The Assistant Clinical Director supports the Clinical Director by providing strategic leadership and effective supervision of departmental staff, and developing and maintaining successful relationships with clients, staff, and service provider partners.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provides clinical leadership for the department by directing and overseeing clinical processes of client treatment such as clinical assessments, diagnoses, clinical interventions, treatment planning, utilization review, and appropriate client treatment discharges. Serves as a resource to other clinical leaders within the agency for professional consultation on the treatment of clients.
• Attends various local and state meetings as an agency representative and develops successful relationships with these committees and agencies. Conducts formal and informal presentations to the community when needed.
• Promotes the positive reputation of the Center to the community and state.
• Maintains accurate and complete records of all client services, as defined by state licensing agencies, funding agencies, and Mental Health Center standards and requirements.
• Attends/co-leads monthly QMHP meetings and biweekly Service Manager meetings.
• Leads biweekly Regional Manager meetings.
• Maintains a small caseload of 20 clients or less.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position provides direct supervision to the regional managers (Lyon, Osage, Morris, Wabaunsee, Greenwood, and Coffey), providers working remotely (employees and contractors), and oversees Chase County and Eskridge office needs.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; handle objects; grasp and reach for items with hands and arms; manipulate hands and fingers; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, or crouch; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Language skills are required, including the ability to read, write, comprehend, and speak the English language. This position also requires the ability to interpret written materials, write reports and business correspondence, and effectively present and respond to questions.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position with hours from 8:00 am 5:00 pm, Monday Friday. This position requires occasional evening and weekend work as job duties demand.

Travel

Travel is primarily local.

Required Education and Experience

Master’s or Doctoral Degree in clinical psychology, school of social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy or psychology is minimum required.

Licensure/Certification

Licensure as a master level clinician with the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board preferred with special consideration for LSCSW, LCP, LCPC, or LP licensure.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

A minimum of ten years work experience in the mental health services field, with a minimum of five years’ work experience in direct client treatment care; ability to successfully lead and direct a service department and its resources in an effort to support the agency mission; previous supervisory work experience; ability to work with persons with serious emotional disturbance and/or severe and persistent mental illness; possess demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to react effectively in a variety of human service situations; possess prior computer experience in Microsoft Office programs and moderate to advanced computer fluency.