Job Description

Clinical Director Behavioral Health - $15K SIGN ON BONUS!

Pay Competitive

Location: San Ramon, California

Employment type: Full-Time

Job Description

Req#: 9620

About Us

Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. We have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. We offer industry-competitive salaries, career growth, skills expansion, student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Be part of a team dedicated to providing compassionate care based on authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love.

Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.

Responsibilities

The Clinical Director oversees all aspects of clinical operations, programming, and treatment services at their assigned program. The Clinical Director is responsible for fulfilling essential duties, whether directly or assigned to clinical leadership at the program. In collaboration with the Chief Clinical Officer and the National Clinical Team, the Clinical Director protects and enhances the Newport Healthcare brand, focusing on safety, fidelity, quality of care, clinical initiatives, and quality assurance and improvement efforts. The Clinical Director reports directly to the Executive Director, with a dotted line to the Chief Clinical Officer.

Essential Duties:

• Interview, select, and onboard new clinicians, ensuring their participation in clinical new hire orientation and position-specific trainings and shadowing.
• Facilitate or elicit support from the national clinical team with clinical trainings for specific clinicians or topics as needs are identified.
• Assign caseloads to ensure all clients and families receive therapeutic services while maximizing the clinical teams potential to maintain or increase capacity.
• Develop, implement, and periodically review clinical program schedule to ensure programming adheres to Newport Healthcares treatment model in compliance with state licensing, Joint Commission, and payer regulations.
• Facilitate treatment team meetings, individual and group supervision, ongoing clinical trainings, and components of All-Staff New Hire Orientation.
• Oversee the onsite admission process, including final approval of denials, conducting secondary clinical clearances, and coordination with the Admissions Department.
• Focus on client and family experience and successful outcomes through consistent communication and attention to family needs.
• Manage emerging crisis situations in the milieu and provide support as clinical back-up on-call.
• Coordinate with the treatment team and parental involvement, as needed, with ACA/AMA and administrative discharges.
• Coordinate peer reviews to be conducted within the timeline requested by utilization review.
• Drive quality assurance efforts and quality improvement initiatives as required.
• Audit medical charts monthly to ensure clinical documentation meets quality and submission standards, addressing deficiencies with clinicians and providing additional training if needed.

Qualifications

• Masters degree in psychology, counseling, or social work required.
• Licensed in Marriage Family Therapy, Counseling, Psychology, or Social Work required.
• Two years or more of relevant clinical experience with adolescents, young adults, and families, with mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring disordered populations.
• Minimum of one-year experience in a residential setting.
• Minimum of one-year supervisory experience.

Salary Range for this position: $110,000 - $140,000 based on education and experience.

Benefits include:

• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Company paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary STD/LTD
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401k
• PTO/Sick

Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.

Additional Details

Sign on bonus available.

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