Director of Programming - Pediatric Behavioral Health Center

Under limited direction, responsible for the planning, direction, and coordination of pediatric Behavioral Health patient programming in the Oklahoma Children's Hospital. Maximize efficiency of daily operations through proactively identifying opportunities for process improvement, facilitating process changes, understanding and problem-solving operational issues, and supporting or leading program related projects. The Director of Programming will work with and direct a team of experienced Mental Health professionals including psychologists, clinical social workers, and others including trainees.

Essential Responsibilities

• Responsible for determining and implementing the highest standard, state of the art behavioral health care to children and adolescent participants, including behavioral health therapies and case management.
• Provides leadership to the program staff to ensure all services are delivered according to local, state and federal laws and in compliance with contractual requirements.
• Ensures that patient and program goals (program, financial, personnel, professional development, and trainings) are met in accordance with established contract program policies and procedures.
• Provides general supervision of counseling staff through regularly scheduled multidisciplinary case conferences, direct supervision, in-service training and staffing meetings. Provides high level guidance on the therapeutic programming implemented and scheduling of such activities in each location of care.
• Manages performance through regular reviews for direct reports at regular intervals.
• Provides leadership in managing, facilitating, and communicating organizational goals both internally and externally.
• Creates and executes staffing strategies to increase efficiency, consistency, quality, and effectiveness in a variety of settings, while reducing cost and manual work. Partners with Finance, HR, and department leaders on target and surge planning, and proactive recruiting of employed and contingent labor.
• Works in collaboration with VP - Pediatric Behavioral Health, Pediatric Behavioral Health Medical Director(s) and Director of Clinical Operations Pediatric Behavioral Health Center to develop safety programs for delivery of quality, effective care that is safe for patients, staff, and visitors.
• Works closely with Quality Management, Regulatory and other departments to support and manage overall preparedness to ensure organization compliance with all TJC, OSDH, DHS, ODMHSAS and other standards.
• Responsible for the overall direction and ensures that goals and objectives are met. Makes ultimate decisions regarding the hiring and termination of employees of any assigned departments.
• Recommends, develops and implements policies and procedures as needed across the health system as appropriate. Ensures all policies, procedures and requirements of regulatory and accrediting agencies are met where appropriate and assigned.
• Identify systems opportunities for improvement, assess the impact, makes recommendations on the need for process improvements that will optimize operations, and leads implementation.
• Researches and transfers best practices to support project management and performance improvement projects and renders reports based on analysis and research.
• Serves as a resource to community agencies and organizations as applicable.
• Creates executive level presentations, and maintains databases and dashboards designed to facilitate clinical leadership planning, evaluation and decision making. Develops associated infrastructure to ensure that accurate and current data is available.
• Supports Executive Leadership in activities of strategic planning and measurement/communication of outcomes, and is responsible for related projects.
• Participates in facility and system budget planning.
• Identifies opportunities for collaboration with the College of Social Work, and any other Health Science Center Discipline necessary to achieve goal.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Master's degree in a healthcare related field required, mental health discipline preferred.

Experience: 5 - 7 years progressive leadership experience required, including experience across the full continuum of care in a behavioral health setting to include inpatient and outpatient services, of which a minimum one (1) year experience served in a pediatric setting.

License(s)/Certification(s)/Registration(s) Required: Applicant must possess or obtain within ninety (90) days of hire:

• Current license from the Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), OR
• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), OR
• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), OR
• Oklahoma State Board of Examiners of Psychologists Licensed Health Service Psychologist.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• A firm grounding in the principles of behavioral health administration and must be capable of organizing, managing, promoting, and thoroughly evaluating an inpatient and outpatient pediatric behavioral health program.
• Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
• A commitment to patient centered evidenced based treatment and care.
• Commitment to systematic and long-term efforts to recruit and retain qualified personnel.
• Ability to effectively organize time and prioritize responsibilities.

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