Corporate Director of Risk Position Available In Williamson, Tennessee

PURPOSE STATEMENT

The Corporate Director of Risk leads the development, implementation, and oversight of an enterprise risk management program throughout the assigned facilities. As a mentor to various internal stakeholders across the organizational hierarchy, the Corporate Director of Risk is responsible for promoting a culture of accountability, safety, and excellence throughout the enterprise. The Corporate Director of Risk is charged with ensuring superior patient safety and experience as measured by incident volumes/rates, management of incident trends, completion of compliant and orderly investigations, and compliance with state and federal laws and regulations and accreditation standards. As such, the Corporate Director of Risk is responsible for providing expert guidance and advice on all aspects of risk policy development; risk management program implementation; critical incident reporting; incident trends and mitigation plans; achievement of Acadia’s expected practices regarding patient/staff safety and experience; and on-going regulatory readiness strategies in all assigned Acadia facilities. Through routine physical presence, remote data and documentation monitoring, and intentional sharing of deep subject-matter expertise, the Divisional Risk Specialist will ensure a proactive focus on safety and excellence within the assigned facilities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. Manage the Divisional Risk Specialists who are responsible for monitoring the day-to-day regulatory readiness, patient safety, and service excellence in the assigned facilities. 2. Support and teach Divisional Risk Specialists to monitor daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual incident volumes and trends at the assigned facilities, identifying deviations from expected practice and enterprise targets. Organize support activities for facilities in need, including on-site presence by Risk L1s. 3. Ensure Divisional Risk Specialists and facility leadership are proactively analyzing incident trends and that Divisional Risk Specialists are assisting facilities with developing effective, multidisciplinary plans of action to remediate escalating incident trends and patient/staff safety risks. 4. Develop risk management competencies, new-hire onboarding training, and ongoing learning and development opportunities for Divisional Risk Specialists, facility risk leader, and other leadership which is relevant to the assigned service line and associated regulatory/accreditation bodies. 5. Collaborate with Division, Group, and Corporate entities and external parties to ensure strategic risk management and patient safety initiatives are fully executed at the facility level. Facilitate effective communication with facility and division leadership regarding key risk management activities and initiatives. 6. Growth

• lead the risk management workstreams associated with successful new facility growth. This could be in the form of joint venture partnerships, mergers-and-acquisitions, de novo facility growth, and bed expansions. 7. Innovation
• ensure thorough adoption of Acadia’s selected technology platforms to support patient safety, patient experience, and superior clinical outcomes. 8. Support and teach facility leadership
• specifically CEOs, COOs, and Risk leadership
• to sustainably implement best-practices in risk management as evidenced by measurable incident trend reductions in assigned facilities.

9. Communicate with facility Risk leader to receive notification or information of adverse events, including coaching staff with mitigation efforts and investigation requirements. Respond to serious incidents by providing direction and guidance to maximize safety and minimize potential liability in the event of a potential loss. 10. Ensure proper facility reporting of violations or potential violations to duly authorized enforcement agencies as appropriate and/or required. 11. Evaluate key metrics and create reports related to the Risk Management Program for various audiences, including facility leadership, senior Operations leadership, and Acadia’s Board of Directors. 12. Analyze risk related data to better understand potential risk and actual risk and anticipate losses. 13. Analyze incident data to track and identify trends to reduce risk exposures, prevent incident re-occurrence/loss, and improve the quality of care. 14. Make recommendations to reduce risk. 15. Review documents provided by facility related to Risk Management, including investigations submitted by a facility to assess risk. Communicates with facility to gather additional documents as needed and ensure implementation of interventions to reduce risk. 16. Collaborate with other departments to promote the principles of enterprise risk management. 17. Innovation

• ensure thorough adoption of Acadia’s selected technology platforms to support patient and staff safety and experience.

18. Respond to alleged violations of rules, regulations, policies, & Codes of Conduct by evaluating and recommending investigations as appropriate. Coordinate resolution of ethics reports with appropriate members of the Quality team, Compliance team, Human Resources, and/or General Counsel (Legal team). 19. Develop and evaluate the goals of the Company and prioritize the work in accordance with the strategic objectives of Acadia Healthcare. 20. Maintain regular communication with leadership at assigned facilities regarding clinical, patient safety, patient experience, and risk management issues. 21. Work collaboratively with corporate staff, physicians, Quality, Legal, and other corporate leaders to address performance improvement and safety issues. 22. This position will be designed as a remote opportunity. 23. Travel

• anticipated up to 50%

OTHER FUNCTIONS

• Performs other duties as assigned.

STANDARD EXPECTATIONS

• Must be able to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously within inflexible time frames.
• Complies with organizational policies, procedures, performance improvement initiatives and maintains organizational and industry policies regarding confidentiality.
• Communicate clearly and effectively to person(s) receiving services and their family members, guests and other members of the health care team.
• Develops constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and maintains them over time.
• Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect and cooperation among team members.
• Maintains regular and predictable attendance.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare or related field required; Master’s degree strongly preferred.
• A minimum of five years’ experience in psychiatric healthcare operations at the administrative/leadership level. Previous Medicare/Medicaid Operations/healthcare industry experience preferred.
• Knowledge of relevant Joint Commission, CMS, CARF, DEA, and state/local standards and regulations.
• Experience in conducting complex, healthcare-focused investigations required. Experience conducting root-cause analyses and Failure Mode and Effects Analyses preferred.
• Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office; especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of office administration procedures with the ability to operate most standard office equipment.
• Ability to work professionally with sensitive, proprietary data & information while maintaining confidentiality.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to interact effectively and professionally with individuals at all levels; both internal and external.
• Exercises sound judgment in responding to inquiries; understands when to route inquiries to next level.
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills and superior attention to detail.
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously within inflexible time frames. Ability to adapt to frequent priority changes.
• Capable of working within established policies, procedures and practices prescribed by the organization.
• English sufficient to provide and receive instructions/directions.

LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS

• CPHRM preferred but not required

SUPERVISORY REQUIREMENTS

Supervises a team of employees We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws. AHCORP #LI-TB1