Regional Behavioral Health Director

Great outcomes start with great people and Armor has an exciting opportunity for a Regional Behavioral Health Director to lead our clinical team in South Carolina and surrounding areas.

Armor Health focuses on offering comprehensive and robust Total Rewards package. Our offering contains education and development opportunities, competitive salaries, and an extensive benefit package. Some of our programs include:

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Employer Paid Disability and Life coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition Reimbursement

• Provides leadership, direction, and consultation for behavioral health services across the assigned region, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, contractual obligations, accreditation standards, regulatory requirements, and evidence-based correctional healthcare practices.
• Manages, monitors, and assesses all assigned behavioral health programs to ensure adherence to federal, state, and correctional health care standards, as well as institutional regulations and guidelines, in the provision of health care services.
• The Regional Behavioral Health Director is primarily an administrative, operational, and clinical leadership position and does not maintain a routine patient caseload. Direct clinical services may be provided on an exception basis during emergencies, staffing shortages, activation periods, crisis situations, or other extraordinary operational circumstances, and only within jurisdictions where the Director maintains the appropriate licensure and scope of practice.
• Trains and monitors site-based behavioral health staff to deliver best-in-class behavioral health services so that program outcomes meet or exceed accepted industry and accreditation standards.
• Develops leadership capacity among site-based behavioral health leaders through mentoring, coaching, professional development, competency assessment, and succession planning initiatives. Identifies high-potential employees and supports leadership development strategies that promote workforce stability, engagement, retention, and long-term organizational success.
• Regularly monitors and reports on population health management, operational risk, workforce impact analysis, and behavioral health outcomes across all sites.
• Supervises on-site program directors/supervisors. Provides overall program direction, ensuring compliance with various state licensure and national accreditation standards.
• Ensures continuous readiness for accreditation surveys, audits, and regulatory inspections conducted by organizations, including NCCHC, ACA, The Joint Commission, state licensing authorities, and other governing bodies. Leads corrective action planning, performance improvement initiatives, mock audits, and compliance monitoring activities to support sustained accreditation and regulatory compliance across all assigned facilities.
• Embodies Armor’s core values of embracing change, taking ownership, engaging in deep collaboration, and delivering holistic, results-oriented healthcare with a sense of urgency and attention to detail
• Collaborates with Operations and the CQI teams in the monitoring of the Behavioral Health Quality Improvement and Risk Management Programs to ensure improved patient outcomes.
• Utilizes data analytics, benchmarking, trend analysis, and predictive indicators to identify clinical, operational, workforce, and compliance risks. Develops actionable recommendations and collaborates with organizational leadership to implement targeted interventions that improve patient outcomes, operational performance, staff effectiveness, and contract success.
• Communicate the circumstances of high-risk or potentially high-risk events to the CBHO…