Mental Health Director

Mental Health Director

You matter: Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved. Join a mission-driven organization with a people-first culture and excellent career growth opportunities.

Join us and find a career that supports:

• Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Autonomy in a warm team environment
• Growth and training

Compensation Range

$90,209.6 - $110,240 / year

Job Description

• Plan, manage, supervise, and coordinate clinical services for mental health staff, ensuring compliance with policies, accreditation standards, and patient safety initiatives, while maintaining open communication with institutional staff.
• Provide clinical supervision, professional education, and staff development, including training, onboarding, and disciplinary counseling, ensuring staff competency and ethical performance.
• Oversee and implement evidence-based treatment programs, mental health treatment planning, activity therapy, and substance use disorder programs, ensuring proper clinical documentation and participation in Quality Improvement Programs.
• Conduct staff selection and recruitment, supervise clerical support staff, manage inventory and supplies, and ensure on-call mental health consultation services for crisis intervention.
• Collaborate with the site psychiatrist for crisis intervention oversight, review clinical service reports, maintain confidentiality, and ensure compliance with facility standards, including professional appearance and working relationships.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Education: Master's degree in social work, clinical or counseling psychology from an accredited college or university required. Doctorate preferred.

• Experience: Experience in the coordination and administration of mental health service delivery systems. Significant coursework and professional experience in the mental health field that indicates knowledge of management and supervision techniques, peer review, quality assurance, group and individual psychotherapy, diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders, and psychological evaluation techniques.

• Licenses/Certifications: Licensed in the state of employment by the appropriate state licensing board. Must maintain CPR certification and any other certifications (such as First Aid) required by contract.

Benefits

In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work-life balance for team members and their families to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:

• DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
• Tuition assistance and dependent scholarships
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
• Company paid life insurance
• Tax-free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

Why Us

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved. If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to "Always Do The Right Thing!", and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan.

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members and have best-in-class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.