Vice President of Behavioral Programs

Behavioral Health Solutions - Henderson, NV, United States

About Us

Behavioral Health Solutions (BHS) is a leading provider of behavioral health services in post-acute and skilled nursing settings across multiple states. Our mission is to ensure individuals receive the mental healthcare they deserve through compassionate, coordinated, and high-quality care.

We’re looking for a Vice President of Behavioral Health Programs to join our growing leadership team. This role is ideal for a strong operational and clinical leader who thrives on building teams, driving performance, and developing partnerships that elevate patient care and provider success.

Position Summary

The Vice President of Behavioral Health Programs provides enterprise-level leadership, strategic oversight, and operational accountability for all state-supported and enterprise behavioral health programs across the organization’s national footprint. This role is responsible for program implementation, execution, scalability, financial performance, compliance, and outcomes, ensuring programs are delivered consistently, efficiently, and at the highest standard of clinical and operational excellence.

This role serves as the senior owner of behavioral health program strategy, translating organizational goals into executable models across states and facilities. The VP leads multi-state leadership teams, owns all program training initiatives, and ensures the organization is equipped with the people, processes, tools, and infrastructure required to sustain growth.

The ideal candidate is a systems-level thinker and hands-on leader—capable of driving enterprise strategy while remaining deeply connected to execution in the field. This role partners closely with executive leadership, clinical leaders, operations, finance, and HR to ensure behavioral programs are scalable, compliant, and financially viable while delivering meaningful patient outcomes.

Location: Multi-site / Travel Required;
Based out of AZ, NV, WA or CO
Travel: Regular travel required
Employment Type: Full-time, W2 Salaried

• Oversee the enterprise strategy, structure, and performance of all behavioral health programs across states and markets.
• Define and continuously refine program models, tiering structures, workflows, and success metrics to ensure consistency, scalability, and sustainability.
• Translate organizational and clinical strategy into clear, executable expectations at the state, regional, and facility levels.
• Serve as the operational sponsor for behavioral health program expansion across new and existing states and facilities.
• Provide direct leadership and supervision of state and regional program leaders, with full accountability for hiring, onboarding, performance management, corrective action, and termination, in partnership with HR.
• Establish leadership expectations, accountability frameworks, and succession planning; coach and develop leaders to strengthen execution, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Build and sustain a high-performing, accountable leadership culture across all program teams.
• Own the enterprise training strategy for behavioral health programs, including onboarding, readiness training, ongoing education, standardized materials, playbooks, workflows, quality assurance, and continuous enhancements.
• Ensure training programs are scalable, role-appropriate, measurable, and aligned with program expectations, clinical quality, compliance, and outcomes.
• Continuously evaluate training effectiveness and adjust based on performance trends, feedback, and program results.
• Ensure consistent execution of behavioral health programs across all facilities, balancing standardization with state-specific requirements.
• Conduct routine reviews of census, tier performance, staffing alignment, and operational health to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex or high-impact program issues, leading rapid resolution and sustainable solutions.
• Oversee program audits, readiness assessments, and performance validations (virtual and on-site).
• Own program performance metrics, reporting integrity, and…