Behavioral Health Administrator

Essen Medical Associates•Bronx, NY

4d•$80,000 - $90,000

About The Position

Department of Behavioral Health at Essen has immediate opening for Full time Administrator for Outpatient, Nursing home and House call Operations. Opportunity to collaborate with multidisciplinary team at Essen. All sites have strong participation with Essen Health home care coordination, with potential innovative pilot projects. Essen’s Leadership team is in process of expanding Behavioral Health Service line with a vision to Integrate Behavioral Health into all the faucets of Essen Health care: Office division, Nursing homes, Care Coordination and House calls. In order to achieve this, we would be building and implementing some pilot/novel customized behavioral health projects, based on scientific literature, to cater to different services. All these projects will be patient centric, cost effective, fully regulated and scalable. The Administrator dept will be leading the expansions and implementing the vision of the Chief Behavioral Health Officer. He/She would be responsible for the operational oversight and to collaborate with other disciplines for the smooth running of the departmental activities.

Requirements

Master’s degree in health care administration such as MPH, MPA, MHA, MBA
Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 5+ Years of Behavioral Health Administration
Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Follows office procedures about HIPAA documents and adheres to HIPAA privacy mandates; adheres to confidentiality policy; demonstrates infection control compliance relevant to job responsibilities: e.g. standard precautions

Responsibilities

Designated Operations Leader for Behavioral Health Department at Essen
Responsible for patient population and assigned staff
Plans, organizes and coordinates, and evaluates behavioral health departmental activities
Provides direct support and guidance to the staff in their development managerially
Directly Reports to CEO, COO and CBHO and works under their supervision
The BH Administrator will ensure success of the BH operations through quality enhancement, cost containment, revenue growth and development of strong relationships with staff, board members and leaders across other departments.
Responsible for integration of BH services across office, Nursing home and House calls.
Builds relationships with social workers, and providers
Identifies the recruitment need and works with HR to hire more providers and expand the department
Overseeing the Onboarding of the new employee in the department
Coordinating with IT, ECW, credentialing and compliance
Maintaining weekly Key productivity indicators and presenting to leadership
Attending weekly meetings with CBHO and CEO
Performing Continuous quality improvement projects – to identify and improve potential areas
Marketing and promoting Behavioral Health services within and outside the Essen.
Supervising the department manager in daily operations activities.
Responsible for working with Chief Behavioral Health Officer to develop new policies and procedures to provide the best clinical performance
Establishing all staff complies with NY state and federal laws and documentation
Developing clinical staff and creating training programs to help facilitate ongoing clinical education
Involved in director supervision for social workers and providers and development of employee’s caseload
Following up with providers about supervision and working closely with medical staff professionals
Reviewing notes and developing plans to help navigate patients through clinical process for social workers
Using data to create and monitor systems
Working with Human Resources on recruitment and retention of employees
Will work closely with administration to figure out operational issues and how we can be most efficient in providing an overall growth plan by leading the behavioral department