Job Description

The Director of Behavioral Health (DBH) has the primary responsibility of development and management of psychological and ancillary therapies, supervising all clinical services, to include mental health services, and leadership of Program Coordinators. All services are provided within U.S.VETS’ outpatient services.

Responsibilities

• Establishes appropriate, quality standards for client care in mental health, addiction treatment, and health promotion activities for U.S.VETS.
• Assures that appropriate protocols for continuous improvement are established in mental health and addiction services and monitors ongoing compliance with quality assurance standards for mental health and substance use outpatient care.
• Plans, oversees, and collaborates on the planning for new program initiatives and oversees and collaborates the efforts to obtain new funding and assure the continuation of on-going funding.
• Oversees recruiting, maintaining, and providing appropriate clinical coverage in the clinical department and collaborates with the program department to ensure 24-hour clinical coverage for clients.
• Hires, trains, directly supervises, and evaluates the Clinical Administrative Coordinator, Program Coordinators, and Licensed Clinical Therapists Manages and oversees U.S.VETS’ internship program to include but is not limited to task assignment, conducting weekly supervision, and adhering to university and licensing board standards.
• Available for consultation by program staff as needed.
• Oversees the performance- and competency-based standards for all clinical programs.
• Creates an individual and group supervision schedule for the site in accordance with frequency standards as defined by national Clinical and Program teams.
• Assumes 100% of the Clinical Administrative Coordinator’s role and responsibilities in this position’s absence/position vacancy through independent completion of tasks or through delegation of responsibilities.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in social services or another related field required.
• Minimum of three (3) years management experience of multiple programs and personnel.
• Hawaii state licensure in social services; LMFT or LCSW required.

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