Clinical Director at Steelgem – Santa Ana, California

At The Forge Recovery Center, we are dedicated to providing compassionate and comprehensive care to individuals struggling with substance use disorder. Our holistic approach combines evidence-based treatment modalities with personalized care, fostering healing and empowerment for our clients. Our new center in the heart of Orange County offers a peaceful and supportive environment for individuals to embark on their journey to recovery.

We pride ourselves on serving our community. We do so with a transparent, collaborative culture fueled by genuine compassion for those in recovery. We’re out to change the addiction and mental health treatment landscape…and have fun doing it. If you are excited to be a Director who is ready to grow your team and community, Apply Now!

About the role

Program Quality

• Evaluate and review effectiveness of program, services, and group therapy designs.
• Maintain a culture of care conducive for maximum benefit of clients and staff.
• Plan and implement new programs and clinical services with the senior management team.
• Evaluate client data to coordinate treatment services by auditing all clinical chart documentation, providing supervision sessions, and running weekly treatment meetings.
• Positively interact and develop rapport with clients and their families, providing family services as needed.
• Develop systems and methodologies for continuous improvement of group and individual treatment modalities.
• Coordinating with physicians in identifying treatment needs for all patients and approving all client treatment plans.

Compliance

• Demonstrate compliance with all appropriate professional standards, licensing, and certifications
• Ensure the Center's services are compliant with HIPPA, JCAHO, and the state.
• Work with admissions team to ensure new admissions are suited for the Mental Health Center.
• Regularly ensure compliance with industry, local, and state agencies.
• Uphold and enforce the center's standards, policies, procedures, client rights, and our professional code of ethics and conduct.
• Oversee, manage, and audit documentation of therapists, clinical staff, and contracted facilitators.
• Review and revise the center policies and procedures as needed.

Leadership

• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with subordinate staff, supervisors, utilization reviews, managed health care clinicians, and medical and mental health professionals.
• Be responsible for recruiting, retaining, evaluating, training, and disciplining all clinical department staff.
• Monitor client population and clinical assignments to make sure workloads are reasonable.
• Ensures continuity of client care via knowledge of treatment modalities and the Southern California recovery community. Working with families and other treatment facilities to provide appropriate continuity of care.
• Manage clinical staff regarding screening, assessment, individualized treatment planning, crisis intervention, group and individual counseling, case management, referral, discharge summaries, clinical documentation, and professional ethics.

Qualifications

• • Education: A master’s degree required. PsyD or Ph.D. a plus!
  • Experience: Minimum of two years’ experience in the addiction and/or mental health field or equivalent human services. Experience as Lead Therapist with supervisory experience preferred but not required. Experience in dual diagnosis preferred.
  • Certificates & Licenses: LMFT, LCSW, LPCC or PsyD and PH.D. May consider less than 2 years of experience depending on type of experience and core knowledge. Valid driver’s license.
  • Skills: Computer literacy in Microsoft office; proficiency in KIPU Systems client management software.
• • Negative TB test within past year
  • Ability to pass pre-employment and/or random drug screenings