Clinical Director - Diversionary Services

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.

Bay Cove Human Services is committed to ensuring the representation and participation of candidates from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We encourage all qualified individuals, particularly those from historically marginalized groups, to apply.

Job Summary:

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

This is an exempt position.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

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  Administrative and clinical supervision of Assistant Clinical Director

  
  
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  Clinical supervision of all Diversionary Services employees

  
  
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  Clinical supervision of interns

  
  

Essential Functions of the Position:

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  Provide clinical oversight and training to all program staff to improve staff skills related to engaging patients and providing meaningful services.

  
  
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  Supervise records management assuring maintenance of patient records in compliance with agency and funder requirements, train staff on record requirements, regularly review records, and supervise individual staff for records mastery.

  
  
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  Ensure that high quality assessments and treatment plans are completed within expected timeframes, review all assessments, treatment plans, and treatment plan reviews to ensure compliance with DPH regulations and sign off.

  
  
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  Ensure the provision of at least four hours of evidence-based clinical treatment programming each day and provide direct group and individual clinical treatment to patients via evidence-based practices.

  
  
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  Ensure that all required treatment services are provided directly by the program or through Qualified Service Organizations, Business Associate Agreement, or other applicable agreement, including: Overdose prevention education as part of evidence-based practices; Substance use disorder therapies; Counseling and education as clinically indicated which conform to accepted standards of care, uses evidence-based practices, and monitors progress and outcomes; Mental health services, including screening, crisis intervention, and psychopharmacological services, for individuals with co-occurring disorders; Services for individuals with compulsive behaviors such as compulsive gambling; Relapse prevention and recovery maintenance counseling and education and shall: Planning for patient's or resident's completion of treatment, and identification of transitional, discharge and aftercare supports the patient or resident may require; Family support services, including family therapy, or social or education services.

  
  
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  Ensure that Case Management is directly connecting patients to appropriate providers based on continuum of care and patient educational, vocational, financial, legal and housing; and (2) updating the patient's primary care provider on treatment and progress, such as by providing the patient's record to the primary care provider upon the patient's documented authorization.

  
  
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  Facilitate multidisciplinary team review and ensure timely documentation of outcome.

  
  
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  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.

  
  
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  Serve as an administrative resource as the manager on duty in absence of Director and Assistant Director of Diversionary Services.

  
  
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  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.

  
  
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  Other job-related duties as assigned.

  
  

Job Requirements:

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  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.

  
  
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  At least two years of supervised substance use disorder counseling experience.

  
  
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  Licensure as a LADC I or other independent license.

  
  
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  At least one year of full time equivalent clinical supervisory experience.

  
  
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  Demonstrated professional writing, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

  
  
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  Intermediate proficiency in word processing and other computer functions using Windows, Word, and Google Email and Apps.

  
  
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  Demonstrated commitment to a sustained effort to seek out, acknowledge, and respect the diverse voices of all stakeholders and to advance inclusivity through every function of the role and the agency as a whole.

  
  

Bay Cove Human Services does not offer visa sponsorships at this time and will require candidates to be authorized to work in the United States.

• Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA