Join our team and grow with us! Are you looking for a career with meaning? Do you want to be part of a team who strives to improve the quality of a person’s life?

Avita Community Partners gives you the opportunity to live out your passion, in an organization known for high quality care. We value, reward & recognize hard working committed staff and want you to be surrounded by a healthy team and strong leadership.

Avita offers a great benefit package including options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and many more! We understand that it’s difficult to save for retirement, so we contribute the equivalent of 3.5% of your salary into a 401k plan that will grow for you.

• 20 days Paid Time Off (PTO) per year with a full “cash out” for unused PTO
• 9 Paid Holidays, 1 Floating Holiday, plus Your Birthday as a Holiday just for you!
• Avita is also an approved organization for the Federal Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.

Job Description:
Plans, organizes, and directs all therapeutic and treatment activities in assigned facility. Responsible for the quality of care delivered in the Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU). Directs subordinate managers and staff.

Job Responsibilities & Performance Standards:

• Coordinate’s response to disaster and emergencies
• Develops and manages the budget and makes cost effective decisions
• Develops policies, sets standards, and plans objectives for the CSU in accordance with established policies
• Develops staffing patterns and creates staff schedules to assure an adequate level of staffing for safe and effective provision of care
• Initiates and participates in the development of community wide policy to improve the health status of the guests
• Interprets policies and communicates changes in regulations and procedures
• Makes long-range plans and regularly reviews activities, problems and functions of services being delivered
• Organizes and plans a systematic and continuous quality/performance improvement program for the practice of nursing
• Oversees the collection of data for statistical records
• Plans and directs the work of CSU Team Leads and clinical staff
• Provides staff development including orientation, in-service training, workshops, and continuing education for all levels of nursing staff
• Review’s state, federal, and other regulatory standards information to direct the quality improvement activities and achieve compliance
• Post, interview, hire and on-board staff
• Supervise staff and document supervision
• Provide supervision for clinical licensure and oversees clinical interns and required supervision
• Address issues with subordinate staff and document progressive discipline
• Ensure that incident reports and infection control reports are completed within 24 hours of incident occurring and follow-up
• Weekly chart audits and analysis of findings
• Training/Retraining of staff based on findings of chart audits
• Communicates needs, issues, concerns, and compliments with the BHCC Director as needed but minimum of weekly
• Participate in Medical Practices, Pharmacy & Therapeutics, Prescriber, CQI and Corporate Compliance meetings as scheduled
• Other duties as assigned by BHCC Director

Sample Technical Competencies:

Entry Qualifications:
A current Georgia license to practice as a licensed clinician (LCSW, LMFT or LPC) AND three years of management experience. Should have a Certified Professional Counselor Certification (CPCS), if applicable to licensure.

Avita has been recognized by the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities as The Provider of the Year and have achieved the highest level of CARF Accreditation since 1999.

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