Compliance Director

At LifeStance Health, we strive to help individuals, families, and communities with their mental health needs. Everywhere. Every day. It’s a lofty goal; we know. But we make it happen with the best team in mental healthcare.

Thank you for taking the time to explore a career with us. As the fastest growing mental health practice group in the country, now is the perfect time to join our team!

LifeStance Health Values

• Belonging: We cultivate a space where everyone can show up as their authentic self.

• Empathy: We seek out diverse perspectives and listen to learn without judgment.

• Courage: We are all accountable for doing the right thing - even when it's hard - because we know it's worth it.

• One Team: We realize our full potential when we work together towards our shared purpose.

ROLE OVERVIEW
 

The Compliance Director will serve the dual role of providing legal counsel to the compliance team and their efforts and supervising others on the team. This role will independently address compliance inquiries, managing internal investigations, drafting responses to agency requests, leading individual compliance projects while ensuring compliance, and detect wrongdoing at all levels.  Duties also include but are not limited to; undertaking and performing compliance auditing and monitoring program for the company, investigation of compliance matters; fostering a culture of compliance, encouraging reporting of any issues or violations of policy; overseeing timely resolution of relevant issues; auditing and reporting; and serving as the contact for internal and external inquiries from various organizations including government agencies. Analyze issues and identify opportunities for the organization.
 

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Compliance Director to lead and manage pieces of our organization's compliance, privacy, and risk management functions. This role requires a deep understanding of healthcare regulations, privacy laws, and risk management practices. The successful candidate will serve as a strategic advisor, ensuring adherence to federal, state, and local laws, fostering a culture of compliance, and contributing to institutional policy development and decision-making.

Exciting opportunity for someone wanting to help continue to build out a compliance program for a large multistate organization.

Consistent with LifeStance’s values, every member of the LifeStance team is expected to support each other and the mission, which may mean participating in projects and initiatives and performing functions and responsibilities not specifically outlined in this job description. In addition, a LifeStance Leader is expected to foster commitment to the organization’s mission and core values.

RESPONSIBILITIES
 

Corporate Compliance and Privacy

• Develop, implement, and oversee a comprehensive compliance program to meet federal, state, and local regulations
• Act as a trusted resource for compliance education, delivering training programs to staff, faculty, and leadership
• Monitor emerging regulatory requirements and enforcement trends, advising leadership on risks and opportunities
• Serve as Associate Privacy Officer, ensuring compliance with HIPAA, Part 2 Privacy, and other data/state sensitive health privacy laws
• Oversee privacy breach responses, investigations, and reporting requirements, while promoting best practices in privacy across clinical, research, and clinical operations
   

Regulatory Counsel

• Perform and advise on company team members on compliance with federal and state laws as well as presenting means to navigate these regulations
• Regulatory research, regulatory legal counsel, and create enterprise notices of areas of governmental focus.

Compliance Program Auditing and Monitoring

• Develop LifeStance auditing and monitoring work plans to ensure proactive efforts to detect and prevent compliance concerns and regulatory violations.
• Design project plans, own, lead and delegate/oversee projects, or portions, to completion or until risk is mitigated.
• Fosters a company-wide commitment to the compliance program by collaborating with cross functional leadership to investigate and review/revise practices as part of the company’s auditing and monitoring program.

Enterprise Risk Management

• Lead the enterprise risk management program to identify, assess, and mitigate significant organizational risks
• Manage the corporate insurance program to safeguard institutional assets
   

Leadership and Collaboration

• Manage compliance team members to drive the company’s compliance efforts and create a collaborative and highly effective team.<