Director of School Behavioral Health - #260872

Job Information

Title : Director of School Behavioral Health

Department : Behavioral Health

Status: Salaried

Position Classification/Category : Clinical

Location: Varied locations

Reports To: AVP of Behavioral Health

Summary Of Position

The Director of School Behavioral Health oversees the School Based Behavioral Health program for Kintegra Health, reports to the AVP of Behavioral Health and is responsible for management of program implementation, process improvement, expansion, and sustainability. This role serves as a contact point for Senior Management, other Kintegra Health services, and community partners. The Director of School Behavioral Health will work alongside the AVP of Behavioral Health and Chief Behavioral Health Officer to support and manage the school based behavioral health program, focused on strategic performance plans to achieve identified organizational objectives. In addition to managerial duties the program manager will continue to engage in direct student care working as part of a multidisciplinary school care treatment team to facilitate the provision of holistic, whole-person behavioral healthcare for all Kintegra Health (Kintegra Health) patients/students. Provides behavioral health and substance abuse screening, brief intervention, education, and referral services for patients within a school based setting. Provides ongoing consultation and treatment planning support for school administrators, social workers, and teaching personnel to meet the needs of individual clients and school programs. Will work with patients with psychosocial, behavioral health, chronic disease, behavior change, and/or substance use concerns. Is knowledgeable of and adheres to all policies, professional practice standards, philosophies and requirements for professional clinical practice.

Performance Requirements

• Excellent and effective written and oral communication skills. Interacts in a friendly, professional manner with a wide range of patients, operations staff, physicians, other departments, and community partners in a friendly, professional manner.
• Knowledge of psychosocial experiences of students, particularly focused on trauma informed treatment modalities, and various forms of treatment.
• Ability to lead and manage a multidisciplinary team, all school based provider to be direct report
• Ability to plan, prioritize and complete delegated task with attention to detail and efficient time management.
• Ability to work well under pressure and various time constraints.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint use and email communication.
  
  

Education :Masters degree in Social Work or related field.

Experience Required : Minimum of 2 year experience working within a school based behavioral health model of care, Minimum of 2 years development and implementation of school behavioral health programs, Minimum of 2 years supporting student population.

Professional Licensure: LCSW, LCHMC, LMFT

Certification(s) : CPR

K ey Responsibilities

• Provide programmatic oversight to include direct supervision of School based behavioral health team staff. Demonstrate and apply knowledge of school behavioral health program guidelines/procedures to identify issues.
• Monitor programmatic expenditures to ensure contractual compliance.
• Update/maintain accurate and secure patient medical records. Ensure other school behaviorist team members are documenting appropriately. Completes, in a timely manner, all required documentation related to patient treatment, payment for services rendered, and organizational operations.
• Update/ maintain accurate timeclock, PTO/CME completion, working directly with HR to support all employee needs related to work hours and responsibilities.
• Complete all annual evaluations, in a timely manner, on direct reports, working with school staff and Director of Behavioral Health.
• Identify and solve any process, personnel, or clinical challenges.
• Regularly update Director of Behavioral Health with changes and/or challenges to school behavioral health services.
• Manage own panel of students to maintain knowledge of direct practice functionality.
• Coordinate/facilitate referral processes and community partnerships.
• Ensure the preparation, completion and submission of required reports.
• Evaluate School BH program activities to improve quality of care and program efficiencies.
• Actively participates in QI activities, managing School BH program QI data and monitoring progress toward goals.
• Participates in staff meetings as required
• Will remain active in clinical role providing evidence based assessment, intervention, consultation, and referral services for students with a variety of behavioral and chronic health conditions. Working cooperatively as an integral part of the student services, school team with the goal of improving patient care and increasing team efficiency.
• Engages in continuing education to maintain licensure and enhance professional competence relevant to medical, substance use and legal issues that impact patient care.
• And other duties as assigned
  
  

Kintegra Health Core Requirements

• Patient First – An approach to care that holds primary, the well-being and desires of the patient
• Build not Blame – Focusing first on finding fault with the process rather than the person
• Integrity and Honesty – Fostering an acceptance of openness, honesty, and fairness in words, deeds and the use of organizational resources judiciously for both internal and external customers
• Cooperation and Flexibility – Related to an internal believe that we function as part of an interdependent team with only shared gains or losses thereby committed to assisting whenever possible beyond the prerequisite job description
• Culturally Sensitive – Always working toward increasing one’s ability to understand, communicate with, effectively interact and care for people across cultures, while having an acute awareness of one’s own culture.
  
  

Kintegra Health is a community sponsored, family-centered provider of health care, health education and preventive care services without regard to the ability to pay. We screen potential employees to first ensure alignment with our core requirements followed by the requisite position skills set. In doing so we need staff committed to this mission who do their best to live and work the characteristics of our core values as we strive to care for ever increasing members of the communities we serve.

Our Goals Are

• To provide continuing comprehensive and accessible primary care services to individuals and families of all economic levels within our surrounding counties.
• To provide primary care services to meet the physical as well as social health needs of individuals and families, promoting health maintenance, providing timely diagnostics, treatment and referral services.
• To emphasize preventive care through patient and community education to help individuals become aware and responsible for their own health behaviors.
• To employ an interdisciplinary team approach in collaboration with other community providers to provide a continuum of appropriate patient/family-oriented care in a cost-effective manner