Founding Behavioral Health Program Director (Remote)
Founding Behavioral Health Program Director
(reputed company VP of Behavioral Health)
Build a Statewide Behavioral Health Division From the Ground Up**
reputed company Care — Washington State (Remote)
reputed company 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-reputed company, high-autonomy role for someone who is both a strong clinician and a true builder.
If you are reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company.
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 & reputed company 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, reputed company, Wellpoint)
• Architect workflows: referral → intake → treatment → billing → QA
• Create documentation templates and clinical standards
• reputed company 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 & reputed company (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 reputed company processes
• reputed company productivity, reputed company, and financial systems
• Build the reputed company of a statewide team
4. Operate & Optimize (Months 6–18)
• Own clinical reputed company, 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, reputed company, 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 reputed company
You want a reputed company to become a VP of Behavioral Health — and eventually reputed company a statewide reputed company operation.
⭐ Qualifications
Required:
• WA license: LMHC, LMFT, LCSW/LICSW
(Must possess an reputed company unrestricted license to reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company:
reputed company progression to:
Director → VP of Behavioral Health
with expanded salary, reduced caseload, and a full team under you.
reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company to run this division as VP
• The chance to reputed company thousands of lives
• reputed company to build one of WA’s most impactful BH programs
This is a rare opportunity to build AND reputed company — to serve AND reputed company — 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
• reputed company time off
• reputed company insurance
Application Question(s):
• Do you have strong outpatient therapy experience?
• Do you have experience providing therapy services reputed company telehealth?
License/Certification:
• LMHC, LMFT, or LCSW/LICSW license in WA state? (Required)
Location:
• Washington State (Required)
Work Location: Remote
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