Compliance Director

Job Description:

The Compliance Director will serve the dual role of providing legal counsel to the compliance team and their efforts and supervising others on the team. This role will independently address compliance inquiries, managing internal investigations, drafting responses to agency requests, leading individual compliance projects while ensuring compliance, and detect wrongdoing at all levels. Duties also include but are not limited to; undertaking and performing compliance auditing and monitoring program for the company, investigation of compliance matters; fostering a culture of compliance, encouraging reporting of any issues or violations of policy; overseeing timely resolution of relevant issues; auditing and reporting; and serving as the contact for internal and external inquiries from various organizations including government agencies. Analyze issues and identify opportunities for the organization.
 

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Compliance Director to lead and manage pieces of our organization's compliance, privacy, and risk management functions. This role requires a deep understanding of healthcare regulations, privacy laws, and risk management practices. The successful candidate will serve as a strategic advisor, ensuring adherence to federal, state, and local laws, fostering a culture of compliance, and contributing to institutional policy development and decision-making.

Exciting opportunity for someone wanting to help continue to build out a compliance program for a large multistate organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES
 

Corporate Compliance and Privacy

• Develop, implement, and oversee a comprehensive compliance program to meet federal, state, and local regulations
• Act as a trusted resource for compliance education, delivering training programs to staff, faculty, and leadership
• Monitor emerging regulatory requirements and enforcement trends, advising leadership on risks and opportunities
• Serve as Associate Privacy Officer, ensuring compliance with HIPAA, Part 2 Privacy, and other data/state sensitive health privacy laws
• Oversee privacy breach responses, investigations, and reporting requirements, while promoting best practices in privacy across clinical, research, and clinical operations
   

Regulatory Counsel

• Perform and advise on company team members on compliance with federal and state laws as well as presenting means to navigate these regulations
• Regulatory research, regulatory legal counsel, and create enterprise notices of areas of governmental focus.

Compliance Program Auditing and Monitoring

• Develop LifeStance auditing and monitoring work plans to ensure proactive efforts to detect and prevent compliance concerns and regulatory violations.
• Design project plans, own, lead and delegate/oversee projects, or portions, to completion or until risk is mitigated.
• Fosters a company-wide commitment to the compliance program by collaborating with cross functional leadership to investigate and review/revise practices as part of the company’s auditing and monitoring program.

Enterprise Risk Management

• Lead the enterprise risk management program to identify, assess, and mitigate significant organizational risks
• Manage the corporate insurance program to safeguard institutional assets
   

Leadership and Collaboration

• Manage compliance team members to drive the company’s compliance efforts and create a collaborative and highly effective team.
• Lead compliance department meetings, fostering transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor and manage a high-performing compliance team, as well as external legal counsel engagements
• Serve as a regulatory and strategic advisor to leadership, contributing to decision-making and policy development
• Foster a culture of compliance awareness and accountability organization-wide
• Assist with project management, such as centralization of enterprise policies and procedures

 Compliance reports and investigations

• Support and respond to internal/external inquiries, subpoenas, and investigations.
• Oversees compliance hotline reports, questions, inquiries, privacy incident investigations, and work with center/regional management to develop correction action plans if appropriate. Addresses more complex and high-risk occurrences directly.

Compliance Program Development

• Develop, implement, monitor, and train of LifeStance policies and procedures as it relates to compliance/HIPAA.
• Manage compliance processes such as risk assessments, arrangements review, compliance interviews, and exit interviews.
• Coordinate directly and through Compliance Manager with company departments to maintain a culture of compliance.
• Ensure content of all compliance forms are revised and updated as required.
• Coordinate new corporate policy, procedure, revision to an existing policy or work with the relevant teams to revise or create the policy or procedure.
• Inform Company Executives with timely and significant information on compliance program status and objectives.
• Oversee the monitoring and implementation of the Code of Ethics and Business Standards at the practice level as it relates to policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Coordinate with Human Resources to ensure new hire and yearly compliance training for all employees has been completed or escalated.
• Conduct training and provide other educational tools to ensure regulatory compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Medical Records – Privacy Program

• Oversee the Medical Records functions to build inherent compliance in day-to-day practices, applied by in-house employees and the outside vendor.

Compensation: $170,000.00 – 215,000.00/annually, with additional annual bonus potential.