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Providence
Director Behavioral Health - Portland, OR
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What they do
A Clinical Director directs and manages a medical practice, clinic, hospital, or other clinical setting. Organizes and manages of staff physicians, policy implementation, and ensures that standards for medical care are communicated and maintained.
$154,384 / year median in Oregon
+14% projected growth
Job Description
Description Calling All Esteemed Leaders! Are you a behavioral health leader who is passionate about advancing quality care, developing high-performing teams, and strengthening access to behavioral health services across the continuum of care? Do you thrive in complex healthcare environments where operational excellence, regulatory compliance, workforce development, and community collaboration are essential to success? If so, we invite you to explore this leadership opportunity with Providence. The Role The Director of Behavioral Health assumes 24-hour administrative responsibility for the operational, clinical, and fiscal management of all behavioral health services within their scope through direct or indirect reporting lines. Ensures compliance with all regulations (county, state, and federal requirements) and regulatory bodies, and oversees all regulatory body on-site surveys and investigations. Builds and maintains a strong and collaborative work environment for a large multidisciplinary behavioral health team of psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, chemical dependency counselors, peer support personnel, and administrators while fostering positive and collaborative relationships with ministry medical and specialty care teams to ensure quality and appropriate care outcomes for patients with behavioral health conditions. Seeks, develops, and maintains relationships with community-based providers and organizations and works collaboratively with the Regional Behavioral Health team to develop, implement, and regularly assess novel programs and services in support of Ministry and local strategic plans and action plans. The Director of Behavioral Health may have oversight of service lines in outpatient, hospital outpatient departments, or within the acute ministry as assigned by the Senior Director of Behavioral Health. What You'll Do Dynamically and strategically adjusts complement of clinical and administrative staff to support changing patient census and acuity. Allocates staff resources to ensure adherence to productivity goals and processes. Provides formal recommendations to Regional Behavioral Health Leadership regarding workforce planning, recruitment and retention of well-trained and competent caregivers. Ensures ongoing professional development of the caregiver workforce. Bears direct responsibility for the services and programs overseen annual budget and ensures strict budgetary compliance and strategic utilization of all local resources. Oversees development and monitoring of the BH annual budget for the assigned services lines and provides recommendations for budgetary increases/reductions to manage changing climate of behavioral health care directly to the Senior Director of Behavioral Health. Develops and implements practical strategies to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve quality of care. Adheres to the operating and capital budgets of multiple cost centers and regularly evaluates direct and indirect costs. Monitors financial reports for budgetary compliance of multiple cost centers. Collaborates with Regional Behavioral Health Senior Director to rapidly effect operational changes to address variances in budget. Collaborates closely with the Senior Director of Behavioral Health to ensure cost-effective, superlative care delivery across multiple clinical services/programs. Develops and oversees quality-assurance and quality improvement programs of the Ministry BH services and programs overseen. Communicates clearly and efficiently with a diverse population of internal and external stakeholders, including Ministry executive leadership, clinical and administrative workforce, and patients as directed by Senior Director of Behavioral Health. Facilitates meetings with key service line stakeholders and community partners as needed to develop BH strategies, execute on identified collaborations to improve patient throughput and outcomes, in collaboration with the Regional Senior Director of Behavioral Health. Works closely with the inpatient Behavioral Health Managers and Director, Emergency Department BH Manager and Director, and inpatient Medical Leadership teams to achieve program, quality, and financial goals while maintaining the highest safety standards as necessary in positive furtherance of assigned services lines. Assesses effectiveness and efficiency of delivery of services. Develops and implements programmatic plans. Integrates the behavioral health services into the continuum of care, as appropriate to service line needs; provides leadership and direction in accordance with the organizational and departmental goals and objectives. Provides direction, guidance, and assistance to Behavioral Health Core leaders and caregivers through initiation and support of quality management activities, ensuring adherence to hospital and regulatory requirements. Communicates updates to the Senior/Executive leadership team in collaboration and at the direction of Regional Behavioral Health. Initiates service line corrective action when necessary. Develops strategic plans and ensures their successful implementation, including maximizing access to treatment services and improving efficiencies while maintaining quality outcomes and the patient care experience. Bears chief responsibility for representation to ensure service line compliance with regulatory standards, policies, and procedures and rapidly responds to all regulations and directives of The Joint Commission, Oregon Department of Public Health, and Center for Medicare Services. Serves as the facility's subject-matter expert for current and future legislative directives on behavioral health in collaboration with Regional Behavioral Health Leadership. Interprets regulatory requirements for quality management and coordinates processes to support requirements. Directs development and implementation of quality and utilization standards across the continuum of care. Develops and monitors performance-improvement, safety, quality, and regulatory practices. Works closely with Quality and Risk Management to ensure compliance with all safety and quality standards. Bears chief responsibility for investigation and response in all formal grievances. Bears chief responsibility for managing and interpreting service goals, patient-satisfaction metrics, and quality outcomes to assigned service line caregivers. Exhibits a comprehensive understanding of service demands for a diverse and expansive marketplace. Possesses a demonstrated ability to cultivate strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders in collaboration with Regional Behavioral Health. Establishes and cultivates healthy and productive professional relationships with providers and other stakeholders. Supports contracting, provider-relations, marketing, and other organizational services as directed by the Senior Director of Behavioral Health. Establishes and cultivates professional relationships with other community hospitals, agencies, professional organizations, and academic institutions. Collaborates effectively with community organizations in support of joint best practice models. Supports the Ministry's access, growth and viability through community outreach and engagement. What You'll Bring Education & Credentials Master's Degree in Nursing, Psychology, Social Work, or Counseling.