Adult Day Care Director jobs in Glendale, AZ

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Position Summary:

This role oversees the operations of the clinical department within the Willow House program and the delivery of quality/best practice clinical services. Tracks and trends information obtained through performance improvement activities and uses information gained for quality improvement.

Responsibilities;

• Serves as a leader to the clinical teams by providing support, guidance and information.
• Administrator On-Call as requested.
• Maintains current knowledge of regulatory and accreditation requirements and communicates to staff to ensure their understanding of these requirements.
• Ensures the program operates in compliance with the laws and regulations of federal, state and local agencies, the standards, rules and regulations of various accrediting and approval agencies, including Joint Commission and according to current narrative/schedule, admission/discharge criteria and all other applicable policies, procedures and plans.
• Monitors units and program functioning through attendance at staffing/team meetings and management.
• Provides reports as required to administration and external funding and regulatory entities.
• Responds to complaints from patient, family member or staff regarding clinical services, or delegates this responsibility to the appropriate clinical staff person in accordance with the patient's confidentiality/rights.
• Assures that psycho-social assessment, individual, family, specialized and group therapy is provided in accordance with clinical guidelines and modalities recognized and accepted by the behavioral health field. Reviews appropriateness of admissions.
• Maintains oversight of direct clinical practice ensuring therapists and ancillary clinical staff creates and follow an individualized treatment plan per patient.
• Works with nursing, clinical and medical staff to determine when specialized assessments are needed for patients.
• Oversees documentation of clinical services to ensure they meet all standards.
• Modifies & develops existing programs using best practice for feedback received from clinical and nursing staff, patients, referral sources and other involved entities to improve service effectiveness, availability and delivery.
• Actively participates in strategic planning and budget development.
• In conjunction with the Executive Director, formulates flexible staffing plan for clinical programs.
• Ensures that the program operates within budgetary staffing and expense guidelines.
• Assists with proposal writing when necessary and identifies potential funding sources when possible.
• Actively participates in Performance Improvement activities per requirements of accreditation, licensure, funding and administration.
• Oversees data collection, analysis, and quality management activities related to performance improvement initiatives.
• Hires, orients, trains and supervises direct report staff.
• Provides a departmental orientation that is specific to the functions of the department and the job responsibilities of the staff member.

Qualifications

Education, Skills and Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of a Master’s Degree in a Behavioral Health discipline or related field.
• State Clinical License in good standing or ability to obtain within 90 days post employment. Psychology License accepted in lieu of Clinical License.
• Minimum of two years experience in supervision / administration in a behavioral health setting.
• Certified by state accrediting board to provide Clinical Supervision or obtain within 90 days of employment preferred.
• Minimum of four years experience conducting individual, group and family therapy.
• Good understanding of diagnostic categories and assessment instruments, with ability to develop program and services according to the needs of the patient population served.
• Knowledge of State and accreditation requirements.

We are a Drug Free Company.  All positions are designated as “Safety Sensitive” positions and in light of our company mission, the Company does not employ medical marijuana cardholders. Following an offer of employment, and prior to reporting to work, all applicants will be required to submit to and pass a substance abuse screen.

The Meadows is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The Meadows provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities and if you need reasonable accommodation during any time of the employment process please reach out.