Behavioral Health Department Manager

Position Summary 

Blackbird Clinical Services is looking to hire a Behavioral Health Manager to join our growing team. This role will hire, manage, lead and support our 1099, Contract Behavioral Health Therapists. Our ideal candidate is a seasoned child or adolescent clinician (LPC, LMFT, LCSW, PsyD) who has experience building and retaining a Therapist team while ensuring high quality of patient care and outcomes. You will excel in this role if you thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy supporting the growth of other clinicians. You are also excited to hold and maintain a caseload of patients in this role, providing individual direct care therapy. 

What makes you, you: 

• Evidence based provider who holds specialized training in children and adolescents
• Compassionate and empathetic leader, you know how to communicate effectively with a diverse group of therapists. 
• Experienced in interviewing and hiring therapists, you are comfortable asking hard questions to other providers understanding the quality of the provider is of utmost importance to uphold the Blackbird standard of care. 
• High attention to detail, and experience conducting clinical quality reviews, including therapeutic alliance scores, and provider documentation and quality. 
• Operationally focused, you excel when there is order and consistency. 
• Thrive in cross functional settings, to drive positive outcomes for patients.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Hold and maintain a patient case load and contribute to the overall wellbeing and outcomes of Blackbird patients and families
• Scale a 1099 clinical team and partner with Talent Acquisition to interview and hire high quality providers
• Establish programs for provider learning, development and demonstrating and supporting clinical best practices 
• Build a community with our provider network and own retention efforts to support provider satisfaction 
• Facilitate product improvements, implementation and provider feedback to enhance product offerings
• Work to solve provider and patient issues and concerns

Why Blackbird is unique: 

• Immediate referrals available; guaranteed caseload and patient facing hours
• Flexible schedule – set your own hours 
• Full credentialing services provided - we will take care of everything
• Clinical development and trainings
• Excellent administrative support -- focus on the clinical work and we will take care of the rest
• Weekly clinical consultations: this is paid time for all providers
• Supportive work culture

The basics you’ll need:

• Hold a LPC, LMFT, LCSW or PsyD in PA and/or VA
• 3-5 years of experience working with children and adolescents ages 2-26 
• 1-3 years of experience managing, leading and supervising other independently licensed therapist

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k (with a company match)
• Employer-paid life insurance coverage
• Generous paid time off
• Opportunities for career growth
• Diverse and experienced leadership team, supportive work culture