Health Underwriting Director jobs in Seattle, WA

* This position includes .2 FTE clinical hours and travel to Neighborcare Health Clinics *

Purpose

The Director of Behavioral Health provides strategic and functional leadership for all behavioral health services at Neighborcare Health, including those within primary care, school-based and homeless/housing sites. The Director reports to the Chief Health Officer, is part of their leadership team, and partners with senior leaders and operational
leadership to set priorities, deploy resources and assure strategic goals are achieved. The Director is key to driving services, programs and partnerships toward reaching the intended outcomes and results in achieving Neighborcare’s Mission and its True North aspirations---100% access, zero health disparities.

Neighborcare Health offers a robust benefit package: Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, 18 days of Paid Time Off, 9-Paid Holidays, Retirement with Matching, Life & AD&D, Pet Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, & More! This position is eligible for the Staff Referral Program. 

In this position you will:

Key responsibilities:

• In partnership with operations, provides leadership, strategic direction and management necessary to provide clinical, operational and administrative oversight of Neighborcare Health’s behavioral health program and services.
•  Responsible for the delivery of quality behavioral health services through supervision, mentorship, coaching of Behavioral Health Supervisors and Managers so they can support their providers to achieve their greatest success.
• Develop infrastructure needed to fortify the foundation of and build/grow behavioral health services at Neighborcare.
• Work as a behavioral health clinician at .2FTE with the purpose of developing deep understanding of the varied Behavioral Health Services at Neighborcare Health.
• With the support of external expertise, Neighborcare Senior leadership, Operational leadership and behavioral health supervisors, collaboratively co-design a strategy to improve Neighborcare’s access for patients, patient outcomes, staff satisfaction, and patient satisfaction with services.
• Facilitate trust and teamwork, fostering superior communication skills and change management skills.
• Set the tone for positive patient service, patient and staff experience, and Neighborcare’s community reputation by meeting and leading to Neighborcare Health’s Service Commitments (a warm welcome; respect; caring; working together and trusting relationship).
• Work with the quality team to support quality improvement initiatives, including quality metrics that promote integration of behavioral health.
• Engage in community efforts that promote partnerships with clinics, managed care, and population health initiatives.
• Work alongside clinical leadership to support care team collaboration and managed patient registries

Key Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Required for this job:

• Knowledge of current industry trends and evidence based care in Medicaid and Medicare populations
• Awareness, knowledge and respect for the health and socioeconomic needs of low-income, underserved populations
• Awareness and knowledge and respect for the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion
• Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of the structural needs of an effectively functioning behavioral health program including ability to fiscally manage a program
• Ability to interact respectfully with all levels of personnel and people of varied backgrounds
• Ability to balance collaborative leadership and sound decision-making
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Ability to inspire and build trust and confidence in team members
• Ability to define and hold an ethical standard
• Demonstrated skills in planning, decision-making, setting goals and process improvement efforts
• Ability to navigate complexity and see commonalities amongst disparate lines of service
• Ability to use of electronic medical records
• Ability to meet and comply with HIPAA/Confidentiality policies and procedures
• Proficient with MS Office Suite and use of electronic means of communicating and connecting

Required Qualifications:

• Masters or other post-graduate degree required
• Minimum 3 years of clinical practice
• Minimum 1 year of program and/or personnel management experience
• Clinical supervision experience
• Active, unencumbered Washington License for practice

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Minimum of 3 years of clinical practice
• Minimum of 2 years of management experience with demonstrated capacity for leadership

Our Mission
The mission of Neighborcare Health is to provide comprehensive health care to families and individuals who have difficulty accessing care; respond with sensitivity to the needs of our culturally diverse patients; and advocate and work with others to improve the overall health status of the communities we serve.

About our Service Commitments
Our service commitments were created by staff members, leaders, board members and patients.  We use these as a guide and expectation for how we treat our patients and each other.  You may learn more about our service commitments here, https://neighborcare.org/about-us/service-commitments/

• Serving patients
• Serving each other
• A warm welcome
• Caring
• Respect
• Working together
• Trusting Relationship

About us
For 50 years, Neighborcare Health has been caring for our neighbors with essential medical and dental care, counseling, outreach, health education and more in Seattle, Vashon, and our newest dental clinic in Olympia!  Our purpose is to improve health by engaging, educating, and empowering people in the communities we serve.  We are looking to hire the best talent to support our culturally diverse workplace and community. 

Compensation 

The wage range for this position is minimum salary of $122,275.00 up to $178,611.92 maximum salary

Compensation will be determined based on years of relevant experience.  

Union: No 

Full job description will be provided during the interview process.  

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