VP BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

Position Summary

Responsible for planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, evaluating and providing leadership and day-to-day administration of all operations for several outpatient behavioral clinics as well as consultative leadership for an acute psychiatric care facility, ensuring compliance with established objectives and the realization of quality, economical health care services.

Maintains financial integrity and control for areas of responsibility, including the development of and adherence to an annual budget for Peninsula Hospital and all Outpatient entities.

Makes changes in structure, organizational design, methods of operation necessary for effectiveness, growth and profitability.

Appraises and evaluates the results of overall operations regularly and systematically and periodically reports these results to the President & CAO.

Accountabilities

• Ensures adequate resources are available to implement strategies/decisions through efficient and effective process design and staff training;
• Strengthens physician, staff, and customer relations;
• Mets targets for fiscal, quality, and customer service performance indicators.

Qualifications

• Above average aptitude in the following areas: planning, organizing, directing, implementing, results orientation, emotional stability, objectivity to facilitate staff development and program growth, team building, dependability, creativity, flexibility, problem-solving skill, administrative skills, facility management, and good organization, interpersonal skills and communication.
• Knowledge of clinical/behavioral quality/effectiveness, licensing, regulatory compliance, and operational standards applicable to the healthcare industry.
• Knowledge of principles of business administration including methods/techniques used in program management and development, strategic planning, organization, financial, performance improvements and human resources reporting.
• Ability to manage multiple service lines within the organization, and has the ability to manage both capital and operational budgets.
• Ability to analyze and integrate information from a variety of sources, both internal and external, to detect trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships; displays a keen sense of priority, relevance, and significance in creating viable options for addressing problems and opportunities and achieving desired outcomes.
• Skilful at using necessary and appropriate influencing, negotiation, and conflict-resolution techniques to gain support for actions from others.
• Capable of presenting ideas effectively orally and in written form to a diverse audience.
• Applies appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to influence, inspire, motivate, and guide individuals toward goal achievement.
• Ability to attract, develop, and retain talent to ensure that people with the right skills and motivations to meet business needs are in the right place at the right time; builds and facilitates a culture that embraces employee development.
• Influential; able to generate enthusiasm and conviction among others toward common goals and can move people from an attitude of compliance to commitment.
• Possesses high moral character and consistently demonstrates sound ethical behavior in all personal and professional interactions; holds others accountable to the organization’s moral and professional principles in all decisions, actions, and stakeholder interactions.
• Operates within a matrix organizational structure requiring close collaboration, cooperation and effective working relationships with peer group and administration, senior leadership, and facility management; leaders of the various corporate support functions such as finance, human resources, marketing, physician services, planning, clinical effectiveness, risk management, medical staff services, HIM, etc; physicians and physician leaders both at the facility and corporate levels; and with various other external and internal stakeholders.
• Direct executive leadership responsibility for all Peninsula Outpatient clinical operations and Peninsula physicians; joint leadership responsibility for Peninsula Outpatient office management, Peninsula Inpatient Hospital and Parkwest Senior Behavioral Health.
• Directs operations through two or more subordinate supervisory levels with several subdivisions at each level.

Education and Experience

• Master’s Degree in Business or related healthcare field required.
• An equivalent combination of post-secondary education and directly-related professional-level work experience may be accepted in lieu of the indicated Master’s Degree requirement.
• Seven to ten (7-10) years of increasingly responsible professional-level experience in behavioral health which included responsibility for some combination of operations, public relations, public affairs, marketing, physician relations/recruitment, or directly-related administrative areas.