Director of Clinical Services, LPC, LCSW, or LMFT

Position Summary

Supervise, direct, and provide leadership to professional program staff. Provide professional guidance and training that involves the assessment and diagnosis of children and adolescents. Consistently monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of program services offered. Monitor for program compliance with state and federal accreditation bodies. May rotate among UHS facilities on a periodic basis in order to enhance exposure to a variety of services, programs, and management styles.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. An individual must be able to perform their duties in a positive work mode and serve as a positive role model and influence for youth and peers.

Education and/or Experience

LPC/LCSW/LMFT (REQUIRED)

Knowledge Requirements

• Theoretical knowledge of program practice and principles.
• Knowledge of client population and the means and measures to respond to those needs.
• Fundamental knowledge and demonstrated use of basic management skills and leadership principles.

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations

Licensure applicable to field of study.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry. Elementary use of computer spreadsheet programs.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish and analyze facts, and use sound judgment in reaching valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Ability to think and act quickly and calmly in emergency situations.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, talk and hear; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move a minimum of 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distant, and peripheral vision, color and depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee may occasionally be required to physically restrain clients, using authorized restraint procedures as a last resort for protection of client and staff.

Work Environment

The work environment for this position is a residential facility setting. While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee will be exposed to clients who may ask inappropriate personal questions, display socially unacceptable personal behaviors, use profanity and sexually explicit phrases, make insulting remarks or threats regarding appearance, age, sex, or race, and exhibit defiance, dishonesty, and assaultive or self-destructive behaviors. The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions, and may be subject to occasional local or long distance travel as required by facility needs. The noise level in the work environment is moderate. This facility is a smoke free environment; however employees may be exposed to second hand smoke if patients smoke outdoors in the designated smoking areas.