The Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership (OPIP) supports a meaningful, long-term collaboration of stakeholders invested in child health care quality, with the common purpose of improving the health of all children and youth of Oregon. OPIP staff and projects are focusing on building health and improving outcomes for children and youth by:

• Collaborating in quality measurement and improvement activities
• Supporting evidence-guided quality activities
• Incorporating the patient and family voice into quality efforts; Informing policies that support optimal health and development.

OPIP is a soft funded program that receives funding through grants and contracts that support projects and consultation that aim to improve the health of children in Oregon. OPIP is currently leading a number of projects implementing novel improvements focused on young children and children with health complexity.

This position will play a critical role in OPIPs effort to improve the provision of behavioral health for children, with a heavy emphasis on behavioral health services for children birth to five. This position will support a Learning Collaborative that provides training, resources, and implementation supports to integrated behavioral health clinicians in primary care sites. These trainings will focus on assessments and brief interventions that can be done for children overall, but particularly for children in a primary care setting. Secondly, this position will support improvement efforts and facilitation of health systems on how to understand their current specialty behavioral health provider network, how to summarize the network of services, and then how to improve and expand their behavioral health network. Lastly, this position will support OPIPs effort to develop metric and policy recommendations meant to enhance the breadth and depth of behavioral health services provided to children.

This position is under the supervision of the Director of the Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership (OPIP). The position will require some travel across the state and in the regions that OPIP leads efforts.

• Masters degree in social work or fields related to behavioral health for children and 3 years of relevant experience defined below OR related Bachelors degree and 5 years of relevant experience defined below.
• Experience with behavioral health for children.
• Experience with improvement efforts focused on behavioral health.
• Research experience specific to pediatric population-based improvement efforts.
• Outstanding conceptual and interpersonal skills and ability to write and communicate effectively to both scientific/technical audiences, as well as
• to lay audiences and consumers of health care.
• Excellent management, interpersonal and administrative skills for assisting in the day-to-day operation of complex and multiple projects.
• Excellent ability to manage a multi-factorial job.
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills.
• Knowledge of behavioral health.
• Quality improvement experience.
• Successful in ensuring PI input and approval of all aspects of the day-to-day operation of projects that impact research quality and/or the timely completion of work.

• Social work experience with children.
• Quality improvement training.
• Child health services research.
• Care coordination methods.
• Experience with dyadic approaches to care for children and their parents.
• Experience addressing system-level factors associated with barriers to provision of behavioral health services.
• Passion and commitment to addressing HOW to integrate physical and behavioral health care.
• Passion and commitment to addressing social determinants of health in a pediatric population through addressing parental and community factors.
• Ability to handle a dynamic environment and politics in local systems.
• Knowledge about behavioral health in Oregon.

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