Regional Director - Outpatient Clinics for Psychiatric & Substance Abuse Services

UHS • Lawrenceville, GA

28d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Regional Director – Outpatient Services provides the leadership and strategic planning for all outpatient facilities in the Atlanta and Georgia Markets, ensuring the delivery of clinical programs that meet the needs of the facilities, community and each facility’s performance goals and objectives. The Regional Director will work closely with all the Clinical Program Directors of each outpatient facility. Responsibilities include the overall administrative processes of budgetary control and management systems for all services offered at all facilities. This position will also coordinate with the Regional Business Development Market Director to promote program growth and referral source customer service. This position contributes to the facility’s strategic planning objectives, educational and quality improvement efforts while providing guidance to directors at each outpatient facility.
This work location for this position will adopt a hybrid model; a combination of remote and onsite/on campus work will be required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree – Business, Healthcare Administration or related field.
• 8 – 10 years’ experience in business healthcare management required.
• Strong advanced knowledge of regulatory and accreditation agencies’ regulations
• Demonstrated superior leadership abilities and excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Knowledge of patient rights standards
• Strategic planning skills; record of adherence to deadlines.
• Knowledge of all applicable regulatory and state laws regulating mental health care facilities
• Ability to travel between multiple facilities.
• Advanced knowledge of P&L interpretation/management and how to develop and implement actions to ensure program profitability.
• Ability to increase revenues and income before inter-company allocations, maintain or decrease the effective bad debt rate, achieve the margin percentage, and implement operating cost controls in the areas of staffing, supplies, and purchased services.
• Working knowledge of HR policy and procedures along with experience in staff management, recruitment, and retention across multiple sites.
• Strong knowledge of budget development and yearly strategic planning.
• Accountable for creating an environment and culture that focuses on fulfilling the organizations mission, vision and values.
• Operational leadership of clinical and non-clinical departments including but not limited to: Admissions, Business Development, Process Improvement, Finance, Clinical Services, Regulatory Affairs that effectively drive patient care outcomes
• Ensure hospital quality metrics are achieved through sound clinical processes following accreditation and regulatory agency guidelines.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree – Business, Healthcare Administration or related field highly preferred.
• Leadership experience in psychiatric or behavioral health field preferred.
• Prefer knowledge of the Metro-Atlanta and outlying areas behavioral health marketplace, insurance plans, target markets and referral sources.
• Prefer knowledge of psychiatric and chemical dependency treatment principles and age-specific programming and practices.
• Experience in multiple site operations and leadership preferred.
• Recruit physicians and staff in targeted specialty areas, coordinate medical staff participation in new hospital ventures and targets, develop new areas of medical care to offer at the hospital.
• Oversight of marketing development efforts and program growth.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and strategic planning for all outpatient facilities in the Atlanta and Georgia Markets
• Ensure the delivery of clinical programs that meet the needs of the facilities, community and each facility’s performance goals and objectives
• Work closely with all the Clinical Program Directors of each outpatient facility
• Overall administrative processes of budgetary control and management systems for all services offered at all facilities
• Coordinate with the Regional Business Development Market Director to promote program growth and referral source customer service
• Contribute to the facility’s strategic planning objectives, educational and quality improvement efforts while providing guidance to directors at each outpatient facility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager