CLINICAL DIRECTOR

901 E Southwind Rd Springfield, IL 62703

Posting Identification Number 47975

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Position Overview

The Division of Mental Health is seeking to hire a Clinical Director for the Elizabeth Packard Mental Health Center located in Springfield, Illinois. The incumbent will be responsible for all clinical psycho-social and rehabilitation programs and active treatment, development, and rehabilitation of persons with a mental illness. The Clinical Director will coordinate activities of clinical programs with nursing and medical staff, develop, establish, and implement goals and objectives for the hospital’s Strategic Plan for all clinical programs. Elizabeth Packard Mental Health Center strives to provide equitable access to social/human services, supports, programs and resources to enhance the lives of all who we serve.

Essential Functions

• Serves as Clinical Director for Elizabeth Packard Mental Health Center.
• Develops and implements contemporary clinical programs designed to move to a recovery orientated system and to incorporate Recovery strategies and Trauma Informed care for both civil and forensic populations.
• Serves as a full-line supervisor.
• Attends treatment team meetings on a regular basis and provides treatment team staff with guidance and direction in optimal treatment planning.
• Writes, reviews, and maintains various facility manuals which govern the areas of Admissions and Discharges, Clinical Assessment, Treatment Planning and Patient Care Monitoring.
• Serves and participates on various facility committees; confirms timely follow-up on problems identified through the facilities Quality Assurance programs; serves as the Hospital Chief Executive Officer in his/her absence.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years college in a social or human services field.
• Requires four (4) years progressively responsible administrative experience working with individuals with a mental illness and supervising clinical staff in the fields of health and human services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a health or human services related field.
• Four (4) years of professional experience supervising, developing, implementing and maintaining a system for monitoring clinical psycho-social and rehabilitation programs and activities in the treatment/development and rehabilitation of persons with mental illness.
• Four (4) years of professional experience in clinical consultation on service delivery and active treatment relative to mental health policies and procedures.
• Three (3) years of professional experience developing, interpreting and ensuring implementation of policies and procedures for a public or private organization.
• Four (4) years of professional experience providing training and instruction to professional staff on the philosophy and goals for a clinical services program and current treatment technologies.
• Three (3) years of professional experience communicating in oral and written form with internal and external stakeholders regarding issues dealing with mental health policies, procedures, staff, legislation, and interagency agreements for a public or private organization.

Conditions of Employment

• Requires the ability to serve on-call after business hours, weekends and holidays.
• Requires the ability to physically restrain patients as necessary to prevent injury to patient or others.
• Requires the ability to obtain and maintain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certificate.
• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
• Certain provisions of the revolving door restrictions contained in 5 ILCS 430/5-45 apply to this position. As a result, the employee should be aware that if offered non-State employment during state employment or within one year immediately after ending State employment, the employee shall, prior to accepting any such non-State employment offer, notify the Office of the Executive Inspector General for the Agencies of the Illinois Governor (OEIG) or may be subject to a fine.
• This position has been found to meet the requirements in section 4A-101 of the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act requiring the occupant/employee to file a Statement of Economic Interest. The Illinois Governmental Ethics Act (5 ILCS 420/4A et seq.) requires certain state officials and employees to file annual Statements of Economic Interest with the Office of the Secretary of State that will be made available for examination and copying by the public. All employees required to file a Statement of Economic Interest are also required to file the Supplemental Statement of Economic Interest with the Executive Ethics Commission. (See Executive Order 15-09) Fines and penalties apply to untimely filings.
• *All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

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