Director of Recovery

Cummins Behavioral Health Systems, Inc. is seeking a licensed therapist with a background in social work and/or mental healthcare, and with leadership experience for a rewarding and challenging position as Director of Recovery.

Job Summary: 

The Director of Recovery is a member of the clinical operations leadership team and serves in a transformative leadership role related to organizational leadership, continuous improvement, and continuous learning.  The Director of Recovery oversights the Lifelong Recovery Program which includes Recovery First and Lasting Recovery.  Participating in strategic change initiatives both within the organization and with state level initiatives, this position serves as a subject matter expert in substance use disorders, group treatment, peer recovery specialists, and recovery from co-occurring disorders, guiding quality review and performance improvement initiatives.   

Essential Leadership Responsibilities: 

Essential to being a member of Cummins' Leadership Team, involves incorporating the following essential leadership responsibilities in all actions: 

• Mission-driven Decision-making: Uphold and steward Cummins' Mission, Vision, and Values in all actions, decisions, and interactions with others. 
• Shared Leadership: Collaborate efforts with other members of Cummins' leadership team and departments to achieve goals as a collective team. 

• Organizational Culture:  Build and sustain an organizational culture that values lifelong learning, continuous improvement, cultural humility, and inclusion. 
• Feedback-Informed:  Maintain communication networks with community stakeholder and internal employees; Consider feedback to drive enhanced performance. 

Essential Functions: 

Regular and reliable attendance is necessary to perform the following essential functions of the position. 

Department Oversight and Performance:  Consistent with organizationally defined leadership and management best practices, ensure delivery of quality clinical care and systemic consistency throughout assigned department. Lead the department in achieving successful outcomes and contribute to the success of the program. 

• For area of subject matter expertise, oversight evidence-based practices and facilitate implementation into standard care. 
• Enforce organizational policy, procedure, and risk management practices. 
• Participate in the development and/or oversight of grants and funding proposals. 
• Provide individual and group clinical supervision within subject matter expertise to meet unmet clinical needs within programs and amongst leaders. 

Program Development and Change: Through the organizationally defined, ongoing planning process used to establish projects and evaluate their outcome, participate in program development and planning to establish organizational best practices.   

• Participate in organizational annual, strategic, and budget plan development and ensure achievement of the goals. 
• Attend Leadership Council, Risk Management Council, and Systems meetings representing the department. 
• Lead Best Practice Councils; Participate in project development, task groups, and other organizationally established program development initiatives. 

• Develop, review, revise, and implement organizational policy and procedure to be consistent with the everchanging external environment. 
• May develop and review contacts and memoranda of understanding. 

Community Engagement and Mission Advocacy: Build positive, collaborative partnerships with community members and stakeholders. 

• Participate in strategic community engagement to strengthen the organization's collaborative involvement with other community entities interconnected to substance use disorders, group treatment, peer recovery specialists, and recovery from co-occurring disorders. 

• Represent Cummins at state and/ or regional committees. 

Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement:  Identify risk through internal auditing.  Lead organizational PI initiatives and ensure successful outcomes. 

• Participate in organizational audits from external credentialing and accreditation bodies and lead performance improvement initiatives that may follow. 
• Conduct routine audits to ensure compliance with accountability standards and communicate findings through organizationally defined systems.   

• Participate in Quality Assurance Council. 

Professional Development and Competency:  Ensure competency and compliance with internal privileging and credentialing of employees through organizationally defined systems with a focus upon the scope of substance use disorders, group treatment, peer recovery specialists, and recovery from co-occurring disorders. 

• Evaluate and provide coaching to providers and leaders as related to provider competency and performance within scope. 
• Participate in the development and implementation of organizational training plan, with emphasis on departmental scope. 

• Provide supervision to front line leaders in department. 
• Participate in the monthly Team Leader Meeting. 
• Create and provide professional development trainings through teaching during new employee orientation, as a part of the organizational training plan, and to support other leaders' training needs throughout the organization. 

Recruitment and Retention: Recruit, hire, and retain qualified employees. 

• Participate in the development and implementation of organizational recruitment plan. 
• Interview applicants for open positions and collaborate with others organizational systems to onboard the new employee. 
• Participate in the development and implementation of organizational and divisional retention plans.  

Training and Development: 

Participates in continuing education programs and in-service training consistent with professional licensure and internal standards or as deemedappropriate to increase personal and professional effectiveness and improve the service quality provided to the people we serve.  

Education and/or Experience:   

1. Licensed Provider (LCSW, LMHC, LCAC, or LMFT) with a Master's degree  

 Skills, Knowledge & Abilities: 

• Clinical Skills:  Advanced knowledge of clinical standards, best practices, behavioral health services, and modalities of treatment within the scope of this position and associated with professional licensure; Clinical knowledge related to quality of care for the scope of this position; Knowledge of community mental health services and resources on a local, state and national level; Ability to guide the organization in meeting and exceeding standards; Ability to follow corporate guidelines related to policies and procedures. 
• Strategic Thinking and Foresight Skills: Ability to develop strategic, forward-looking plans; Ability to factor in the needs of every part of an organization; Ability to analyze organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. 
• Systems Thinking Skills:Ability to effectively work and build working relationships cross-functionally; Ability to make decisions in the best interest of the organization and the people we serve; Ability to approach work through collaborating with a team; Ability to seek understanding without jumping to judgements or conclusions; Ability to consider all interconnected departments and steps of a workflow; Ability to get a team to work across functions as needed.  

• Conflict Resolution Skills:  Ability to have crucial conversations that seek resolution to disputes; Ability to proactively work with people from other teams, branches, or departments to ensure workflows and ideas are optimally aligned and goals are shared;Ability to maintain collaborative relationships with organizational leaders. 
• Prioritization Skills: Ability to prioritize tasks and efficiently use time. 
• Emotional Intelligence Leadership Skills:Ability to effectively communicate in writing and orally;High level of emotional intelligence to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict;Ability to work with diverse teams; Proficiency and commitment to internal and external customer service; Ability to interact with courtesy and respect; Recognized as one who can adapt and positively lead in a changing, sometimes in a disruptive environment;Ability to develop professional relationships involving direct communication;Ability to communicate openly, clearly, and in a spirit of cooperation.  Recognized by others as having a positive, engaging leadership attitude. 
• Employee Development Skills:  Ability to lead through teaching and coaching; Ability to empower employees to grow and professionally develop.

 Compensation and benefits:

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent work life balance (paid time off and holidays)
• Professional and Leadership Training and advancement
• Diverse career tracts
• Comprehensive benefit package
• Clinical support from leaders in field
• Matching contributions to your 401K program

As a proud recipient of Platinum level certification for Mental Health America's Bell Seal for Workplace Mental Health, Cummins Behavioral Health Systems puts mental health at the forefront of employee health and well-being.

Cummins is one of the State's top-rated community mental/behavioral health and addiction services centers in Customer Satisfaction as recognized by the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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