. Age/Gender Specifics: Ability to work with male and female, adult, substance abuse/dual diagnosed population

Positions Supervised: Clinical Dept. staff

Working Environment: Office space will be provided by the facility with materials, equipment, and supplies necessary to perform assigned tasks.

Physical/Emotional Demands/Working Conditions: Work is sedentary. Must read, write, and speak English fluently. Occasional physical exertion (lifting 30 or more pounds, walking, standing, etc.) to support client weight in case of emergency or patient disability requiring assistance in walking, standing, etc. Must be able to see, stoop, sit, stand, bend and reach. Must be able to relate to and work with ill, disabled, emotionally upset, elderly, hostile people as needed. Must be able to communicate verbally and in writing with the medical, nursing, clinical and other staff. Must be emotionally stable and exhibit ability to display coping skills to deal with multiple duties and priorities. Risk of exposure to infections and contagious/blood borne diseases. Exposure to varying and unpredictable situations (i.e., client behavior). Subject to work schedule and shift change. Scheduled for “on call†duty, as needed

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
  
• Dental insurance
  
• Health insurance
  
• Health savings account
  
• Paid time off
  
• Vision insurance
  

Work Location: In person