Family Wellness Senior Clinician

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Job Type

Full-time

Description

Family Wellness Senior Clinician Canaan, CT

The Senior Clinician serves as a clinical leader within the Family Wellness program and functions as a role model in the delivery of high-quality care, peer collaboration, and client/family engagement. This role provides advanced clinical services while supporting peers through mentoring, onboarding, and reinforcing best practices in documentation, treatment planning, and solution-focused care. The Senior Clinician ensures treatment aligns with QQT (Quality, Quantity, Timeliness), regulatory standards, payer expectations, and Mountainside's Family Wellness clinical model. The Senior Clinician contributes to a culture of excellence by modeling professional boundaries, demonstrating emotional intelligence, reinforcing program expectations, and supporting clinician development through oversight, coaching, and constructive feedback. This position requires daily in-person interaction with clients and peers.

Your Role:

Clinical Quality and QQT (Quality, Quantity, Timeliness of treatment):

• Maintain high-quality treatment delivery aligned with ASAM criteria and Family Wellness standards.
• Ensure documentation meets QQT expectations and supports medical necessity.
• Partner with Utilization Review to ensure treatment rationale and level of care justification are clinically sound and clearly documented.
• Conduct clinical record reviews and provide feedback/coaching to strengthen quality of care and documentation consistency.
• Demonstrate ethical decision-making and accountability in care delivery.
• Constantly assess the department's current state company-wide and make recommendations to improve the programs, policies, practices, and processes associated with supporting the operational and strategic direction of the rapidly growing organization.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive process improvements and implement best practices to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical and wellness operations processes.
• Review Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) and training documentation resulting from new process rollout to determine effectiveness.
• Identifies, communicates, and escalates issues to clinical leadership promptly and accordingly. Independently problem-solves operational issues and implements appropriate solutions.

Client Care & Family Systems Engagement:

• Provide individual, family, and group therapy using evidence-based and stage-wise interventions.
• Support clients in treatment planning, goal-setting, and recovery skill development.
• Maintain consistent therapeutic contact with families to support engagement and alignment with the treatment process.
• Provide guidance in navigating family systems dynamics, confidentiality, boundaries, and psychoeducation.
• Collaborate with medical, psychiatric, and continuing care staff to ensure integrated, holistic treatment.

Mentorship, Supervision & Staff Development:

• Support new clinicians and interns through onboarding, orientation, and skill development.
• Model therapeutic engagement, documentation standards, and trauma-informed communication.
• Provide structured and informal mentorship that reinforces competency growth.
• Participate in developing clinician strengths by offering constructive coaching and solution-focused feedback.
• Promote a learning culture grounded in professionalism, accountability, and clinical integrity.
• Responsible for developing, mentoring, and coaching direct reports, ensuring a trained, motivated, and professional staff capable of providing efficient and effective operations and exceptional service.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Detox, Clinical, Outpatient, Wellness, Recovery Coaching, Continuing Care, Client Services, Program Development, Medical, Crisis Intervention Team (CIT), Billing and Utilization Review, to ensure alignment and coordination
• Assist with Family Orientation and Family Wellness Workshop programming to ensure excellence in family services.
• Serve as a clinical resource to peers for complex case consultation and family dynamics.
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts aligned with program goals and client outcomes.
• Support the emotional climate and clinical culture of the team by modeling professionalism and resilience.

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with CAC or provisional license and minimum 5 years SUD field experience required
• Master's degree and full licensure (LCSW, LPC, LMFT) strongly preferred

Experience

• Minimum 5 years clinical experience in substance use and/or co-occurring disorders
• Experience in group facilitation and family engagement required
• Experience mentoring peers or supporting clinical onboarding preferred
• Knowledge and experience in the provision of evidence-based integrative care
• Minimum two years' experience in providing clinical services to families/couples

Skills and Abilities

• Experience with a Clinical or Medical EMR program is required.
• Awareness and sensitivity to addiction, socioeconomics, and solid cultural competency.
• Ability to utilize therapeutic skills in cooperation with a service-driven approach to client interactions
• Strong clinical judgment and case conceptualization skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong time management, organization, and boundary-setting skills
• Demonstrated emotional intelligence and professionalism
• Ability to function independently and collaboratively within a team

Compensation:

The base rate of pay for this position is $80,000 - $90,000 per year. Actual pay is determined based on a number of job-related factors including skills, education, training, credentials, experience, scope and complexity of role responsibilities, geographic location, performance, and working conditions.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefit package
• Paid Time Off (which increases after 1 year with Mountainside)
• Paid holidays including a Multicultural Holiday
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Free meals while working on the Canaan campus
• Monthly $75.00 wellness reimbursement. Our Wellness Reimbursement benefit is meant to encourage employees to engage in productive self-care to avoid burnout and compassion fatigue.

About Mountainside:

Mountainside Treatment Center is a dynamic, fast-paced and growing recovery facility that values innovation and an obsession with providing Best in Class service to our Clients. Founded in 1998, we are a leading behavioral healthcare provider dedicated to treating alcohol dependency and drug addiction. Accredited by The Joint Commission and CARF for its high standards of care, Mountainside seeks out passionate and talented individuals to join its staff. We believe that every employee, regardless of position, plays a vital role in our success.

Here at Mountainside Treatment Center, we strongly prefer all employees to be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 (including regularly scheduled boosters) and the Flu as recommended by the CDC.

Mountainside is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Salary Description

$80,000 - $90,000