Mount Prospect Academy
Clinical Director (Director) - Job Description
Reports to: Executive Director
Salary: up to $80,000
SIGN-ON BONUS: $5,000
Location: Warren, NH & Pike, NH
The Clinical Director will be responsible for clinical oversight of the residential community at our Warren, NH program and our Pike, NH campus. Specifically, the Clinical Director’s role is to provide supervision and support regarding the initial and ongoing case management/clinical process for the Milieu Clinicians and Permanency Coordinators. The Clinical Director will also work directly with residential leadership and faculty in supporting a milieu environment that is strengths-based and trauma-informed. The Clinical Director will continue to research current evidence-based practices to support all identified treatment and assessment options that are being provided to referred clients and families. Lastly, the Clinical Director works to train academic, clinical/permanency and residential faculty on clinical outcomes related to current behavioral presentation and history. Responsible for supervising staff, providing direct care services as necessary, quality assurance of documentation, crisis intervention support, and rotating on-call duties for administrative issues and crisis response.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Provide support and supervision of program clinicians.
- Develop, train and implement curriculum for therapeutic groups.
- Ensure compliance with best practices, MPA policies, state and federal regulations, certifications, and individual requirements of various funding sources.
- Motivate clinical team through training, observation-based feedback, guidance, and role modeling by engaging with clients in a meaningful way in individual and group settings.
- Assist in the development of individual treatment plans in collaboration with program clinicians, students, their paid and natural supports, youth counselors and others.
- Work to develop program staff, improve interdepartmental communication, ensure proper implementation of treatment plans and general clinical programming.
- Facilitate in-service training with clinical personnel and staff on a regular basis to include at the time of hire, monthly, quarterly, annual and when requested.
- Provides emergency on-call support and intake response services.
- Responsive to staff needs and assists with developing positive team morale and culture.
- Carry an active caseload of at least 2-3 clients at all times.
- Works with the residential team to incorporate new & meaningful activities into daily schedules.
- Monitors Clinical checklists for completion of daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly tasks.
- Meets with residential leadership (Program Manager, Assistant Manager, Team Leads) monthly to review clinical performance and provide guidance when necessary.
- Provides regularly scheduled formal opportunities for professional development of staff.
- Participates, trains, and supports staff in therapeutic crisis intervention.
- Respond to program emergencies on short notice and cover shifts in the event there are staff shortages, as well as participating in the on-call rotation.
- Ensure timeliness and quality of all in-house documentation (incident reports, progress notes, and milieu reports) as well as documentation required by DHHS, DOJ, DJJ, DPD and other appropriate stakeholders.
- Participates in intakes, safety and treatment planning, assists as necessary with family visits and discharges.
- Provides leadership in the absence of Executive Director, Program Manager, Assistant Program Manager, Team Leads or Sr. Youth Counselors.
- Works in collaboration with the residential team to ensure student success.
- Works in collaboration with the School to ensure student success.
- Provides formal supervision to clinical staff monthly and annually.
- Use evidence-based therapeutic techniques to administer psychological assessments.
- Can serve as Prescribing Practitioner per state regulation guidelines to support.
- Ensures duties and responsibilities are completed in a professional manner.
- Attends appropriate meetings as directed.
- Performs other job-related projects and activities as requested or directed.
- Maintains a safety conscious mindset.
- Ensures continuous communication with students, staff and clinical supports.
- Brings a positive attitude to promote strong and encouraging work environment.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- 3-5 years of experience working with emotionally or behaviorally intensive individuals.
- Master’s Degree or higher in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling or a related field.
- Licensed in New Hampshire as a LMHC, LICSW, LMFT, Ph.D. or Psy.D.
- Valid driver’s license & 21+ years of age.
- Satisfactory completion of background and applicable pre-employment checks.
Mount Prospect Academy (MPA) assures equal opportunity and public access and, if necessary, affirmative action in all its policies regarding employment and provision of services. MPA does not discriminate in its hiring, programs or policies on the bases of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.
Mount Prospect Academy strongly recommends, but does not require, that all MPA faculty (employees) stay protected against COVID-19 by getting their primary vaccine series and stay up to date with a booster dose if they are eligible to receive one.
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