About the role

  • Crisis Residential Unit Director overseeing operations and clinical guidance for a 16-bed crisis center in Pontiac, MI. Ensuring compliance with safety standards and managing multidisciplinary staff.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee daily, 24-hour operations of the 16 bed Crisis Residential Unit and ensure compliance with licensing, safety, and agency standards.
  • Coordinate 24-hour operations, including ensuring adequate staff coverage
  • Provide clinical oversight to support effective crisis stabilization, treatment planning, and safe transitions.
  • Participate in the hiring of new staff members to fill vacancies.
  • Supervise, train, and support multidisciplinary staff, ensuring their duties are being performed per their job description.
  • Develop and lead training to address barriers and gaps in knowledge, and to ensure staff stay up to date with new information and policy updates.
  • Provide annual staff evaluations and ensure staff compliance with all organizational training/certifications.
  • Ensure the daily active treatment occurs per the posted schedule, and barriers to completion are addressed with staff.
  • Assist in evaluating client’s general medical and mental health status, providing emergency assessment as needed.
  • Monitor program performance, documentation quality, and improvement needs, auditing and reporting on findings as required by leadership.
  • Coordinate with internal departments, community partners, and referral sources to promote crisis residential offerings, and engage in mutual partnerships for client outpatient supports post discharge.
  • Address operational issues, high ‑ risk situations, and after-hours needs as required.
  • Maintain cleanliness of the facility, and oversee the inventory of supplies.
  • Ensure staff document appropriately within the EHR and audit their work accordingly to ensure accuracy.
  • Provide direct services to clients as required to maintain regulatory requirements.
  • Perform additional duties as assigned by leadership

Requirements

  • Education: Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, or Psychology, with full licensure required.
  • Training Requirements (licenses, programs, or certificates): BLS
  • Recipient Right’s De-escalation training
  • Completion of agency-specific onboarding and crisis intervention training
  • Ongoing professional development in trauma-informed care and recovery coaching
  • Experience Requirements: Minimum of five years of leadership experience.
  • Minimum of five years of experience working in a crisis environment.
  • Preferred Experience: Experience in working with Electronic Health Record systems
  • Experience in customer service
  • Experience in crisis de-escalation
  • Experience working with adults with severe mental illness, substance use disorder or intellectual/developmental disabilities
  • Experience working with children with serious emotional disturbance
  • Background in recovery-oriented or trauma-informed care environments
  • Job Specific Competencies/Skills: Interpersonal Skills
  • Strong Organizational Skills
  • De-escalation and conflict resolution
  • Clinical knowledge of mental health and suicide prevention
  • Strong time management
  • Ability to promote a teamwork mentality with staff to increase staff retention and morale
  • Ability to remain calm and supportive in high-stress situations
  • Flexibility to adapt to evolving needs and schedules
  • High emotional intelligence and empathy
  • Strong critical thinking and decision-making abilities
  • Knowledge Requirements: HIPPA
  • Microsoft 365
  • Recipient Right’s
  • Mental Health Code
  • Medicaid Manual

Benefits

  • Must be available for meetings and events which may occur outside of standard office hours.
  • Work performed primarily in a crisis center environment.
  • The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Job title

Crisis Residential Unit Director – CRU

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Location requirements

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