Director of Clinical Services

The New Jersey Reentry Corporation seeks a highly qualified Clinical Director to oversee and strengthen NJRC’s healthcare, mental health, addiction, and medical-care operations for court-involved persons, formerly incarcerated individuals, persons in addiction treatment and recovery, and veterans.

NJRC is a statewide nonprofit reentry organization providing comprehensive wraparound services across eight sites. Since 2014, NJRC has served 31,651 program participants, secured 14,246 jobs for work-eligible participants, completed 24,339 Medicaid enrollments, made 13,012 addiction treatment referrals, and supported 9,310 psychiatric/behavioral health treatment facility contacts. NJRC’s most recent Annual Report documents a 14.01% reincarceration rate, verified by the New Jersey State Police.

The Clinical Director will oversee NJRC’s clinical and healthcare coordination model across all sites, working closely with NJRC leadership, site directors, case managers, social workers, healthcare providers, hospitals, treatment programs, managed-care organizations, county agencies, and community partners.

The position will focus on linking participants to appropriate medical care, mental health care, addiction treatment, psychiatric services, medication support, benefits access, and ongoing stabilization services. Many NJRC participants experience coexisting morbidities and complex health needs, including depression, anxiety, trauma, substance-use disorder, HIV, hepatitis, chronic illness, and untreated behavioral-health conditions. The Clinical Director will help ensure that participants are connected to care, supported through follow-up, and assisted in maintaining continuity of treatment.

The Clinical Director will have three primary responsibilities:

1. Oversee NJRC’s healthcare, mental health, addiction, and medical-care coordination.
The Clinical Director will strengthen NJRC’s processes for identifying participants' healthcare needs, supporting medical and behavioral health screenings, coordinating referrals, tracking follow-up, and helping participants remain connected to care. This includes attention to mental health, addiction treatment, psychiatric care, medication continuity, HIV, hepatitis, chronic illness, depression, anxiety, trauma, and other coexisting medical and behavioral-health conditions.

2. Strengthen clinical operations across NJRC’s eight sites.
The Clinical Director will work with NJRC leadership, site directors, case managers, social workers, and participant-support staff to create consistent healthcare referral, documentation, follow-up, and case-review protocols across NJRC’s statewide operations. The Clinical Director will help staff understand when a participant requires medical care, mental health care, addiction treatment, psychiatric support, hospital connection, benefits assistance, or more intensive stabilization services.

3. Build and manage healthcare partnerships, referral pathways, and MOUs.
The Clinical Director will develop, coordinate, and maintain partnerships with hospitals, federally qualified health centers, behavioral-health providers, addiction-treatment programs, psychiatric providers, county agencies, managed-care organizations, veteran-service providers, and community-based healthcare organizations. This includes developing practical referral pathways, memoranda of understanding, communication protocols, documentation standards, and follow-up systems to ensure that NJRC participants are effectively linked to care.

This role requires a person who is clinically experienced, mission-driven, detail-oriented, administratively proficient, highly organized, and capable of managing healthcare coordination, documentation, compliance, partner relationships, staff guidance, and operational follow-through.

Required Credentials
Candidates must possess at least one of the following credentials:

MSW
LCSW
Licensed Nurse Practitioner
Registered Nurse

Preferred Qualifications
Experience in behavioral health, psychiatric care coordination, substance-use treatment, reentry services, correctional healthcare, hospital or community health systems, Medicaid, SNAP, benefits navigation, clinical administration, social-work supervision, or work with justice-involved populations is strongly preferred.

Primary Responsibilities

Oversee and strengthen NJRC’s healthcare, mental health, addiction, and medical care coordination across eight sites.

Support medical screenings, behavioral-health screenings, clinical referrals, care navigation, treatment linkages, participant stabilization, medication continuity, and follow-up protocols.

Work with NJRC leadership, site directors, social workers, case managers, and participant-support staff to identify participant healthcare needs and ensure timely referral to appropriate care.

Assist participants with linkages to medical care, mental health care, addiction treatment, psychiatric services, HIV and hepatitis services, chronic-disease care, medication support, and stabilization resources.

Develop consistent documentation, referral, follow-up, and case-review protocols across NJRC sites.

Coordinate with hospitals, treatment programs, federally qualified health centers, behavioral-health providers, psychiatric providers, managed-care organizations, county welfare agencies, veteran-service providers, public agencies, and community-based partners.

Develop and maintain memoranda of understanding, referral agreements, communication protocols, and partner relationships to support participant access to care.

Guide NJRC staff in addressing coexisting participant needs, including depression, anxiety, trauma, substance-use disorder, HIV, hepatitis, chronic illness, psychiatric instability, and other medical or behavioral-health conditions.

Support clinical documentation, case review, quality assurance, data tracking, administrative compliance, and operational follow-through.

Help ensure that participants do not lose access to healthcare, treatment, medication, or stabilization services because of missed referrals, incomplete documentation, unclear follow-up, or lack of coordination.

Compensation
Full-time salary: $150,000 annually
Part-time compensation: to be discussed based upon schedule, scope, and availability