Compliance Specialist
About Us:
Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us.While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages.
Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love—and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.
Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.®
Responsibilities:
The Compliance Specialist coordinates compliance initiatives involving all aspects of the company including care and treatment services, health and safety, regulatory issues, and quality of care. The Compliance Specialist provides support to the Compliance Department and guidance and expertise to operations related to compliance with licensing regulations and policies for their designated region and Joint Commission standards.
Essential Duties:
- Upholds responsibilities in accordance with state licensing regulations and Joint Commission Standards, procedures and/or applicable laws, and ethics.
- Collect and trend incident reports and quality
- Conducts root cause analyses and participates in internal
- Collaborates in the preparation, execution, and monitoring plan of any corrective action plans and service development plans.
- Maintain oversight of facility compliance
- Complete regular audits of clinical records and make recommendations for
- Coordinate audits of other areas as identified by the Manager, Compliance and
- Identify areas of improvement in documentation, systems, and programming as they relate to regulatory standards.
- Stay abreast of regulatory updates and provide education to local
- Identify needs for trainings
- Facilitate trainings on policies and
- Define trends, collect data, generate needed spreadsheets to track
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, in applicable field, or the equivalent experience in risk management, quality assurance, compliance, and/or healthcare licensing and schooling to equal a four-year degree
- Three (3) years of experience in healthcare required
- Experience in behavioral healthcare
- Two years of Newport Healthcare experience
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint required
Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.
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