Vice President, Behavioral Health Strategy & Operations

Location:Orange County CA
Salary:$175000$225000 Performance Bonus
Employment Type:Full-Time

Salus Homecare has served Southern California families for more than 20 years. We are now expanding into behavioral health and are seeking an experienced executive tobuild launch and grow a new behavioral health division in Orange County.

This is abuilder rolenot an administrator role.

We are looking for someone who has personally taken a behavioral health program fromconcept to launch to growthand knows what it takes to build the team infrastructure referral network and financial model.

The Vice President will own the development and launch of Saluss behavioral health platform including:

• Develop the business plan service model and financial model.
• Lead licensing regulatory payer and compliance requirements.
• Build the clinical and operational leadership team.
• Establish policies workflows systems and infrastructure.
• Develop referral relationships with hospitals physicians health systems and community partners.
• Develop payer and managed care relationships.
• Launch the initial program and build census and revenue.
• Manage the divisions P&L and operating performance.
• Scale the business once the initial model is proven.

You havepersonally built and launched a behavioral health program or service linenot simply managed one that was already established.

You should be able to describe:

• What you built and your specific role.
• How you took it from concept to first patient.
• How you recruited the initial team.
• How you developed referral sources.
• What licensing regulatory or payer requirements you navigated.
• The census revenue and growth you achieved.
• The challenges you encountered and how you solved them.

• 8 years of progressive behavioral health leadership experience.
• Proven experiencebuilding and launchinga behavioral health program.
• Experience with behavioral health operations staffing referral development and reimbursement.
• P&L or significant budget management experience.
• Strong knowledge of California behavioral health regulations and compliance.
• Strong business development and relationship-building skills.

• Experience launching programs in California.
• Orange County/Southern California behavioral health relationships.
• Experience with outpatient mental health IOP PHP community-based behavioral health crisis services or integrated behavioral health.
• Masters degree in a relevant field.

• Build a new behavioral health division within an established healthcare company.
• Leverage Saluss 20 years of community presence and existing infrastructure.
• Direct partnership with executive leadership.
• Significant opportunity to shape the strategy team culture and growth of the division.
• $175000$225000 base salary performance bonus.
• Comprehensive benefits package.

If you have primarily managed established behavioral health programs this is probably not the right role.

If you havebuilt one from the ground up and know how to do it again we want to meet you.

Describe the behavioral health program you personally built and launched. Include the program type your specific role time from concept to first patient initial staffing and the census/revenue achieved within the first 1224 months.