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Outpatient Behavioral Health Manager

Falls Church, VA

Position Type: Full-Time

Salary Scale: $99,070.40-$148,616

Make a Difference in the Mental Health!

Dominion Hospital, the only freestanding mental health facility in Northern VA, is seeking an experienced Outpatient Behavioral Health Manager to help lead and support our outpatient programs. In this key role, you will be responsible for the clinical and administrative functioning of the Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program. The Outpatient Behavioral Health Manager functions as an integral part of the interdisciplinary treatment team and works in cooperation with the Program Director for Adolescent Services to ensure overall quality and standards of patient care. The Outpatient Behavioral Health Manager will perform additional duties including program functioning, coordination, monitoring, & ensuring quality of care and compliance with regulating entities.

If you're passionate about leadership in behavioral health, we'd love to hear from you.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us:

• Competitive pay

• Paperless, quick onboarding 

• Warm, family-like culture, supportive leadership

• Recognition programs & employee appreciation events

• Comprehensive benefits (health, dental, vision, retirement plan, PTO, holiday pay)

• Generous employee referral program

• Annual performance reviews

• Support for personal well-being (EAP programs, mental health resources)

• Opportunities for advancement

• Strong mentorship and orientation programs

• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patient and employee safety

What You'll Do

• Ensures effective crisis intervention as needed according to policy and CPI criteria

• Ensures creation and maintenance of ongoing individualized treatment planning with criteria met as outlined by policy.

• Demonstrates understanding diagnosis provides treatment appropriate to the specific diagnosis.

• Implements evidence-based practices into care

• Plans and utilizes a collaborative interdepartmental approach in managing patient care.

• Collaborates with physicians to ensure care coordination with the entire treatment team.

• Oversees the quality of interventions provided to the patient, family/significant other.

• Evaluates the quality of the groups and documentation of the therapist.

• Oversees the case management responsibilities of the program and ensures the necessary referral sources, physicians, patients, and others are aware of discharge planning.

• Ensures compliance of all safety, infection, and quality improvement policies.

• Assures all treatment measures comply with HBIPS, Joint Commission, and CMS standards

• Ensures completion of medical records in accordance with policies and procedures within established guidelines by all staff in the program.

• Maintains confidentiality of information of patients by adhering to State and HIPAA guidelines. Assures signed consents are completed before communicating with others.

• Demonstrates awareness and respect to the patient, family, and or significant other.

• Treats all patients with dignity, considering cultural, ethnic, religious, physical, sexual, and psychological needs. Advocates for patients’ rights. Reports abuse as identified.

• Manages program according to budgetary guidelines, including productivity, expense control, and supply management.

• Ensures appropriate interaction, role modeling, and boundaries of staff between each other, patients, families, and referral sources.

• Participates in building and mentoring the census

• Assists in developing and implementing the marketing plan of the Program

• Develops and maintains sound relationships with community agencies, private practitioners, and other community-based groups to provide coordination of treatment services to patients and to enhance referral development potential

• Works with the Program Director to address all employee issues

• Serves as a role model for the clinical staff in programming and documentation

• Provides an environment where employees can share ideas that can improve the quality of care and overall patient satisfaction.

• Provides the environment for the physicians to work effectively with the patients and staff.

• Attends all hospital meetings as required.

• Assists in developing continuing education opportunities for clinical staff and maintaining required records

• Completes all employee evaluations on time.

• Ensure staff meet all annual educational training and position competencies

• Serves as a clinical role model in observation skills, assessment of behavior, and ways to interact therapeutically through active participation in the various therapies

• Practices and adheres to the “Code of Conduct” and “Mission and Value Statement.”

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education: Master’s of Science in, Social Work, Psychology or other related field required.

Licensure: Current LCSW, LPC in the in the state of employment or a multi-state compact license, as applicable.

Certifications: Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers required and Crisis Prevention Institute required as a part of the general hospital orientation.

Experience: Clinical Experience: Three (3) plus years of clinical experience specifically in a behavioral health environment.

Management Experience: Three (3) plus years of management in a clinical setting 

Salary/ Wage Range

Compensation for the role will depend on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience and may fall outside of the range shown.

We are committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, disability or protected veteran status. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for our job opportunities.

Dominion Hospital has provided quality healthcare services for close to 50 years! Our 116-bed hospital is one of the region's leading mental healthcare facilities in Northern Virginia. Our convenient location in suburban Falls Church, VA offers a full range of treatment options with a distinctive focus on crisis intervention and stabilization through our inpatient, partial hospitalization programs (PHP), and intensive outpatient (IOP). Our patients receive the best quality care through specialized services in safe, healthy, confidential, and trauma-informed environments.

At Dominion Hospital, our care-like family culture extends to our patients, our people, and our community. We are committed to each other. When we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.

Join our team and help create a safer environment for patients, visitors, and employees while advancing excellence in healthcare. Apply today!