Head of Psychiatric Practice
lifestance healthSpringfield (MA)
$252,000 - $315,000/annually
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Posted 6 days ago
lifestance healthSpringfield (MA)
SENIORITY
Manager
SALARY
$252,000 - $315,000/annually
About the role
LifeStance Health is seeking a collaborative, mission-driven professional for a clinical leadership role focused on advancing psychiatric practice excellence, developing standards, and implementing quality improvement initiatives. As part of a growing national behavioral health practice, the clinician will help design psychiatric Centers of Excellence and support clinician recruitment, retention, and wellbeing. The ideal candidate will thrive in a high-accountability environment and contribute to unified mental healthcare delivery nationwide. Practice Info Outpatient care setting, both in-person at clinics nationwide and through digital health telemedicine offerings National provider of mental healthcare services focused on evidenced-based, medically driven treatment services
Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain organizational psychiatric practice standards, treatment frameworks, and clinical expectations across markets and service lines
- Lead development and implementation of evidence-based psychiatric guidelines, tools, protocols, and practice resources
- Partner with Medical Leadership, Clinical Operations, Quality, Clinical Excellence, Learning & Development, and Measurement-Based Care teams to improve psychiatric care quality, safety, consistency, and outcomes
- Identify and address psychiatric practice variation through data review, education, and performance improvement initiatives
- Build and oversee a comprehensive clinician education and professional development curriculum across specialties and practice settings
- Design and oversee psychiatric provider excellence programs, including onboarding support, competency frameworks, mentoring structures, and ongoing professional development
- Assist with transition to uniform and singular EHR use across the organization and developing efficient EHR workflows and policies that support the clinical user
- Support development and review of psychiatric clinical policies, protocols, and standards that align with applicable laws, regulations, and professional expectations
- Monitor psychiatric quality metrics, patient safety trends, outcomes, and clinical effectiveness measures to inform improvement priorities
- Serve as a strategic advisor and subject matter expert regarding psychiatric practice trends, provider enablement, clinical risk, and standards of care
- Lead initiatives supporting physician wellbeing, joy in medicine, and burnout prevention across the enterprise
- Report on quality metrics, program outcomes, and workforce key performance indicators to the Vice President and C-suite stakeholders
- Compensation$252,000 - $315,000/annually
- Competitive bonus plan
- Equity potential
Qualifications:
- MD or DO with board certification in Psychiatry
- Active, unrestricted medical license and ability to maintain appropriate licensure requirements 10+ years of psychiatric clinical experience, including progressive leadership experience within healthcare or behavioral health organizations
- Demonstrated experience developing clinical standards, treatment frameworks, quality improvement initiatives, or provider excellence programs
- Strong understanding of psychiatric standards of care, patient safety, clinical governance, regulatory expectations, and evidence-based practice
- Familiar with value-based care frameworks
- Ability to influence senior clinical and operational stakeholders across a complex, matrixed organization
- Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills
- Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States
- Demonstrates awareness, inclusivity, sensitivity, humility, and experience in working with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, gender identities, and other various aspects of culture
- Multi-state behavioral health or outpatient mental health leadership experience (preferred)
- Experience leading physician practice transformation, clinical quality, or provider development initiatives (preferred)
- Published research or quality improvement scholarship (preferred)
- Experience using outcomes data, measurement-based care, or population-level clinical metrics to guide practice improvement (preferred)
- Experience representing psychiatric leadership in governance forums, executive discussions, or external professional settings (preferred)
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