This role does require traveling to the homes and in the community of the clients we serve.

Chief Clinical Director

About Paragon Behavioral Health Connections

Paragon Behavioral Health Connections is a Colorado technology-powered behavioral health organization offering seamless digital health and in-home services. Paragon offers comprehensive care that is convenient for where people live. Our vision is to provide services to families with complex needs, help resolve challenges, and obtain skills and resources to achieve well-being. Paragon Mission: Offering comprehensive and personalized care that uplifts families and cultivates supportive connections within our community.

Paragon’s comprehensive services support youth and families through challenges as they step down from inpatient hospitalization, comprehensive support for child welfare-involved families, and services for youth with complex needs including depression, behavioral challenges, trauma, family conflict, and substance use.

Why Join Paragon?

Autonomous Environment: You are able to create your own systems for managing and accomplishing tasks, use creative problem solving, and have the ability to work independently – as long as the end product of your efforts meets organizational goals.

Collaboration and Teamwork: Communicate, collaborate, and touch base with a wide variety of other team members, to ensure alignment of quality care and outcomes for clients.

Benefits: Employees working a minimum of 30 hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits provided by Paragon BHC. These benefits include health, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and life insurance coverage, all of which are covered at 100% by the employer. These benefits are offered through reputable providers such as United Health Care, Delta Dental, and Principal. Additionally, the company extends health coverage to the employees' families, ensuring that not only the employees but also their families receive complete health coverage. Rest assured, you will receive your full salary, post-tax deductions, thanks to this extensive coverage.

Career Development: Paragon is consistently growing and that means there is room for growth. As we expand our services and community reach staff can grow in their areas of interest and expertise

Position Summary:The Chief Clinical Director is responsible for the management and oversight, planning, organizing, implementing, and directing the overall clinical operations of Paragon Behavioral Health Connections (Paragon) through the Regional Directors and provides thought leadership around specific topics and emerging practice areas. Promotes organizational growth and financial prosperity by developing, directing, and implementing plans for mission-driven, need-based, improved, and expanded programs. Reports to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). 

Essential Functions:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Strategy and Vision 

• Works closely with the Chief Executive Officer to develop and implement a board-directed and long-term strategic planning process that supports values-based and client-centered mission attainment. 
• Identifies and establishes operational practices and priorities that enable sustainable growth and infrastructure that ensures our clinical teams are successful and supported to deliver high quality care in communities.
• Serves as the Program liaison to the Board of Directors, effectively communicating and providing Program Management summaries at select board meetings. 

Programmatic and Clinical Operational Leadership 

• Actively pursues program growth and development opportunities by identifying unmet community needs and develops successful programs and treatment options aligned with clinical standards and best practices. Provides day to day leadership supervision and guidance to the Programmatic Leadership teams to ensure the delivery of client centered care through strong and effective written policies and procedures that encourage culture of risk-managed, patient-centered, trauma informed practices and high quality treatment.
• Develops and implements work flows and practices that ensure multidisciplinary care for families we serve. Ensures skillbuilding supports that are relevant and aligned to the treatment plan and aligned with the organizational mission and vision. 
• Manages incoming referrals for service and prioritizes assignments to regions and providers based on the needs of the client and family, while ensuring adequate staffing levels and licensure requirements based on referral patterns are maintained. 
• Will require back up after hours coverage for crisis clinicians that may need a licensed supervisor in instances where a mental health hold is required. On scheduled weekends and evenings may provide consultative support to clinicians that are in the community with our clients. 
• Ensures the assessment, treatment planning, therapy, discharge planning, and care management (if appropriate) of assigned clients and families. 
• Establishes and monitors assigned staff performance, assigns accountabilities, sets objectives, and establishes priorities and ensures that staff members receive helpful periodic evaluations and development reviews at Program. 
• Oversees the strategy for clinical supervision for staff and the essential skill building and growth of staff entering the field. Coaches, mentors and ensures strategic alignment for Regional Directors and leaders to promote strong collaborative teams that are aligned with the mission.
• Represents Paragon and interacts with regulatory agencies, insurance carriers, and other professional and community groups as appropriate. 

Financial Responsibilities 

• Identifies opportunities for expansion and programmatic growth that align with the organizational mission of serving individuals needing complex and higher acuity care in communities.
• Ensures Paragon's long-term financial stability through sound practice management including determining adequate and fiscally responsible staffing and salary levels and key performance indicators that balance clinical quality and financial abundance. 
• Ensures all billing activities capture delivered services in a timely fashion and in compliance with and in support of payor requirements. 

Quality and Outcomes

• Collaborates with the Director of Quality to align performance improvement initiatives in order to ensure more effective and efficient Program performance through reporting and monitoring of organizational performance metrics by identifying, collecting, and analyzing outcome metrics consistent with the organization’s mission and state directed benchmarks.
• Partners with Quality and Outcomes Director to achieve Joint Commission certification or other certifications that align with the organizational strategic objectives to deliver comprehensive care models across Colorado. 
• Ensures compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and any other privacy practices and the consistent application of sanctions for failure to comply with privacy policies for all individuals in the workforce, extended workforce, and for all business associates. 

Health Information Technology 

• Identifies and participates in potential technology solutions that support clinical staff in the field while ensuring streamlined processes that reduce redundancies. Ensures clinical information is captured in the EHR (Electronic Health Record) that creates, stores, and processes client information ensuring HIPAA Compliance. 

Supervisory duties: 

• Directly manages the Clinical Regional Directors in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees, planning, assigning and directing work including goal and direction setting, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems. 

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Ability to consistently promote, support, work, and act in a manner in support of Paragon’s Mission and Vision. 
• Strong written and oral communication skills. 
• Knowledge of leadership and management principles, theories, and practices.
• Knowledge of Medicaid regulatory rules and guidelines as well as all Third-Party payor and contract requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of co occurring treatment needs including serious mental illness, developmental and intergenerational trauma, and substance abuse disorders and their treatment by a variety of appropriate therapeutic interventions; risk assessment and crisis intervention; and knowledge of community resources and psychosocial factors that contribute to
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex or diverse information, identify and resolve problems in a timely manner; gather and analyze data and information skillfully; develop alternative solutions; work well in group problem solving situations and use reason even when dealing with emotional topics. 
• Demonstrated ability to manage difficult or emotional client situations; respond promptly to client needs; solicit client feedback to improve service; respond to requests for service and assistance and meet commitments. 
• Demonstrated ability to approach others in a tactful manner; react well under pressure; treat others with respect and inspire the trust of others and work with integrity 

Education:

• A Masters (MS) Degree, in mental health, such as social work, psychology, counseling, marriage and family therapy, or a related subject area is required. 

Experience:

• A minimum of seven (7) years of experience working in the behavioral healthcare field that includes design of delivery systems, clinical supervision and leadership development. Expertise in operational practices and standards that includes reimbursement and revenue cycle, documentation practices and regulatory requirements in the industry.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted on a year for year basis. 

Additional Requirements/Licenses/Certifications:

• Licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Psychologist or similar advanced level is required. 
• A valid driver’s license and proof of automobile insurance is required. 
• Reliable transportation, telephone and e-mail access is required as the position is region-based and involves frequent travel within that region. 
• Passing a driving record (MVR), state and national criminal background, Nationwide Sex Offender, and Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) “Trails” child abuse and neglect database checks and a Non-Department of Transportation five (5) panel drug test will be required prior to the start of employment. 

Working Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Work is generally performed in an indoor professional office environment. 
• Frequent local, statewide and national travel on behalf of the organization is required. • A 40-hour work will be achieved.
• Position requires flexibility of scheduled work hours which may include evening hours for meetings inside and outside of the organization. 

Physical Activities:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Ability to stand, lift, bend, walk and reach. 
• Some filing is required; it would require the ability to reach for and lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a small stool, as necessary. 
• Ability to operate an automobile. 
• Requires reaching with arms and hands, having good manual dexterity, using hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard, handle or feel 
• Ability to hear alarms/telephones/normal speaking voice. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus. 
• Physical effort generally not required; however, light physical effort may be required by moving and positioning objects up to 20 pounds occasionally and / or 10 pounds frequently. 

Job Type: Full-Time

Salary : $90,000 - $110,000

Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance. Additionally, the company extends health coverage to the employees' families, ensuring that not only the employees but also their families receive complete health coverage.
• 401(k) plan
• Life insurance
• Discretionary Time Off (DTO)