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CLINICAL DIRECTOR - Behavioral Health

Mental Health TherapyFull-Time

Listed compensation

$95k-$125k

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Job Description

Responsibilities

About Foundations Recovery Network

We are the premier provider of integrated treatment for addiction and mental health issues. Our focus on professionalism, clear communication and accuracy lets our treatment teams connect daily about each patient’s needs. We prioritize social and life skills development as well as health, wellness, and holistic approaches to recovery.

Our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) offers comprehensive, integrated outpatient treatment with flexible daytime and evening programs to address addiction and mental health issues in a supportive atmosphere. The integrative and holistic approach to our patient treatment includes group therapy, individual therapy, family therapy, yoga therapy, acupuncture massage therapy, and medication management.

Our patient-centered care and emphasis on education sets us apart from others in the industry. If you have a passion for helping others, find hope and healing, we want to hear from you!

You Can Expect Our Employees To

  • Prioritize patient well-being
  • Be open, honest, and empathetic
  • Be committed to patient-centered care
  • Be supportive, compassionate, and respectful
  • Be focused on patient recovery mindset

Thrive on Working Collaboratively with Others

Take on complex challenges and approach each patient with empathy, professionalism, and consistency while ensuring that treatment plan, safety, and individualized care remain the top priority

Additionally, We Will Provide

  • Competitive compensation
  • Generous Paid Time Off
  • 401K with company match and discounted stock plan
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug Plan, etc.

Qualifications

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Ensures the integrity of the core clinical product
  • Ensures use of current, relevant evidence-based practice techniques (DBT, trauma treatment, etc.). Assists, coaches and supports the clinical staff in using evidence-based treatment models
  • Champions and oversees the full integration of Patient Centered Care

Provides supervision over clinical/program activities, develops and implements plans for enhancing productivity, compliance and profitability

Supervises clinical/program staff, including facilitating treatment team meetings, conducting staff meetings and ensuring provision of individual supervision. Includes scheduling of staff to balance both quality and efficiency of coverage

Oversees program schedule to meet the unique needs of patient population and any unique service groups, based on level of care, balancing both quality and efficiency

Insures clinical documentation meets both qualitative and quantitative standards set by the company, 3rd party payers, and DHCS

Establishes systems for both quantitative auditing and qualitative peer review that ensures that standards are maintained over time

  • Completes monthly, quarterly and all other reports as required in a timely manner
  • Consult with Call Center on unusual admissions
  • Handles individual therapeutic cases and leads therapy and support groups as needed
  • Effectively provides required supervision to interns in order for those individuals to obtain licensure

Work closely with Human Resources to ensure regular, consistent, structured training of new staff and annual updates of the core components of our model (Motivational Interviewing, Stages of Change and Patient Centered Care) as well as other required trainings to meet regulatory standards (HIPPA, Risk Management, etc.)

Attends and participates in meetings as directed by CEO

Must Have an Understanding of Diverse Cultures

Overall responsibility for referral source communication. Insures that the patient care coordinator, primary therapist, etc., provide regular and comprehensive clinical updates to all referral sources

Investigates and resolves customer service complaints regarding clinical services. Such complaints may originate from internal staff members, patients, patient family members, or referral sources

  • Regularly provides training to internal staff members on critical clinical processes and models
  • Performs all other duties as assigned

Education and Experience

  • Master’s degree in psychology or social work required, PhD preferred
  • 5 years supervisory/managerial experience preferred
  • Minimum of 5 years experience in a clinical residential setting
  • Must maintain active state license LMFT or LCSW

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $13.4 billion in 2022.

During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 94,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries.

Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. uhs.com.

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical supervisionStaff managementRegulatory complianceHIPAACrisis interventionTherapeutic group facilitation

Mental Health Therapy Career Context

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 9.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$110k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $99k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Mental Health Therapy by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed pay$95k–$125kMental Health Therapy median $95k (middle half $85k–$104k)46 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$99k in purchasing powerCalifornia index 110.7 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Mental Health Therapy listings in California17 active151 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Mental Health Therapy pay trend+9.3% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Work-life snapshot

3.0/ 10
Listing-based score
  • On-site
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About UHS

Hospitals and Health Care
Aiken, South Carolina
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive compensation
Generous Paid Time Off
401K with company match and discounted stock plan
Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug Plan

Living in San Francisco

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.77M≈ 18.6× annual pay
Typical market rent
$4,784/mo≈ 60% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
30 min
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.