Clinical Director OF Addiction Services

Clinical Director - Addiction Services

Talbott Recovery is currently looking for a full-time Clinical Director for our Main Campus location. At Talbott Recovery, we focus on patient-centered care and a personal individualized approach, upholding a high standard of innovative treatment and compassionate attention to each individual patient's needs. Our integrated program addresses the needs of the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. Our system of care is personalized and we are committed to providing and promoting evidence-based treatment for individuals with co-occurring disorders through clinical services, education, and research. Our purpose is to create lifetime relationships for long-term recovery.

Benefits for Clinical Director include:

• Caring, challenging, and rewarding work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Generous paid time off
• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug plans
• 401K with matching funds
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ subsidiaries

What do our current therapists like about working at Talbott?

• Team collaboration
• Watching the patient growth and development
• Beautiful modern campus
• Highly talented clinical team
• Diverse clientele

Position Summary

Provides leadership and oversight of clinical program and associated activities within the facility.

Essential Duties And

• Ensures the integrity of the core clinical product – the FRN Model of treatment (use of Motivational Interviewing and Stages of Change).
• Champions and oversees the full integration of Patient Centered Care.
• Provides supervision over clinical/program activities, develops and implements plans for enhancing productivity, compliance and profitability.
• Supervises clinical/program staff, including facilitating treatment team meetings, conducting staff meetings and ensuring provision of individual supervision.
• Includes scheduling of staff to balance both quality and efficiency of coverage.
• Oversees program schedule to meet the unique needs of patient population and any unique service groups, based on level of care, balancing both quality and efficiency.
• Oversees other departments as assigned by CEO.
• Insures clinical documentation meets both qualitative and quantitative standards set by the company, The Joint Commission and DATEP.
• Establishes systems for both quantitative auditing and qualitative peer review that ensures that standards are maintained over time.
• Completes monthly, quarterly and all other reports as required in a timely manner.
• Consult with Call Center on unusual admissions.
• Handles individual therapeutic cases and leads therapy and support groups as assigned by the CEO.
• Work closely with Human Resources to ensure regular, consistent, structured training of new staff and annual updates of the core components of our model (Motivational Interviewing, Stages of Change and Patient Centered Care) as well as other required trainings to meet regulatory standards (HIPAA, Risk Management, etc.).
• Attends and participates in meetings as directed by CEO.
• Must have an understanding of diverse cultures.
• Overall responsibility for referral source communication.
• Insures that the Client Care Manager, primary therapist, etc., provide regular and comprehensive clinical updates to all referral sources.
• Investigate and resolve customer service complaints regarding clinical services.
• Regularly provides training to internal staff members on critical clinical processes and models.

Education And Experience

Master’s degree in psychology or social work required

3 plus years supervisory/managerial experience as a clinical manager or director

2 plus years of experience in a clinical residential setting preferred

Must maintain active state of Georgia license, LCSW or LMFT, LPC