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Vive Adolescent Care / Revive Hospital
St. George, Utah | Full-Time | On-Site

Vive Adolescent Care and Revive Hospital are seeking an experienced, confident, and highly adaptable Risk amp; Compliance Manager to help lead a strong culture of safety, accountability, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement across our behavioral health programs.

This is not a position for someone who simply checks boxes or maintains compliance binders. We are looking for someone who can understand the intent behind regulations, build practical processes around them, and confidently help teams apply those processes in a complex, fast-moving behavioral health environment.

Our ideal candidate is comfortable working where clinical care, hospital operations, licensing requirements, patient rights, employee practices, and organizational risk intersect. They can distinguish between an urgent compliance or safety issue and an opportunity for thoughtful process improvement—and respond appropriately to both.

Most importantly, this person must bring both confidence in process and flexibility in approach. Healthcare does not always fit neatly into a checklist. The right candidate knows when consistency is essential, when additional information is needed, and how to adapt operationally without compromising safety, regulatory requirements, or organizational standards.

The Risk amp; Compliance Manager will partner closely with executive leadership, clinical leadership, nursing, medical providers, HR, operations, and frontline teams to identify risk and strengthen systems throughout the organization.

Key responsibilities include:

• Oversee and strengthen the organization's risk management and compliance program.

• Monitor compliance with applicable federal and state regulations, hospital licensing requirements, behavioral health regulations, accreditation standards, and internal policies.

• Coordinate and support responses to regulatory surveys, licensing reviews, complaints, investigations, and requests for information.

• Maintain organized systems for regulatory documentation, corrective actions, plans of correction, and follow-up.

• Review critical incidents, grievances, patient rights concerns, safety events, and other identified areas of organizational risk.

• Help determine when an issue represents an isolated event versus a broader system or process concern.

• Facilitate root-cause analysis and performance improvement when appropriate.

• Identify gaps in policies, SOPs, training, documentation, or operational processes and help build practical solutions.

• Track risk and compliance trends and communicate meaningful findings to leadership.

• Conduct internal audits and follow identified concerns through resolution rather than simply reporting deficiencies.

• Assist departments in translating regulatory requirements into workflows that staff can realistically and consistently follow.

• Partner with leadership to develop and implement policies, procedures, training, and accountability systems.

• Maintain appropriate documentation related to compliance activities and organizational risk.

• Support HIPAA, confidentiality, patient rights, incident reporting, documentation, and other healthcare compliance functions.

• Work collaboratively with legal counsel and outside regulatory or compliance resources when appropriate.

• Help create a culture where compliance is viewed as part of excellent patient care—not simply an administrative requirement.

We are looking for someone who is experienced, steady, curious, organized, and confident.

The strongest candidate will demonstrate:

Confidence in Process
You are comfortable slowing down a complicated issue, gathering the right information, identifying the applicable standard, and creating a defensible path forward. You don't need to have every answer immediately, but you know how to find the answer and move the organization toward resolution.

Flexibility and Adaptability
Behavioral healthcare changes quickly. Priorities shift, unusual situations arise, and regulations do not always provide a step-by-step operational answer. You can adjust your approach without losing sight of the underlying standard or objective.

Sound Judgment
You understand that not every problem carries the same level of risk. You can appropriately escalate serious concerns while avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy around lower-risk issues.

Follow-Through
Identifying a problem is only the beginning. You enjoy building the solution, assigning ownership, tracking completion, evaluating effectiveness, and closing the loop.

Collaborative Leadership
You can confidently challenge a process while maintaining strong working relationships. You are comfortable working with executives, providers, nurses, therapists, frontline employees, regulators, and outside professionals.

Comfort With Complexity
You are able to organize competing requirements, multiple regulatory frameworks, operational realities, and clinical considerations without becoming overwhelmed by ambiguity.

• Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, nursing, behavioral health, compliance, risk management, quality, business, or a related field preferred.

• 3–5+ years of healthcare compliance, risk management, quality, regulatory, or hospital operations experience preferred.

• Experience in a psychiatric hospital, behavioral health facility, inpatient healthcare environment, or highly regulated healthcare setting strongly preferred.

• Working knowledge of healthcare regulatory requirements, patient rights, HIPAA, incident management, quality improvement, and risk management.

• Experience interacting with state licensing agencies, accreditation organizations, or regulatory surveyors is highly valued.

• Experience developing policies, SOPs, corrective action plans, audits, or performance improvement initiatives.

• Experience with Joint Commission or similar accreditation standards is preferred.

• Compliance or risk-management certification such as CHC, CPHRM, or similar credentials is valued but not required.

The right person for this role is comfortable saying:

“Let's determine exactly what the requirement is, understand the risk, and build a process that works.”

They are not intimidated by difficult conversations, regulatory questions, or competing opinions. At the same time, they don't approach compliance as an enforcement function operating separately from the rest of the organization.

They understand that the strongest compliance programs are built through clear expectations, practical processes, education, accountability, documentation, and strong relationships.

We value someone who can be firm without being rigid, confident without being defensive, and flexible without compromising standards.

Vive and Revive provide acute and continuing behavioral health services to adolescents experiencing significant mental health challenges. Our work requires an exceptional balance of compassion, clinical judgment, safety, structure, and innovation.

This position has the opportunity to do much more than maintain an existing compliance program. The Risk amp; Compliance Manager will have a meaningful role in building systems, improving processes, strengthening organizational infrastructure, and helping shape how risk and compliance function as Vive continues to grow.

We are looking for someone who wants to become an important part of the organization—not simply oversee it from the sidelines.