Administrative Director, Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital

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The Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital (VPH) was founded as a psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents. The hospital has expanded its services and now provides services for children, adolescents, and adults. Residents in their PGY 1 and PGY 2 year spend time on each of the following acute inpatient units: Child, Adolescent, General Adult, Psychotic Disorders, and Addiction. Outpatient services include Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP).

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform administrative and/or management functions involving independent exercise of judgment and discretion.
• Establish and maintain professional liaison with clients, university faculty and staff, students, and professional groups.
• Serve as a member of the departmental administrative team
• Attend meetings and interact with other staff or organizations as requested by department leadership
• Exercise discretion and control over programs, projects, and assignments
• Establish and lead project plans, liaison among student groups, academic leadership and project directors, volunteer units, and service areas and other areas as required.
• Respond to special focus groups (staff, faculty, students, government, and community liaison) in complex program/project development; prepare complex and confidential written communication as required.
• Facilitate meetings to gather supportive data, concerns, and ideas to develop program in support of program/project objectives.
• Develop financial information for review and analysis.
• Present financial data and recommendations relating to income and expenditures.
• Create customized budget reports for programs and key divisions.
• Manage equipment inventory and space utilization.
• Develop and manage departmental human resource administration for multiple supervisors.
• Develop maintain and communicate departmental policies, procedures, and processes.
• Supervise the maintenance of confidential records dealing with payroll actions, employee performance and related personnel activities.
• Conduct research projects utilizing statistical analyses; prepare recommendations and decision alternatives.
• Present recommendations to management for approval and implementation.
• Facilitate projects and oversee committees in support of program goals.
• Represents Vanderbilt University and/or Vanderbilt University Medical Center's point of view to agencies, organizations and the general public.
• Administrative oversite for current programs: 3 PHP programs and 2 IOPs.
• Development/expansion of PHP and IOP throughout the VUMC network.
• Community representation at state and local associations.
• National representation at Association of Ambulatory Behavioral Health (AABH).
• Administrative backup coverage for Assistant Director of Behavioral Health Ambulatory Clinics .
• Collaborates with Assistant Director of PAS to expand and create a consolidated referral admission process for PHP/IOP.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• 5 years experience (Required)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's prepared (MBA, MHA, Social Work, etc.)
• 7 years experience
• Background in Behavioral Health
• Direct Clinical Service Delivery Experience

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