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Program Director, PPOC Behavioral Health Integration

Boston Children's Hospital
$140649.60-$225024.80 Annual
dental insurance, 403(b)
United States, Massachusetts, Wellesley
Nov 06, 2026
Position Summary
Reporting to the PPOC Senior Director of Quality, Patient Safety, and Population Health and partnering with the BCH Department of Psychiatry Chief of Early Childhood, Training, and Education, the Program Director of Behavioral Health Integration leads the PPOC Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP).
The Program Director oversees strategy, operations, implementation, and outcomes to advance health, care quality, health equity, provider well-being, and cost-effective care. Working with PPOC and BCH leaders and Behavioral Health Integration Managers (BHIMs), the Program Director executes PPOC's behavioral health strategy through education, consultation, specialty access, research, and evidence-based practices.
Key Responsibilities
  • Direct the BHIP and implement the behavioral health strategy developed with PPOC leadership and BHIMs.
  • Partner with the BCH Department of Psychiatry, Senior Director of QPSPH, and CMO to oversee behavioral health education, learning communities, and clinician development.
  • Lead and support BHIMs; monitor program performance, outcomes, and improvement efforts.
  • Manage operations, staffing, assignments, deployment, and complex patient or practice issues.
  • Oversee recruitment, hiring, credentialing, onboarding, retention, and development of practice-based behavioral health clinicians.
  • Establish interdisciplinary meetings and communication processes to monitor and improve quality and outcomes.
  • Apply continuous quality improvement and evidence-based practices to advance behavioral health integration and PPOC goals.
  • Collaborate with PPOC leaders and program directors on quality, patient safety, and population health initiatives.
  • Build relationships with primary care providers, subspecialists, hospital and community teams, and policymakers to improve care coordination and access.
  • Resolve escalated provider, patient, and family concerns and identify service improvements.
  • Review and recommend BHIP operational budgets.
  • Partner with Epic teams on behavioral health design, build, and implementation priorities.
  • Contribute to scholarly presentations and publications.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
Master's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Psychiatry, or a related behavioral health field required. Doctorate preferred.
Experience
  • Minimum of 8 years of director-level experience in psychology, psychiatry, social work, behavioral health, or related healthcare settings.
  • Experience implementing behavioral health integration in primary care or medical settings required; public policy and care management experience preferred.
  • Demonstrated leadership, management, recruitment, retention, and staff development experience.
  • Expertise in behavioral health program development, implementation, evidence-based practices, and continuous quality improvement.
  • Strong communication, presentation, relationship-building, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Ability to influence multidisciplinary teams and serve as an organizational spokesperson.
  • Demonstrated initiative, creativity, problem-solving, flexibility, organization, collaboration, and strategic thinking.

The posted pay range is Boston Children's reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.

Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, employee discounts and discounted commuter benefits at certain locations. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.

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