Clinical Director

Job description

Overview:The Living Room is a private substance abuse treatment provider offering Partial Hospitalization (PHP), Intensive Outpatient (IOP), and Outpatient (OP) levels of care. The Living Room is a compassion-based model of recovery. We offer our clients the opportunity to experience a level of understanding and heart-felt care that combined with evidence based practice is unlike anything currently being offered in the industry. Our approach aims to educate, heal and empower. As an owner operated facility, our team is wholly dedicated to living lives of recovery, service and unity, aimed at softening hearts, strengthening bodies and reawakening the minds of our clients. While accountability and responsibility are the cornerstones of our treatment approach, The Living Room is a shame-free facility. As recovered alcoholics and addicts ourselves, we recognize the VALUE of the confusion and pain that so often drives addiction. Every member of our team is a shining example of the beauty that comes from human suffering. Through our combined experience, both professional and personal, we believe that it is vital for treatment providers to assist their patients in cultivating the courage and compassion necessary for living a meaningful and joyful life. Too often treatment centers overlook the power of experiential learning and instead rely on the sharing of information alone. The living room is first and foremost a life changing experience for our staff and clients equally; a living and breathing organism that like all things will change with time.

Our full range of therapeutic services are available to participants of all programs, including individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, substance abuse counseling, meditation, yoga, exercise and nutritional coaching. All services are rooted in the compassion-based model of behavior change that Dr Leming has developed over the course of his 30 year career.

We are confident that this will help keep our patients engaged in the treatment and recovery process and significantly improve patient retention and overall patient outcomes.

We are looking for a Clinical Director that is excited to create, organize and oversee our clinical program. The Clinical Director will be responsible for building our clinical program in concert with Dr Leming from the ground up, willing to learn with and from him. The Clinical Director will utilize their expertise and passion to help bring our vision to life. The Clinical Director must possess excellent management, leadership and mentoring skills, combined with creativity and a genuine curiosity for the experience of life. We are looking for someone who is an outstanding communicator and problem solver, approaching both with compassion, a curious mind and an open heart . We require a deep respect for policies and ethics and are looking for a leader that can inspire that in others.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

The Clinical Director of substance abuse counseling services will be responsible for the direction, provision and quality of substance abuse counseling services, including the following:

• Developing and maintaining written objectives, policies and procedures, an organizational plan and a quality assurance program, reviewed by the administrator, for substance abuse counseling services
• Ensuring that the behavioral and pharmacologic approaches to treatment are evidence based or based on objective information to provide treatment services consistent with recognized treatment principles and practices for each level of care and type of client served by the program
• 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, with group supervision not to exceed 50 percent of supervision time
• 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 staff is provided
• Working with the Chief Executive Officer to audit all medical billing reports. Ensuring ethical and accurate billing for services provided
• Assisting in developing and maintaining written job descriptions for substance abuse counseling personnel and assigning duties to said personnel
• Assessing and participating in staff education activities and providing consultation to program personnel
• Providing orientation to and evaluation of new counseling staff prior to assignment of counseling responsibilities
• Ensuring that all counseling staff are properly licensed or credentialed in accordance with N.J.A.C. 10:161B-1
• Participating in the identification of quality care indicators and outcome objectives and the collection and review of data to monitor staff and program performance
• Participating in planning and budgeting for the provision of substance abuse counseling services
• Ensuring that clinical staff are being supervised by the appropriately credentialed staff
• Direct provision of individual and group counseling services to clients when needed

Qualifications:

• A New Jersey licensed psychologist who possesses a Certification of Proficiency in the Treatment of Alcohol and other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders from the American Psychological Association, College of Professional Psychology, http://www.apa.org/practice/index.aspx, or is an LCADC
• A New Jersey licensed clinical social worker, who is a certified clinical supervisor by The Certification Board, http://certbd.org/site/wp-content/uploads/Certified-Clinical-Supervisor-application.pdf, or is an LCADC
• A New Jersey licensed professional counselor, or licensed marriage and family therapist, who is a certified clinical supervisor by The Certification Board, http://certbd.org/site/wp-content/uploads/Certified-Clinical-Supervisor-application.pdf, or who is an LCADC
• A New Jersey licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor who, in addition, holds a Master's degree recognized by the New Jersey Board of Marriage and Family Therapy Examiners, Alcohol and Drug Counselor Committee, Division of Consumer Affairs, New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety as meeting the educational requirements set forth in N.J.A.C. 13:34C-2.2(b)1
• A New Jersey licensed physician, certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine, or a Board-certified psychiatrist; or a New Jersey licensed advanced practice nurse who is a certified clinical supervisor by the Certification Board, h http://certbd.org/site/wp-content/uploads/Certified-Clinical-Supervisor-application.pdf, or is an LCADC.

Incumbents with a Master's degree in counseling or social work not possessing any of the qualifications specified in (a) above shall obtain LCADC status by December 1, 2022, or another health professional license that includes diagnostic and supervisory authority for work of an alcohol and drug counseling nature.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities. In the course of performing this job, one typically spends time sitting, walking, standing, driving, listening, speaking, typing, reading and writing. In addition, an employee may be asked to carry or lift up to 20 lbs.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $100,000 - $150,000 not including performance based bonus structure

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off

Medical specialties:

• Addiction Medicine

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift with flexibility
• Day shift (potential of evening opportunities)
• Monday to Friday (potential Saturday opportunities)
• On call

Education:

• Master's (Required)

Experience:

• Clinical Director: 2 years (required)
• Addiction counseling: 2 year (required)
• Leadership: 2 year (Required)
• Medical Billing supervision: 2 year (required)

Work Location:

• One location

Work Remotely:

• No

Work Location: One location