Operating under the Administrative Oversight of the Senior Program Director, the Clinical Director is responsible for overseeing mental health and support services, processes, and staff while ensuring services provided are hope centered, developmentally appropriate, and trauma informed. The Clinical Director oversees the implementation and design of evidence-based and best practice standards for quality service delivery and support to clients and agency partners through a variety of service deliveries. This position is responsible for upholding programmatic and staff compliance with agency policy, accrediting bodies, contracts, grants, and state and federal guidelines.

The Clinical Director exhibits professional integrity, exemplifying the values and mission of the organization, so that program goals for children and their families are achieved and staff experience an excellent employment environment.

All Sunbeam employees and volunteers are expected to be sensitive to our clients cultural and socioeconomic characteristics, reflect Sunbeam Family Services core values and to perform at Sunbeams standards of excellence at all times.

• Promote and contribute to a work environment that encourages knowledge of, respect for, and development of skills to engage with those of other cultures, beliefs, abilities, and experiences.
• Demonstrate capacity for providing developmentally sensitive, evidence based, culturally sensitive, hope centered, and trauma informed services.
• Provide leadership and guidance to team members, including setting performance expectations, monitoring progress, and providing regular feedback and coaching.
• Facilitate professional development, training, and skill building activities for assigned staff.
• Conduct regular team meetings to review progress, discuss issues, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Develop multiple programs, services, and support plans, policies, and procedures reflective of best practices and multidisciplinary team approaches.
• Demonstrate capacity for providing developmentally sensitive, evidence based, culturally sensitive, hope centered, and trauma informed services.
• Monitor financial and programmatic reports to ensure proper adherence and accountability across multiple programs and services.
• Assist with grant applications and new initiatives.
• Demonstrate expertise for highly differentiated clientele and service delivery, including but not limited to individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, couples/marital therapy, client advocacy, assessment, treatment planning, crisis intervention and follow up as needed, education, case management, Employee Assistance Programs, grants, private partnerships, and consultation.
• Ensure that the most effective, evidence based, hope centered, and trauma informed programs, treatment approaches, and service delivery are utilized while exploring new models.
• Uphold multiple program and service compliance with agency policy, accrediting and oversight bodies, contractual obligations, and meet reporting requirements, performance and outcome requirements, funding requirements, licensing, and best practice standards.
• Direct the daily operations of assigned programs and staff; including but not limited to: supervision of staff and interns; oversight of workloads, clientele, and productivity; staff hiring and oversight of onboarding and training processes; documentation reviews and quality improvement issues; facilitate staff meetings and case consultation; coordination of other partnerships, contracts, and services.
• Oversee and implement regular supervision of program staff and interns, including regular review and approval of documentation.
• Responsible for development and implementation of comprehensive training of staff including orienting staff to all documentation requirements. Responsible for ensuring staff meet core competencies in documentation and service delivery.
• Available for crisis consultation and/or routine case consultation while seeking consultation from Senior Program Director or other designated leadership staff as needed.
• Facilitate critical incident reviews and staff debriefings in consultation with the Senior Program Director or other designated leadership staff.
• Accurately complete and oversee program specific record keeping, documentation, and reporting functions while ensuring that documentation is completed in a timely manner as required by program and/or agency policy utilizing the program designated EHR system or other reporting mechanism.
• Meet or exceed established productivity requirements while ensuring assigned staff also meet or exceed established productivity requirements.
• Represent Sunbeam in a professional manner, including community interactions, consultation and education to staff and community partners, and presentations (including media and in person), etc.
• Maintain professional competency in specific discipline through appropriate professional clinical trainings, readings, attendance at workshops, and through consultation with other professionals while complying with all requirements to maintain professional licensure.
• Adhere to the Sunbeam Code of Ethics, HIPAA, and other confidentiality policies/practices while maintaining professional standards at all times.
• Complete continuing education requirements to ensure licensure maintained as required by position.
• Travel locally as required in the performance of responsibilities.
• Perform other appropriate and related responsibilities as assigned by Senior Program Director or Executive Team member.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to frequently communicate with staff and others, and must be able to exchange accurate information when doing so. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time and occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office equipment, attend meetings, etc. Must be able to detect, discern, distinguish, observe, inspect and compare. Occasionally must be able to move needed materials weighing up to 20 pounds.

Work Environment

Provide therapy and supervision in an office or other setting (school-based or community setting, limited home based setting for Sunbeam Foster Families), work in close proximity to client(s), staff, and children. The noise level in the work environment may vary from moderate to loud.

Other

The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. The qualifications, physical demands, and work environment described herein are representative of those an employee will encounter and must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel or candidate and may be subject to change at any time. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

Sunbeam Family Services is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are committed to fair and equal in all its employment practices for persons without regard to race, ethnicity, color, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, disability or degree thereof, national origin, domestic/marital status, political affiliation or opinion, veteran status, HIV status, AIDS status, genetic information, and any characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.