Executive Director Job at Magnolia Creek Center for Eating Disorders in Columbia

Why You Will Love Working with Us!

Magnolia Creek treats women with eating disorders who also struggle with co-occurring disorders. Our evidence-based methods take a whole-person approach to achieve recovery. Magnolia Creek is peacefully situated on thirty-six wooded acres. The property has a private lake, walking trails, outdoor therapy areas, a firepit, and recovery garden. Our residents live in a comfortable, home-like environment where they feel safe and supported. Columbiana is commutable from Shelby, Calera, Chelsea, Montevallo, Alabaster, Pelham, and commute is against traffic from Birmingham area.

What We Offer

• Collaborative environment dedicated to clinical excellence
• Multiple Career Development Pathways
• Company Supported Continuing Education & Certification
• Multiple Health Plan Design Options Available
• Flexible Dental & Vision Plan Options
• 100% Company Paid EAP Emotional Well-Being Support
• 100% Company Paid Critical Illness (with health enrollment plan)
• 100% Company Paid Life & ADD
• 401K with Company Match
• Company-Sponsored HSA, FSA, & DSA Tax Savings Accounts
• Generous Team Member Referral Program
• Parental Leave

How You will Contribute

The Executive Director has overall responsibility for the clinical, fiscal, and operational success of a specialized behavioral healthcare treatment program. The Executive Director shall have oversite across multiple levels of care and is responsible for clinical quality and program integrity. Position coordinates day-to-day operations to achieve operational goals and provides clinical oversight, ensuring the delivery of clinically excellent, client centered care.

Relationships and Contacts

Within the organization: Reporting to the Group CEO, the Executive Director provides leadership to all staff located at Magnolia Creek and works collaboratively with network support team members and the governing body.

Outside the organization: Builds and maintains strong professional relationships with clinical and healthcare providers, community partners, vendors, and clients/families.

Essential Responsibilities

• Collaborates with the network support teams and the governing body to develop and implement clinical programs and operational objectives that promote program growth and respond to changes in the market.
• Maintains accountability for creating a culture and environment that is focused on fulfilling operational objectives in alignment with the treatment program’s mission, vision, and values.
• Ensures achievement of business objectives through day-to-day operational, financial, clinical, and regulatory oversite.
• Effectively manages resources to meet the needs of clients while maximizing resources and minimizing waste.
• Promotes professional growth and development of staff throughout all levels of the facility, championing effective teamwork and critical thinking, recommending training and development plans, as appropriate.
• Collaborates with clinical and operations leaders to ensure compliance with all licensures, accreditation, contracts, state, and federal laws.
• Ensures the development, implementation, and enforcement of all policies and procedures, including patient rights.
• Monitors and continuously improves clinical program quality through research and application of industry best practices.
• Establishes a welcoming environment and strong culture of customer service throughout the program.
• Promotes systems of communication and collaboration between Admissions, Business Development, Utilization Review, Finance, and Clinical teams.
• Provides supervision to Clinical Directors, overseeing all aspects of clinical care from admission through discharge.
• Reviews and approves admissions ensuring the admissions process is smooth, efficient, and customer focused.
• Leads and promotes active communication with department leaders around all actual or potential problems or issues that could result in risk exposure or customer dissatisfaction.
• Provides regular supervision for staff, and is to discuss challenges, successes, enhance effectiveness and efficiency of procedures and operation of the program.
• Collaborates with leadership to ensure proper interpretation and fulfillment of position functions, responsibilities, authority, and relationships.
• Balances team and individual responsibilities; exhibits objectively and openness to others’ views; gives and welcomes feedback; puts team success over own interests.
• Manages difficult or emotional customer service situations, responds promptly the needs of clients, families, and referral partners, solicits feedback to improve service; responds to requests and meets commitments.
• Communicates clearly and concisely with clients, families, referral partners, and all members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Leads treatment team meetings and collaborates with UR team to ensure documentation meets standards necessary to meet client’s level of care.
• Ensures compliance with all licensures, accreditations, contracts, state, and federal laws.
• Leads and participates in PI initiatives, monitors, and reports on KPIs, adjusts operations accordingly to organizational objectives.

What We're Seeking

• Position requires a Masters Degree in social work, counseling, or related field with a LCSW, LPC or LMFT preferred .
• Position requires a minimum of two (2) years’ experience in a behavioral healthcare setting, preferably with clients with eating disorders.
• Experience working in a corporate managed behavioral healthcare environment, strongly preferred.

Other Requirements

• Position requires incumbent to have a valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record.
• Clearance of criminal background, TB test, and any other mandatory state/federal requirements.
• Current CPR and First Aid certification

Magnolia Creek Treatment Center provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, genetic information, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Magnolia Creek Treatment Center reserves the rights to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the organization desires. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The employment relationship remains “At-Will.”