Director Outpatient Services

Oceans Healthcare; Norman (OK); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Oceans Healthcare in Norman, OK seeks a Director of Outpatient Services to lead the outpatient programs, coordinate with the DON and inpatient director, and ensure compliance with Joint Commission and state regulations.

The role includes supervising staff, developing clinical programming, coordinating staff education, overseeing discharge planning, and contributing to financial and quality metrics within a state-of-the-art behavioral health facility.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or counseling preferred, including LCSW, LPC, or LMFT.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in inpatient/outpatient psychiatric treatment, with at least 1 year of supervisory experience.
• At least 1 year of experience with chronically mentally ill, adult and geriatric populations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; strong writing ability.
• Ability to organize and prioritize high-volume workload and work with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provides direction, supervision, monitoring and disciplinary action for all staff of the Outpatient Program.
• Cooperates with management to develop, formulate, implement, and revise clinical programming proposals while adhering to regulatory standards.
• Provides, coordinates and monitors in-service opportunities for staff continuing education.
• Supervises utilization review and performance improvement in the outpatient setting.
• Provides and monitors compliance plans with age/disability/cultural sensitivity considerations.
• Conducts discharge planning and facilitates support groups to meet patient and family needs.
• Works with facility administrator to achieve financial goals and manage expenses and revenue.
• Provides and solicits facility performance information in writing and orally.

Skills

Communication

Staff supervision

Documentation/writing

Organizational skills

Patient care coordination

Education

MSW/MA in psychology

LCSW/LPC/LMFT preferred

Job description

Norman Regional Health System and Oceans Healthcare have partnered to expand access to behavioral health services in south central Oklahoma through construction of a new, state-of-the-art behavioral hospital.

Behavioral Health Center at Porter Health Village, a 48-bed facility, will more that double Norman Regional Health System’s inpatient capacity for adult and senior behavioral health patients and add new services, including an intensive outpatient program and a dedicated geriatric behavioral health unit. The freestanding hospital will be located on the Norman Regional Porter campus and replace the existing 20-bed behavioral health unit.

The Director, Outpatient Services is responsible for the overall leadership and operation of the facilities’ outpatient services and functions. This position coordinates with the DON and the inpatient clinical director to identify staffing issues and pertinent nursing care issues to ensure appropriate daily operations of the outpatient programs. The Director, Outpatient Services shall assure the outpatient program is adequately staffed and that programming meets the standards set in accordance with Joint Commission, Federal and State regulations, Oceans' Mission, policies and procedures and Performance Improvement Standards.

Essential Functions:

• Provides direction, supervision, monitoring and disciplinary action for all staff of the Outpatient Program.
• Cooperates and works with all members of the management team to develop, formulate, implement, and revise clinical programming proposals for recommendations to medical and professional staff and to adhere to regulatory body standards and meet facility goals and objectives.
• Provides, coordinates and monitors in-service opportunities for staff continuing education.
• Supervises utilization review and performance improvement in the outpatient setting.
• Provides/coordinates education to staff and monitoring for compliance plan, and specific age/disability/cultural sensitivity and diversity adherence, as well as demonstrates an ability to assess and interpret age/disability specific information and patient population response to treatment.
• Conducts treatment planning, discharge planning and facilitates support groups to meet the needs of patients and families.
• Works closely with the facility administrator to achieve the programs financial goals in regard to expense management and revenue production, as well as maintain overall administrative and committee structure.
• Provides and solicits customers, departments, and facility information orally and in writing on overall facility performance.
• Performs other duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

Educational / Experience Requirements:

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or counseling preferred, including LCSW, LPC, or LMFT.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in inpatient/outpatient psychiatric treatment preferred with at least 1 year of supervisory experience.
• At least 1 year of experience working with chronically mentally ill, adult and geriatric patient populations.

Qualifications / Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to foster cooperation across departmental lines and manage information, environmental, and fiscal resources to accomplish goals.
• Good writing and composition skills.
• Able to organize and prioritize high volume workload. Able to function with minimal supervision.
• Ability to maintain overall good work attitude and interact cooperatively and professionally with other staff members.
• Possess basic competency in age, disability, and cultural diversity needs of patients served and ability to relate to patients in a manner sensitive to those needs.
• Communicates in an age/disability related manner to patients and patients’ families.
• Must successfully complete BLS certification and an Oceans approved behavioral de-escalation program.

Subject to many interruptions. Occasional pressure due to multiple calls and inquiries. This position can be high paced and stressful; must be able to cope mentally and physically to atmosphere. This person might sometimes experience disagreeable odors, sights and/or unpredictable patient behavior. Work requires spending approximately 85% or more of the time inside a building, which offers protection.