Medical Director Physician

Job Description At Life Stance Health, we strive to help individuals, families, and communities with their mental health needs. Everywhere. Every day. It's a lofty goal; we know. But we make it happen with the best team in mental healthcare.

Thank you for taking the time to explore a career with us. As the fastest growing mental health practice group in the country, now is the perfect time to join our team!

Life Stance Health Values

• Belonging:
  We cultivate a space where everyone can show up as their authentic self.
• Empathy:
  We seek out diverse perspectives and listen to learn without judgment.
• Courage:
  We are all accountable for doing the right thing - even when it's hard - because we know it's worth it.
• One Team:
  We realize our full potential when we work together towards our shared purpose.

Benefits
As a full-time employee of Life Stance Health, the following benefits are offered: medical, dental, vision, AD&D, short and long-term disability, and life insurance. Additional benefits include a 401k retirement savings with employer match, paid parental leave, paid time off, holiday pay and an Employee Assistance Program.

Job Summary:

The Clinical Director will provide oversight and support for psychotherapy clinicians, engaging through coaching and education of new and tenured clinicians and enhancing ongoing clinician professional growth and development. The Clinical Director will work in a dyad partnership with the Practice Group Manager to enhance, plan for, and implement clinical strategy and related operations, including recruitment, interviewing and hiring. The Clinical Director ensures clinical integrity and compliance through local monitoring and risk management.

Compensation: $90,/annually, plus annual bonus potential

Duties/Responsibilities:

Clinician Education & Engagement:

• Partners with Practice Group Manager and other team leaders to support new clinicians through provision of clinically focused regional onboarding training, promoting caseload ramp, and engaging in new employee orientation.

• Provides, ensures and advocates for the training, education and supervision of clinical staff based upon regional needs to uphold clinical best practices, updated policies and regulations and coding quality assurance.

• Facilitates training, coaching and education as part of strengthening best practices and fostering professional growth.

• Enables regular peer consultation forums for clinicians to review patient cases and to solicit input and support from colleagues.

• Meets regularly with strong performers to solicit feedback, mentor, engage, and encourage continued professional development (e.g., educate on career progression paths, offer informational interviews)

• Leads efforts to foster a positive culture to continually engage and empower clinicians in partnership with the rest of the state leadership team.

Clinical Strategy & Operations:

• Provides clinical support and oversight of psychotherapy clinicians.

• Reports Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) regularly to regional leadership in accordance with the company's strategies and processes.

• Evaluates quality metrics to best address and identify center-level trends and creates associated clinician-focused strategic solutions to enhance behavioral health service delivery.

• Provides onsite clinical consultation, expertise and support regarding clinical concerns.

• Demonstrates knowledge of state-specific supervisory protocol requirements.

• Implements national clinical policies and any state specific addendums through regional procedures and workflows.

• Partners with operations leaders regarding personnel actions.

• Collaborates with operations leaders to enhance clinician professional growth development.

• Communicates regularly with members of the operations team to flag issues related to clinician satisfaction and retention.

• In collaboration with other team leaders, assesses and projects staffing needs to address performance challenges and clinical trend related KPIs.

• Monitors state and center-level clinic data.

Clinician Interviewing & Hiring:

• Partners with clinical recruiting and operations to support clinician recruitment and hiring strategy.

• Facilitates clinician interviews and utilizes associated clinical competence assessment to guide hiring decisions.

Clinical Integrity &

Risk Management:

• Supports, investigates and responds to clinical integrity concerns to mitigate risks and liabilities related to care delivery (e.g., critical incidents, board complaints, patient complaints, quality of care concerns).

• Engages members of operational leadership when managing complaints relating to standard of care or other clinically related concerns.

• Consults and supports the clinical integrity and regulatory compliance process through proper escalation and reporting of actionable compliance items.

• Ensures adherence to all HIPAA, confidentiality and clinical safety standards in accordance with state and federal regulations.

• Evaluates national policy initiatives against state and local regulations, community practice…