Director of Behavioral Health Integration | Palliative Care | Edison, New Jersey (Hybrid)
HybridEdison, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Design, launch, and oversee an integrated behavioral health program within a palliative care setting serving older adults with serious illnesses. Develop clinical and operational workflows supporting services across skilled nursing facilities, post-acute care, and community settings while establishing eligibility criteria, referral pathways, and triage processes. Create evidence-based protocols addressing depression, anxiety, grief, and caregiver stress, and collaborate with physicians, nurses, and social workers to integrate behavioral health into interdisciplinary care. Recruit, train, and supervise clinicians; monitor key performance indicators including patient access, referral conversion, and clinical outcomes. Maintain a limited clinical caseload while providing guidance on complex patient situations and lead ongoing program development and quality improvement initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- Independent clinical licensure
- Significant experience working with older adults, medically complex patients, or individuals living with serious illnesses
- Leadership experience in program development, clinical operations, behavioral health services, or interdisciplinary team management
- Demonstrated success developing clinical workflows, protocols, staffing models, and quality improvement initiatives
- Experience in palliative care, hospice, geriatrics, skilled nursing facilities, post-acute care, behavioral health, or related healthcare settings
- Strong clinical judgment in behavioral health assessment, crisis intervention, caregiver support, and interdisciplinary collaboration
- Excellent leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in palliative care, hospice, psycho-oncology, geriatrics, geropsychology, or serious illness care
- Experience developing, launching, or expanding integrated behavioral health programs
- Familiarity with telehealth models supporting medically complex or older adult populations
- Experience supervising clinicians, developing training programs, and leading multidisciplinary healthcare teams
- Ability to build scalable, patient-centered programs within a fast-paced and evolving healthcare environment
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