Senior Behavioral Health Manager

Rate of Pay: $88,000 per year/ $1,000 stipend for training annually 

Shift: Monday-Friday

Eligible Benefits

• 11 Paid Holidays
• 5 Additional Paid Days: 3 Self-Care, 1 Birthday, 1 Personal Holiday
• Generous PTO policy and Sabbatical
• Employer Paid Medical, Life Insurance, Short Term Disability and Employee Assistance Program
• Voluntary Dental, Vision, FSA, Long Term Disability, Critical Illness, Accident Coverage, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance
• 5% Retirement Match with no waiting period 
• Annual bonus program
• Annual professional development allotment
• Mileage reimbursement at federal rate for work related travel
• Inclusive workplace culture
• Bilingual wage differential 

Job Summary  

This full-time Senior Behavior Health Manager provides behavioral health-related leadership by acting as the clinical and local leader, with comprehensive knowledge of Bridges to Change programs in the area. This position provides leadership and oversight for mental health, comorbid substance use disorder, and integrated care services at Bridges to Change. The Senior Behavior Health Manager is responsible for provision of clinical supervision to licensing, licensed, intern, and other mental health clinicians who provide services to individuals engaged in behavioral health care, as well as supporting clinically relevant care in non-clinical BTC programming. Acting as the licensed clinical leader overseeing county-wide service provision, the Senior Behavior Health Manager will monitor the efficacy of care for all participants in BTC programming and ensure that BTC behavioral health services are accessible, comprehensive, and tailored to the needs of BTC service populations. The Senior Behavior Health Manager role works effectively with other matrixed leaders in supporting the integration of care across Bridges to Change services, including supporting peer, administrative, and housing staff. The Senior Behavior Health Manager is responsible for supporting clinicians and graduate level interns in providing culturally responsive and affirming services that can effectively engage the population and sub-populations served by the organization and create improved success rates for individuals and timely billing of services. Additionally, the Senior Behavior Health Manager role identifies, develops, and implements effective training deemed necessary to lead high-quality care for the populations served by Bridges to Change.  

The Senior Behavior Health Manager role reports to the Clinical Director, and collaborates with lateral Senior Behavior Health Manager roles to ensure consistency and efficacy of integrated care at BTC. Additionally, the Senior Behavior Health Manager role monitors and evaluates BTC service outcomes and initiates strategies to remediate gaps in services in order to improve care outcomes.  

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Acts as the county and/or local leader designated to support and make behavioral health decisions related to programming and service delivery 

• Promotes, leads, and supports efforts to enhance positive BTC culture, including staff recognition, professional development pathways, team building opportunities, and implementing initiatives that support employee satisfaction 

• Provides leadership oversight and management of licensing, licensed, intern, and other mental health clinicians personnel 

• Leads quality assurance initiatives for department, including auditing, training, best-practice, and implementation of Oregon Administrative Rules 

• Provides clinical supervision to licensing, licensed, intern, and other mental health clinicians and evaluates individual progress 

• Creates and enforces processes that result in high individual participation in data monitoring and high efficacy care by clinicians and associated behavioral health providers. Abides by policies and procedures and all relevant state and federal treatment regulations and standards 

• Monitors, attends, and participates in multidisciplinary meetings, individual supervision, group supervision, all-staff meetings, leadership meetings, and other meetings, as needed 

• Recruits, hires, and onboards of licen