Clinical Director

## Description

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| | The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth 1100 Adams Ave | Audubon, PA 19403 (610) 277-3715 | <[email hidden]> **JOB DESCRIPTION: SCHOOL-BASED COUNSELOR** |

**Position Summary:**

The Clinical Director recruits, hires, trains, and supervises the agency’s unlicensed and licensed practitioners, including school-based mental health counselors, social workers, crisis intervention specialists, and behavioral analysts.

**Duties & Responsibilities**

• Recruit for all open school-based mental health positions for the company
• Hire, train, and onboard all new counselors, social workers, behavioral analysts, crisis intervention specialists, college/career coaches, school climate coaches
• Provide direct, individual clinical supervision for licensed and unlicensed mental health staff
• Facilitates group supervision or case-conferences as required
• Monitor caseloads and ensure that supervisees comply with all agency, clinical, legal, and ethical practices
• Provide ongoing, regular feedback and evaluation to staff on the quality and timeliness of their clinical work
• Counsel, motivate, and conduct performance reviews
• Oversee work procedures for all mental health professionals
• Ensure staff comply with licensure and registration requirements
• Ensure compliance, accuracy, and quality of clinical documentation
• Enhance operations by ensuring sufficient staffing and adequate access to services
• Develop programs and ensuring compliance with procedures and policies
• Identify training needs and make recommendations to agency’s learning and development director

**Skills & Knowledge**

• Knowledge of child and adolescent development, trauma, chemical dependency,
• dual diagnosis, domestic violence and sexually exploited minors
• Highly skilled at supervising individual and family therapy and engaging caregivers in treatment
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with foster care and child welfare systems and services, community mental health, and/or community psychology models
• Competent in working with psychological issues related race, ethnicity and class
• Collaboration and team functioning - able to work independently and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, able to proactively collaborate with other supervisors and program directors to ensure the best possible training for supervisees and service delivery for clients
• Able to work effectively in an organizational setting and understand how to utilize the chain of command to resolve problems and bring program development ideas forward
• Ability to proactively collaborate with other supervisors and program directors to ensure the best possible training for supervisees and service delivery for clients.
• Efficiency and time management
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and writing skills
• Knowledge of or ability to learn Medi-Cal reimbursement procedures and billing

**Education & Experience:**

• Master’s degree in counseling or social work required
• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) designation required
• At least five years of supervisory experience in a similar role

**Other Duties:**

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

**Work Environment:**

Time will be divided between office meetings with staff within the organization and meeting with potential donors.

**Work Hours:**

Must be able to work weekends and nights for fundraising events. Must be willing to work long hours to reach fundraising deadlines.

**Travel:**

Must be willing to travel to meet with potential donors wherever they may be.