Director Behavior Health

Overview

Work Status Details: REGULAR FULL TIME | 80.00 Hours Every Two Weeks.

Shift: Days. Pay Rate Type:
Annual Salary.

Location:

Behavioral Health.

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Summary:

The Director of Behavioral Health is accountable for the planning, implementation and operation of the department in order to meet the needs of the organization;
Provides leadership and expertise in the management of the department and has accountability for human resource management, financial management, and quality management for department and programs within incumbent's responsibility in support of the mission, vision and strategic objectives of YRMC .

Planning/Vision
Competency: a) Provides vision
, forward thinking and strategic planning in a proactive manner while being open-minded and creative in establishing a strategic direction. b) Develops through an integration of ideas of those involved, an organized strategy to achieve both short and long term objectives for the department. Effectively communicates strategy to obtain commitment by the responsible individuals.
Accountability: Leads the strategic planning process for the respective department. As plans are developed, these plans and objectives are integrated within the plans of the medical center. The incumbent works with others in leadership as well as physicians to identify and evaluate programs and emerging technologies.

Fiscal Management
Competency: a) Demonstrates a personal accountability for financial results through development of an annual budget and operational plan and management of performance based on plan. b)
Engages staff in efforts to contain costs and improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of services. Understands the basics of health care financial management.
Accountability: Establishes budget targets for department, provides oversight for the process, and holds self and other individuals accountable for compliance with annual budget plan. Identifies program or service growth opportunities and methodologies to enhance revenues. Able to manage to a volume adjusted budget.

Customer Service
Competency: a) Exhibits unyielding commitment to providing excellent service to patients, physicians, employees and other customers. b) Demonstrates strong communication skills through effective exchange of information with others, including written and oral communication, active listening, influencing the behavior of others and building personal rapport. c) Communicates with others in an open and friendly manner, while simultaneously building credibility and rapport
. d) Exhibits strong interactive skills through a demonstration of respecting others' feelings, ideas and opinions; fosters an open interchange, displays a genuine understanding and acceptance of others. Demonstrates perceptivity regarding others' feelings, ideas and opinions.
Accountability: Responsible for assuring a respectful work environment. Promotes Patient & Family Centered Care. Sets the tone in the department by communicating values and attitudes that will significantly shape the culture of the group. Models appropriate behaviors and values; sets expectations for respectful behavior with all employees. Supports collaboration between patients, families, health care practitioners, and health care leaders in policy and program development, implementation, and evaluation;

in facility design; professional education, and delivery of care.

Operational Management / Quality in Everything We Do
Competency: a) Exhibits a commitment to operational management and completing tasks through personal initiative, persistence. Demonstrates an ability to plan, organize, coordinate, prioritize, balance workload and follow through to achieve institutional and individual goals and objectives. b) Demonstrates use of good judgments and sound decision making (common sense, intuition, data collection, analytical skills, impact evaluation, communications) to systematically address problems, define alternate solutions, negotiate and facilitate implementation of solutions.

c) Able to balance need for consensus and involvement with need for decisiveness and action. Provides consistent and open encouragement to trying new and creative approaches, yet willing to make a decision and take a stand. Contributes new ideas and new ways of thinking to improve departmental performance and services. Identifies need for change and develops/accepts creative approaches and solutions.

Participates in performance improvement activities, and by challenging processes, eliminates inefficient/ineffective procedures and waste by collaborating with co-workers or across departments to improve processes. Implements an effective and on-going program to monitor,…