New York State Office of Mental Health
Deputy Director, Psychiatric Center 1 - Quality Management, Elmira Psychiatric Center, P27226
This role oversees the Quality Management Program at Elmira Psychiatric Center and serves as an essential member of the facility's Executive Management Team. It involves working closely with facility leadership to develop, implement, interpret, and evaluate the facility's mission, goals, and policies, while ensuring high-quality care and compliance with regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities
- • oversee their Quality Management Program
- • participates in developing, implementing, interpreting, and evaluating the facility's mission, goals, and policies and how they impact the care and clinical treatment provided to the adults, youth,, and families they serve
- • Supervising all departments assigned to the Quality Management Program - program evaluation, risk management, utilization review, health information management, and staff development
- • Ensuring compliance with OMH, The Joint Commission (TJC), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and external regulatory agencies standards, cultural competence, and continuous quality improvement
- • Ensuring high-quality and effective care in both inpatient and outpatient programs
Required
- • A master’s degree in a mental hygiene discipline, hospital or health administration, or other administrative area specifically related to health care, sociology, statistics, or quantitative research; or a license to practice medicine in New York State or Canada
- • Six (6) years of experience in a mental health program or health care setting
- • Four (4) years of managerial experience in one quality management component area, such as program evaluation, clinical risk management, standards compliance, survey readiness, utilization review, or a closely related area; or
- • Three (3) years of managerial experience in two of the above quality management component areas; or
- • Two (2) years of managerial experience in three of the above quality management component areas
Benefits & Perks
- • Generous paid time off, including thirteen (13) vacation days, eight (8) sick days, and five (5) personal days accrued during the first year of employment; thirteen (13) paid holidays each year
- • Option to choose a NYS health insurance plan that meets your needs
- • Dental and vision coverage
- • Enrollment in the New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS) or a voluntary defined contribution plan
Duties Description
Elmira Psychiatric Center (EPC); a Joint Commission accredited Office of Mental Health (OMH) facility, is recruiting a Deputy Director, Psychiatric Center 1 - Quality Management (DDPC 1 - QM) to oversee their Quality Management Program.
The DDPC 1 - QM is an essential member of the facility's Executive Management Team. Under the general direction of the Executive Director and in close collaboration with the facility leadership team at EPC, the DDPC 1 – QM participates in developing, implementing, interpreting, and evaluating the facility's mission, goals, and policies and how they impact the care and clinical treatment provided to the adults, youth,, and families they serve.
The DDPC 1 – QM is responsible for:
Minimum Qualifications:
AND
Additional Comments
EPC offers a full range of comprehensive behavioral health services to adults with serious mental illness and children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances in New York’s Southern Tier and Finger Lakes regions. In addition to Joint Commission accreditation, EPC is a teaching site for psychiatry residents from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM), Arnot Ogden Medical Center (Centralus Health), and SUNY Upstate Medical Center.
EPC provides recovery-oriented and patient-centered behavioral health treatment to individuals in ten (10) counties in the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes region. These services include inpatient, clinic, day treatment, residential, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Health Home Care Management (HHCM), and Mobile Integration Team (MIT). EPC promotes a system of care in which treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery are realized through ongoing collaboration with patients, their families, and service providers in their catchment area.
About OMH
OMH operates the largest state mental health system in the country, with 23 hospitals, 90 clinics, two world-class research institutes, a secure residential center, and a network of community services. OMH hospitals are all Joint Commission-accredited and recognized as among the best mental health hospital systems in the United States. OMH believes everyone should have an equal opportunity to achieve mental wellness. This means implementing services and policies to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for historically marginalized, underserved, and unserved populations.
If you would like to join EPC and contribute to a workforce dedicated to public service, we offer:
Elmira Psychiatric Center (EPC); a Joint Commission accredited Office of Mental Health (OMH) facility, is recruiting a Deputy Director, Psychiatric Center 1 - Quality Management (DDPC 1 - QM) to oversee their Quality Management Program.
The DDPC 1 - QM is an essential member of the facility's Executive Management Team. Under the general direction of the Executive Director and in close collaboration with the facility leadership team at EPC, the DDPC 1 – QM participates in developing, implementing, interpreting, and evaluating the facility's mission, goals, and policies and how they impact the care and clinical treatment provided to the adults, youth,, and families they serve.
The DDPC 1 – QM is responsible for:
- Supervising all departments assigned to the Quality Management Program - program evaluation, risk management, utilization review, health information management, and staff development.
- Ensuring compliance with OMH, The Joint Commission (TJC), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and external regulatory agencies standards, cultural competence, and continuous quality improvement.
- Ensuring high-quality and effective care in both inpatient and outpatient programs.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education
AND
- Experience
- Four (4) years of managerial experience in one quality management component area, such as program evaluation, clinical risk management, standards compliance, survey readiness, utilization review, or a closely related area; or
- Three (3) years of managerial experience in two of the above quality management component areas; or
- Two (2) years of managerial experience in three of the above quality management component areas.
Additional Comments
EPC offers a full range of comprehensive behavioral health services to adults with serious mental illness and children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances in New York’s Southern Tier and Finger Lakes regions. In addition to Joint Commission accreditation, EPC is a teaching site for psychiatry residents from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM), Arnot Ogden Medical Center (Centralus Health), and SUNY Upstate Medical Center.
EPC provides recovery-oriented and patient-centered behavioral health treatment to individuals in ten (10) counties in the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes region. These services include inpatient, clinic, day treatment, residential, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Health Home Care Management (HHCM), and Mobile Integration Team (MIT). EPC promotes a system of care in which treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery are realized through ongoing collaboration with patients, their families, and service providers in their catchment area.
About OMH
OMH operates the largest state mental health system in the country, with 23 hospitals, 90 clinics, two world-class research institutes, a secure residential center, and a network of community services. OMH hospitals are all Joint Commission-accredited and recognized as among the best mental health hospital systems in the United States. OMH believes everyone should have an equal opportunity to achieve mental wellness. This means implementing services and policies to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for historically marginalized, underserved, and unserved populations.
If you would like to join EPC and contribute to a workforce dedicated to public service, we offer:
- Generous paid time off, including thirteen (13) vacation days, eight (8) sick days, and five (5) personal days accrued during the first year of employment; thirteen (13) paid holidays each year.
- Option to choose a NYS health insurance plan that meets your needs.
- Dental and vision coverage.
- Enrollment in the New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS) or a voluntary defined contribution plan.
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