Description
Job Title: Telos Mental Health Clinical Director
Job Status: Part-time
Reports To: Director of Outpatient Services
Pay-Scale: DOE
Mission: To ensure the organization delivers clinically excellent, ethical, and evidence-based treatment that is safe and effective, while developing strong clinicians and protecting the organization’s licensure, reputation, and outcomes.
The Clinical Director manages the clinical department of Telos Mental Health Outpatient Services (PHP/IOP) by acting as the direct supervisor of the Clinical Team.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervises and trains clinical personnel to assure that quality therapy is being given
- Determines clinical appropriateness of possible admissions
- Completes clinical chart reviews to assure that psychosocial histories, MTP, discharge
- summaries, and case notes are complete and updated
- Manages the Telos charting system
- Trains others on correct charting
- Conducts full chart reviews every 7 days
- Conducts weekly treatment team meeting in which each student's treatment is reviewed
- Conducts weekly group supervision meetings with interns
- Oversees and reviews each students MTP
- Addresses parental concerns and complaints regarding clinicians and students treatments
- Assign (and change only under special situations) each student’s primary therapist
- Approve and oversee students request for a personal advocate
- Report to CPS and state licensing board when allegations of student abuse is made
- Grants clinical privileges
- Performs quarterly and yearly performance evaluations on clinical personnel
- Acts as a primary therapist for a caseload of 5-6 students
- Runs IOP and PHP group therapy sessions
- Performs primary therapist responsibilities in the absence of the primary therapist
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Masters level (or higher) independently licensed clinician
- Completed clinical supervisor course (or willing to do a course)
- Willing to supervise clinical interns
- Leadership experience
- Excellent interpersonal relationship skills
- Excellent organization skills
- Team-centered personality/approach