CEO (Facility)

Discovery Behavioral Health; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Discovery Behavioral Health is seeking a Chief Executive Officer to provide strategic leadership across the company, its divisions, and administrative departments. The CEO will build partnerships with hospitals, clinics, lenders, regulators, and vendors, and manage risks while guiding the organization toward growth and compliance.

The role emphasizes recruiting senior leaders, ensuring regulatory adherence, optimizing clinician and staff utilization, and directing financial performance and

Qualifications

• 15+ years' experience in behavioral health care and division or department management.
• Master's degree in social work, psychology, business or related area.
• Knowledge of health care environment and regulatory landscape.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, hire, develop and manage division directors and department managers.
• Oversee compliance with federal, state and local laws, regulations and clinical practices.
• Assist in maximizing utilization of clinicians and administrative staff.
• Review performance vs goals and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with senior management to identify opportunities.
• Foster external referral partnerships and ensure services are provided.
• Oversee state filings for company and divisions.
• Analyze profit and loss and review forecasts.
• Maximize and reduce expenditures and contract with vendors.
• Direct company operations and support strategic decisions.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic planning

Regulatory compliance

Vendor management

Finance forecasting

Education

Master's degree in social work, Psychology, Mental Illness, Business, or related area

Job description

Position Summary

The Chief Executive Officer provides strategic leadership and management of the company, business divisions, and administrative departments. The CEO reviews and approves division and departmental policies, procedures, and practices to help ensure the integrity of the business. The CEO develops strategic partnerships and functional working relationships with hospitals, health care clinics, financial institutions, lenders, competitors, state regulators, and vendors. The CEO oversees business division and departmental management and employees as needed. The CEO identifies and manages business risks.

Essential Job Functions

• Recruits, hires, develops and manages high quality business division directors and department managers.
• Oversees the firm's compliance with federal, state and local laws, regulations and clinical practices.
• Assists in maximizing and optimizing the company's utilization of clinicians and administrative staff.
• Reviews division and departmental performance versus goals and recommends corrective actions.
• Collaborates with other senior management team to help identify, prepare for, and capture new opportunities.
• Reviews and fosters external referral partnerships and ensures adequate health care services are provided.
• Oversees the successful completion of company's and division's state agency filings.
• Analyzes the company's profit and loss and reviews clinical, staff and financial forecasts.
• Maximizes and reduces company expenditures and helps evaluate and contract with new vendors.
• Helps direct company operations.
• Reviews all information and data necessary for strategic decisions and business division guidance.
• Reviews and enforces the company's clinical and administrative policies, procedures and practices.

Knowledge, Education, Experience:

• 15+ years' experience in behavioral health care, chemical dependency services, and division or department management.
• Master's degree in social work, Psychology, Mental Illness, Business, or related area.
• Knowledge and a thorough understanding of the health care environment.

Employment Status: Full-Time

Schedule: Exempt

Work Location: On-Site in Houston

Compensation: Pay Range: $180,000 - $215,000/annually