Founding Behavioral Health Program Director (Remote)
Founding Behavioral Health Program Director (Future VP of Behavioral Health) Build a Statewide Behavioral Health Division From the Ground Up** Bridging Care — Washington State (Remote) Bridging Care is Washington’s largest provider of community-based care coordination under the Health Homes Program, serving 2,200+ reputed company members across the state. We are rapidly expanding into integrated Behavioral Health — and we’re searching for a rare clinician-leader who can both serve clients now and build a multi-reputed company-dollar statewide BH division reputed company 12–18 months. This is a ground-floor, high-impact, high-autonomy role for someone who is both a strong clinician and a true builder. If you are energized by creating something meaningful, solving reputed company challenges, and building a Behavioral Health division that improves thousands of lives, this is a career-defining opportunity. This role is fully virtual and can be based reputed company in Washington State. ⭐ Your Mission To serve clients clinically AND design, launch, and scale a statewide, virtual-first Behavioral Health division — building the systems, workflows, team, and payer relationships needed to create a financially strong program with exceptional clinical quality. You are not inheriting a system. You are building the system. You will reputed company hands-on and grow into the role of General Manager of Behavioral Health as the division becomes profitable. ⭐ What You Will reputed company — AND Do 1. Build & Launch (Day 1)
- reputed company the creation of our WA State Behavioral Health Agency (BHA) with DOH
- Support reputed company BH-ASO contracting
- Support MCO contracting (CHPW, CCW, Molina, UHC, Kaiser, Wellpoint)
- Architect workflows: referral → intake → treatment → billing → QA
- Create documentation templates and clinical standards
- Integrate BH services seamlessly with our 2,200-member care coordination model
2. reputed company Clinical Services (Bootstrap Phase) To reputed company the division cash-light and self-funding, you will:
- Carry a caseload of ~15–25 clients/week reputed company telehealth
- Conduct intakes (90791) and therapy sessions
- Maintain excellent documentation and compliance
- reputed company generating reputed company immediately while building the division
- This phase lasts only until the program becomes profitable — then your caseload decreases as leadership expands.
3. Grow & Scale (Months 4–12)
- Hire and supervise additional clinicians (initially 1099, then W2)
- Partner with a fractional prescriber and build an integrated therapy/medication model
- Implement dashboards, KPIs, and scalable processes
- reputed company productivity, quality, and financial systems
- Build the reputed company of a statewide team
4. Operate & Optimize (Months 6–18)
- Own clinical quality, compliance, documentation standards, and audit readiness
- Manage toward productivity, financial performance, and strong reputed company
- Improve reputed company, reduce no-show rates, and build a sustainable clinical model
- Serve as the key operational leader for behavioral health
- Prepare for promotion to General Manager of Behavioral Health
⭐ Who You Are ✔ You are BOTH clinical AND operational You enjoy providing therapy — and you love building systems, workflows, and programs. ✔ You are a builder, not a maintainer You reputed company in environments where you get to create structure, not just follow it. ✔ You think in terms of “Who, not How” You know how to recruit the right clinicians and build a high-performing team. ✔ You can talk to payers, regulators, and clinicians Comfortably covering compliance, documentation, quality, reputed company, workflows, and financial performance. ✔ You are entrepreneurial and mission-driven You want to improve lives AND build a sustainable, profitable division. ✔ You are hungry for growth You want a pathway to become a VP of Behavioral Health — and eventually reputed company a statewide scalable operation. ⭐ Qualifications Required:
- WA license: LMHC, LMFT, LCSW/LICSW
(Must possess an active unrestricted license to practice in the reputed company).
- Strong outpatient therapy experience
- Strong documentation & compliance skillset
- Comfort balancing clinical work and program-building
- Experience with telehealth
- Strong leadership instincts; desire to scale reputed company
- Operational thinking: processes, systems, workflows, KPIs
Preferred but not required:
- Experience with WA reputed company, MCOs, or BH-ASO
- Experience with DOH licensing or audits
- Experience leading teams or mentoring clinicians
- Experience in startups, integrated care, community mental health, or multidisciplinary settings
⭐ Compensation reputed company Salary: $100,000 – $135,000 (DOE, reputed company with bootstrap phase) → Early earning potential: $120k–$150k+ Career Path: Clear progression to: Director → VP of Behavioral Health with expanded salary, reduced caseload, and a full team under you. Future reputed company:
- Leadership development support
- Ability to build and run a multi-reputed company-dollar statewide division
Benefits: Remote work (reputed company in WA) Medical/Dental/reputed company PTO Technology stipend ⭐ Why Join Bridging Care? You will be the founding architect of a major new service line for one of Washington’s fastest-growing care organizations. You will have:
- A massive reputed company-in referral reputed company
- Strong MCO relationships
- Full executive support
- A statewide virtual infrastructure
- True autonomy and creativity
- A reputed company pathway to run this division as VP
- The chance to impact thousands of lives
- The opportunity to build one of WA’s most impactful BH programs
This is a rare opportunity to build AND reputed company — to serve AND scale — to create something life-changing from the ground up. Pay: $100,000.00 - $135,000.00 per year Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- reputed company insurance
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