Clinical Programs & Staff Lead — Associate Director

Ava Health; Grand Junction (CO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Ava Health is seeking an Associate Clinical Director to oversee clinical operations, supervise staff, and coordinate programming across residential and recovery settings in Colorado. The role may include a small clinical caseload and active involvement in program development.

The position emphasizes leadership, documentation quality, and cross-department collaboration to ensure safe, effective client care and adherence to treatment planning standards.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in counseling, social work, psychology, or related behavioral health field.
• Current independent behavioral health licensure (LPC, LCSW, LMFT, or equivalent).
• Experience providing behavioral health treatment, including individual and group services.
• Strong clinical documentation and treatment-planning skills.
• Experience with clinical supervision, consultation, training, or staff development.
• Strong organizational, leadership, communication, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision, consultation, coaching, and support to assigned clinical staff.
• Manage the clinical program schedule and coordinate staff coverage for groups and clinical programming.
• Coordinate and facilitate clinical meetings and support effective treatment-team communication.
• Monitor clinical documentation for quality, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Ensure clinicians maintain current treatment plans, progress notes, group documentation, discharge documentation, and other required clinical records.
• Conduct routine chart reviews and provide feedback and corrective guidance regarding documentation.
• Support clinicians with case conceptualization, treatment planning, client safety, behavioral concerns, boundaries, and clinical decision-making.
• Collaborate with Nursing, Residential, Admissions/Intake, Case Management, Utilization Review, psychiatric providers, and other departments to coordinate client care.
• Coordinate communication between the clinical team and Residential staff, working closely with Residential Leads to support clinical oversight, consistent programming, client care, and implementation of treatment recommendations within the residential setting.
• Provide Recovery Residence oversight, including collaboration with residential leadership regarding programming, client expectations, behavioral concerns, safety, and continuity of care.
• Support effective communication regarding admissions, treatment needs, safety concerns, level-of-care transitions, and discharge planning.
• Provide leadership and clinical support in response to emergency behaviors, behavioral escalations, safety concerns, and clinical crises occurring at the Crossroads, Sanford, or Recovery Residence properties, coordinating with appropriate staff and leadership as needed.
• Facilitate clinical groups and provide program coverage when needed.
• Maintain a small clinical caseload of Clients or Families when needed.
• Support onboarding, training, and professional development of clinical and residential staff as appropriate.
• Assist with implementation of clinical policies, workflows, programming, and quality-improvement initiatives.
• Identify and elevate significant clinical, staffing, documentation, safety, or operational concerns to the Clinical Director.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Leadership

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Documentation

Staff development

Communication

Crisis management

Program coordination

Education

Master’s degree in Behavioral Health

Job description

Ava Health is seeking an Associate Clinical Director to oversee clinical operations, supervise staff, and coordinate programming across residential and recovery settings in Colorado. The role may include a small clinical caseload and active involvement in program development.

The position emphasizes leadership, documentation quality, and cross-department collaboration to ensure safe, effective client care and adherence to treatment planning standards.