Clinical Director

Overview

Bay Cove Human Services’ mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. Bay Cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges associated with developmental disabilities, mental illness, substance use disorders, and homelessness at more than 175 program sites throughout Greater Boston and Southeastern Massachusetts.

Job Summary: The Clinical Director is responsible for the clinical/educational operation of the program, ensuring the delivery and documentation of evidence-based services rooted in harm reduction and a trauma-responsive approach and leading case management staff in delivering a diverse curriculum for brief interventions, holistic services, individual and group therapy, while supporting residents through their treatment and aftercare plans. The Clinical Director contributes to Bay Cove’s mission by ensuring residential recovery services are providing residents with meaningful treatment and tools to support them in their pursuit of their recovery goals.

This is an exempt position.

• Provide clinical oversight and training to all program staff to improve staff skills related to engaging residents and providing meaningful services to address both substance use and mental health disorders.
• Support all staff in becoming proficient in evidence-based practices for managing and supporting both substance use and mental health disorders.
• Provide individual and group supervision to case managers.
• Supervise record management, assuring maintenance of resident records in compliance with agency and funder requirements, train staff on record requirements, regularly review records, and supervise individual staff for records mastery.
• Ensure that high quality assessments and treatment plans are completed within expected time frames, review all assessments, treatment plans, and treatment plan reviews to ensure compliance with DPH regulations and sign off.
• Ensure stage of motivation is incorporated into individualized plans and formally prescribed and delivered stage-wise treatments for both substance use and mental health issues.
• Ensure the provision of at least five hours of evidence-based clinical treatment programming each week and provide direct group and individual clinical treatment to residents via evidence-based practices.
• Ensure that all required treatment services are provided directly by the program or through Qualified Service Organizations, Business Associate Agreement, or other applicable agreement.
• Ensure that the care coordinator is directly connecting residents to appropriate providers based on continuum of care and residents educational, vocational, financial, legal and housing; and updating the residents' primary care provider on treatment and progress, such as by providing the residents' record to the primary care provider upon the resident’s documented authorization.
• Ensure that daily programming is occurring and that the daily activities are facilitating the stabilization of the residents’ substance use and mental health symptoms, maintenance of medication regimens, participation in community interactions and promoting residents’ recovery.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary team review and ensure timely documentation of outcome.
• Support the development, review, and revision of policies and procedures that impact access to service and equity, ensuring that policies and procedures do not restrict access to admission or services provided therein.
• Ensure timely and accurate communication and coordination of care with other providers, such as DCF and DPH
• Serve as an administrative resource as the manager on duty in absence of the Program Director.
• Provide crisis assessment, prevention, and needed intervention during scheduled hours and while on-call in nights and weekends as scheduled by providing on-call coverage on a rotating basis.

• A master's degree in one of the following disciplines or a closely related field: clinical psychology, education-counseling, medicine, mental health, psychology, psychiatric nursing, rehabilitative counseling, or social work.
• Licensed…