Behavioral Health Lead

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEAD

Nonclassified Position # NONCEX
4007

Annual Salary: up to $124,000

Location:

New Hampshire (In-person; statewide travel required)

GO-NORTH is hiring a Behavioral Health Lead to drive New Hampshire’s behavioral health priorities within the Rural Health Transformation Plan (RHTP) – turning strategy into day‑to‑day execution across partners statewide. You’ll lead work spanning CCBHC expansion, SUD and crisis services, behavioral health prevention and early intervention, EMR/data infrastructure, and behavioral health workforce development, in close collaboration with other GO‑NORTH initiative leads, DHHS‑Division of Behavioral Health and Medicaid, and Community Mental Health Centers.

The ideal candidate will bring deep behavioral health and community mental health experience (New Hampshire experience preferred), strong partnership instincts, and a systems‑thinking approach to building a more integrated, sustainable, and measurable behavioral health system across New Hampshire.

Preferred: clinical behavioral health background and/or leadership/executive experience within a Community Mental Health Center.

• Lead CCBHC expansion and behavioral health integration
• Serve as GO‑NORTH’s lead to expand CCBHC adoption statewide through the community mental health system
• Partner with CMHCs, DHHS, and Medicaid to advance implementation, payment approaches, readiness planning, and performance measures
• Improve behavioral health care transitions across the continuum (crisis, ED, inpatient, step‑down, housing, community‑based care), including support for crisis response and transitional housing models and financing
• Serve as the GO‑NORTH lead for programmatic compliance of the RHTP behavioral health initiative in accordance with CMS Rural Health Transformation program requirements and other applicable law
• Strengthen CMHC EMR, health IT, and data infrastructure
• Support CMHC implementation of a common EHR/technology approach, in coordination with the GO‑NORTH technology lead
• Establish and promote standard metrics, dashboards, and reporting to support CCBHC readiness, access, population health management, and evaluation
• Build rural behavioral health workforce capacity
• Lead a rural behavioral health workforce strategy, in collaboration with the GO‑NORTH workforce lead and education partners
• Support recruitment, training, and retention of clinicians, peers, prevention specialists, and allied staff
• Advance behavioral health prevention and early intervention strategies
• Lead development of a statewide, lifespan prevention strategy
• Coordinate with CMHCs, schools, and community partners to scale evidence‑based prevention and early intervention programs
• Strengthen SUD and crisis services
• Improve the integration of SUD services and team‑based care
• Lead improvements in the development of a behavioral health crisis continuum with CMHCs, Doorways, and recovery organizations to support access to appropriate crisis care at the appropriate time
• Integrate overdose prevention and suicide prevention into broader behavioral health and population health strategies
• Collaborate, govern, and deliver results
• Embed behavioral health into related RHTP initiatives (primary care, hospitals, EMS/MIH, population health)
• Build regional partnerships and maintain strong relationships with agencies, providers, community partners, and people with lived experience
• Align RHTP behavioral health work with DHHS Behavioral Health programming and requirements
• Track outcomes, adjust implementation as needed, and support grant resource allocation with GO‑NORTH leadership
• Provide virtual/on‑site technical assistance to advance best practices, evidence‑based care, and quality improvement
• Represent GO‑NORTH at behavioral health RHTP meetings and stakeholder convenings, as directed
• Other duties as assigned by the Director of Financial Sustainability and Policy

Each additional year of approved formal education may be substituted for one year of required work experience and/or each additional year of approved work experience may be substituted for one year of required formal education.

The Director of Financial…