Clinical Director - Newport Healthcare

Moorpark, CA 93012

About the Job

About Us:

Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love—and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.

Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.®

Responsibilities:

The Clinical Director oversees all aspects of clinical operations, programming, and treatment services at their assigned program. The Clinical Director is responsible for fulfillment of essential duties, whether directly or assigned to clinical leadershipat the program. In collaboration with the Chief Clinical Officer and the National Clinical Team, the Clinical Director protects and enhances the Newport Healthcare brand, focused on safety, fidelity, and quality of care, clinical initiatives and quality assurance and improvement efforts. The Clinical Director reports directly to the Executive Director, with a dotted line to the Chief Clinical Officer.

Essential Duties:

Interview, select, and onboard new clinicians, ensuring their participation in clinical new hire orientation and position-specific trainings and shadowing.
Facilitate or elicit support from national clinical team with clinical trainings for specific clinicians or topics as needs are identified.
Assign caseloads to ensure all clients and families receive therapeutic services, while maximizing the clinical team’s potential to maintain or increase capacity.
Develop, implement, and periodically review clinical program schedule, to ensure programming adheres to Newport Healthcare’s treatment model in compliance with state licensing, Joint Commission, and payer regulations.
Facilitation of treatment team meetings, individual and group supervision, and ongoingclinical trainings, and components of All-Staff New Hire Orientation.
Oversight of onsite admission process including final approval of denials, conducting secondary clinical clearances, and coordination with the Admissions Department.
Focus on client and family experience and successful outcomes through consistent communication and attention to family needs.
Manage emerging crisis situations in the milieu and provide support as clinical back-up on-call.
Coordination with treatment team and parental involvement, as needed, with ACA/AMA and administrative discharges.
Coordinate peer reviews to be conducted within timeline requested by utilization review.
Drive quality assurance efforts and quality improvement initiatives as required.
Audit medical chartsmonthly to ensure clinical documentation meets quality and submission standards, with deficiencies addressed with clinician and additional training provided if needed.
Support Family Therapists with facilitation of Saturday Family Program support groupsand psychoeducational presentations.

Qualifications:

Master’s degree in psychology, counseling, or social work required.
Licensed in Marriage Family Therapy, Counseling, Psychology, or Social Work required.
Two years or more of relevant clinical experience with adolescents, young adults, and families, with mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring disordered populations.
Minimum of one-year experience in a residential setting.
Minimum of one-year supervisor experience.

Salary is $82,645-$124,040 annually based on education and experience.

Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.

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