Clinical Director

The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth

1100 Adams Ave | Audubon, PA 19403

(610) 277-3715 | [email protected]

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.