Senior Director of Behavioral Health

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Lead an Integrated Continuum of Behavioral Health Care

SeaView Community Services is seeking an experienced, collaborative, and mission-driven Senior Director of Behavioral Health to lead the coordination, quality, and continued development of our behavioral health programs. As SeaView’s senior behavioral health leader, you will work closely with the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Leadership Team to translate organizational priorities into effective programs and exceptional client care. You will help strengthen continuity across residential, outpatient, community-based, psychiatric, crisis, recovery, substance use, and youth and family services.

This is an opportunity for an accomplished behavioral health professional to make a meaningful organizational and community impact while helping shape the future of behavioral health care in Seward, Alaska.

About SeaView Community Services

SeaView Community Services is a nonprofit behavioral health organization that has served Seward and the surrounding communities since 1972. We provide a broad continuum of services designed to support recovery, strengthen individuals and families, and respond to the behavioral health needs of our community.

Our work is grounded in collaboration, accountability, compassion, and a commitment to delivering accessible, person-centered care.

• Serve as a member of the Executive Leadership Team and a principal behavioral health advisor to the CEO.
• Help establish strategic priorities and translate them into clear program goals, expectations, and accountable work plans.
• Provide leadership and oversight for assigned behavioral health programs and clinical leaders.
• Monitor program access, engagement, census, productivity, length of stay, transitions, client outcomes, and service quality.
• Identify barriers between programs and departments and lead practical improvements to referrals, admissions, care coordination, discharge planning, and follow-up.
• Collaborate with Finance, Revenue Cycle, Operations, Admissions, Compliance and Training, and Community Outreach.

• Promote trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, person-centered, and evidence-informed care.
• Establish consistent expectations for assessment, treatment planning, clinical documentation, case consultation, discharge planning, and care coordination.
• Support clinical supervisors and directors with complex cases, ethical concerns, client grievances, safety issues, and clinical decision-making.
• Coordinate with SeaView’s psychiatrist and clinical leaders to strengthen psychiatric services and the integration of physical and behavioral health care.
• Review critical incidents, clinical trends, and service concerns and ensure appropriate corrective or preventive follow-up.
• Provide leadership-level consultation during urgent clinical, program, or client-safety situations.

• Provide clear direction, regular supervision, coaching, and performance feedback to direct reports.
• Participate in the recruitment, onboarding, retention, succession planning, and performance management of behavioral health leaders and other key staff.
• Strengthen clinical supervision structures and ensure employees receive the consultation and training required for their roles.
• Foster a culture of accountability, respectful communication, professional development, teamwork, and shared responsibility for SeaView’s mission.

• Ensure programs operate in accordance with Medicaid standards, state and federal regulations, grant and contract requirements, accreditation standards, and SeaView policies.
• Partner with SeaView’s compliance leadership to maintain audit readiness, respond to findings, and complete corrective action plans.
• Promote timely, accurate, and clinically appropriate documentation that supports client care, medical necessity, authorization, and reimbursement.
• Use program data, client outcomes, incident trends, feedback, and quality reviews to identify and measure opportunities for improvement.
• Support the development and implementation of effective policies, procedures, clinical standards, and workflows.

• Collaborate with Finance and program leaders to develop and manage budgets, staffing models, productivity expectations, and financial improvement plans.
• Monitor census, utilization, staffing, service capacity, authorizations, documentation, and billing readiness.
• Support grant development, implementation, reporting, and the integration of grant-funded services into SeaView’s continuum of care.
• Evaluate opportunities to improve, expand, redesign, or discontinue services based on community need, clinical effectiveness, workforce capacity, regulatory requirements, and financial feasibility.

• Build effective relationships with hospitals, schools, courts, referral sources, state partners, community providers, and other behavioral health stakeholders.
• Represent SeaView in community meetings, coalitions, and system-level initiatives.
• Help strengthen access to care, referral partnerships, and public understanding of SeaView’s services.

The successful candidate will be a thoughtful and decisive leader who can balance clinical quality, program operations, workforce development, compliance, and financial sustainability. This individual must be comfortable leading through change, developing other leaders, and working across departments to solve complex challenges.

• Master’s or doctoral degree in social work, counseling, psychology, marriage and family therapy, or a closely related behavioral health field.
• At least five years of progressively responsible behavioral health leadership experience.
• Experience supervising clinical or program leaders and overseeing program operations.
• Current Alaska LCSW, LPC, LMFT, or another independent behavioral health license appropriate to the position, or eligibility to obtain Alaska licensure.
• Current Alaska LPC-S designation or similar in another state.
• Strong clinical judgment and knowledge of diagnostic assessment, treatment planning, trauma-informed care, recovery models, and co-occurring treatment.
• Knowledge of Medicaid documentation and billing requirements, quality improvement practices, and behavioral health regulatory standards.
• Ability to interpret program and financial information, establish accountability, manage competing priorities, and communicate effectively.
• Valid driver’s license and satisfactory driving record.
• Current CPR and First Aid certification or the ability to obtain certification within SeaView’s required timeframe.