This position is located at Defense Health Network DHN within the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Network under the policy guidance and direction of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (ASD (HA).

The DHA is responsible for the effective execution and operation of the Department of Defense (DoD) worldwide medical mission, which is to provide medical services and support to specified categories of individuals entitled to DoD medical care, providing support to the Uniformed Services in the management and administration of TRICARE, administering and managing the Defense Health Program budget and the management direction and control of the military medical treatment facilities. The DHN Defense Health Network is an intermediate management organization that provides management and administrative oversight and support to the Medical Treatment Facilities (MTF) aligned to it to ensure the delivery of integrated, affordable and high-quality healthcare to beneficiaries in accordance with the Defense Health Agency's (DHA) priorities of great outcomes, ready medical force, satisfied patients, and fulfilled staff.

This position requires expert knowledge and experience in the theory, application and implementation of a variety of sophisticated analytical techniques, resource management, strategic planning skills, and organizational design. Programs and projects managed are of great breadth and intensity and often involve proposed changes in legislation or regulations. The nature of assignments is highly complex, involving a high degree of creativity and experience with developing solutions to difficult problems concerning the multi-year, multi-service provision of healthcare. Position requires ability to integrate a wide variety of often competing objectives having major impacts on the planning, staffing, financing and delivery of healthcare while simultaneously incorporating planning constraints that may require the development of a portfolio of alternatives requiring concurrent consideration.

Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include competitive compensation packages, paid time off, medical benefits, student loan repayments, and retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions. For more information, please visit the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/benefits/  

Work is performed in an office setting and can require travel on a regular basis between the various Behavioral Health locations. Also may require frequent travel to the DHA Headquarters. Travel will be required.

The incumbent will use their Behavioral Health expertise to serve as the Behavioral Health Clinical Management Team Lead (BHSL) for the DHN. Employee functions as the key staff assistant with full responsibility and staff supervision relating to DHN wide Operations/Plans for Behavioral Health issues and initiatives. Represents and speaks for the Director, DHN in presenting, explaining, defining and negotiating DHN solutions in Operational development and guidance regarding the Behavioral Health System of Care (BHSOC), and specifically the Behavioral Health Clinical Management Team, and its numerous programs. The incumbent provides systematic management, initiative/program oversight, coordination and integration of all Behavioral Health requirements across the DHN and its aligned facilities. This includes the management of Behavioral Health operations designed to meet all DHA assigned missions. Exercises and maintains a working knowledge of training research and analysis techniques, and resource management skills. Responsible for a variety of resource activities, and the sustaining of various integrating functions and management services essential to the Behavioral Health Clinical Management Team responsibilities for technical integration management of all related information essential to the mission, goals, and objectives of the DHN. Provides expert guidance and oversight regarding the macro functions of DHA Behavioral Health.
The BHSL is an interconnected group of standardized programs delivering a continuum of BH services to Service Members (SM) and Family Members (FMs) and functions as a single coherent system to identify, prevent, treat and track BH concerns affection SM and FMs. The BHSL implements complementary BH enterprise programs, in supporting SM and FM who experience combat deployments and other demands of military life. There are 12 key clinical programs that comprise the BH: Portal Tele-Behavioral Health (TBH); Embedded Behavioral Health (EBH); Addictions Medicine Residential Treatment Facility (AMRTF); Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP); Multi-Disciplinary Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic (MULTI-D); Inpatient Behavioral Health (IBH); Child and Family Behavioral Health Services (CAFBHS); Family Advocacy Program (FAP); BH Training (BHTRAINING); BHSL Utilization Management (BHSL UM); Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH); and BH Support of Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment (BH-TBI). Serves as the Behavioral Health senior operational coordinator and integrator of DHN planning and individual requirements relating to Behavioral Health for the DHN. Consult and or advise the Operational director who integrates planning and consultant guidance and advises the Chief, Clinical Operations. Coordinate with DoD (Center of Excellence), Tri-Services, Veterans Administration, leading Civilian Organizations as well as officials of other service organizations, and joint service commands, for the purpose of explaining and promoting DHN solutions.Provide responsive interdisciplinary, analytical capability involving broad, undefined complex issue of either one time or recurring nature. Provide the nessessary support of program service, that provides consultation and advice to the DHN Chief, Clinical Operations on Behavioral Health operational issues. Perform fiscal, program, and economic management analysis expertise in evaluating Behavioral Health operational readiness and support systems.

Performs Other Duties as Assigned