To be successful leading Integral Care, the “Ideal” candidate should:

• Be an experienced leader who is driven by both personal and organizational values reflecting a passion for meeting the needs of clients served by community mental health and developmental/intellectual disabilities services, as well as the needs of the community. For Boards and employees, it all begins with demonstrating servant leadership skills to meet the needs of a dramatically underserved and disadvantaged population.
• Demonstrate the highest level of integrity and have a history of building trusting relationships – internally with the Board and staff, externally with communities, strategic partners, and funders.
• Provide personal leadership within the organization including the development of leaders/managers at all levels.
• Be a visionary who can look over the horizon and guide an organization, staff, and communities to achieve their potential.
• Be a results-driven leader who has experience building and nurturing collaborative relationships with broad stakeholder groups – board, staff, consumers and families, communities, and a wide range of private and public partners – to shape a future of integrated and innovative systems of care.
• Have demonstrated success leading large, complex behavioral health and human service systems that have regional reach and impact.
• Be an innovator who fosters and supports a culture of creativity and risk-taking without sacrificing quality of services or financial stability.
• Have demonstrated business acumen in today’s evolving healthcare environment while achieving both clinical and operational excellence in an organization with strong financial stability.
• Have developed a wide range of relationships to improve/expand services, reduce/contain costs, solve community problems and secure an organization’s future through contracts, partnerships, collaborations, mergers and/or acquisitions.
• Have exceptional political savvy and communication skills and a track record of building and maintaining close partnerships with appointed and elected officials.
• Have a successful track record leading transformative change and strategic initiatives.
• Be tech savvy and demonstrate data-driven decision-making including the use of data analytics in the management of organizations.
• Be an authentic person with well-developed emotional intelligence – a pragmatic problem-solver who engages staff and stakeholders to be active participants in any solution.
• Have a philosophy of shared leadership and collaboration and have a demonstrated commitment to, and experience, promoting an environment of inclusion, equity, and diversity.
• Preferably hold a graduate degree in Behavioral Health, Business, Healthcare or Public Administration or a related field. Physician and PhD healthcare executives are encouraged, as are professionals who hold both graduate administrative and clinical degrees.
• Have extensive knowledge and background in community mental health, behavioral health, substance use disorder, intellectual/developmental disabilities and allied human services coupled with progressive leadership and proven executive experience.

Integral Care is a local public agency charged with the planning and delivery of behavioral health and intellectual / developmental disabilities services in Travis County, Texas. Created as the Austin-Travis County Mental Health Mental Retardation Center in 1967, Integral Care completed a name change and initiated a new branding strategy in 2015. Home-based in Austin, Texas, Integral Care serves all of Travis County, Texas. Integral Care serves almost 27,600 adults and children through its primary service corporation. Enterprise-wide revenues for FY24 will total about $131.5M+.

Known for its leadership in central Texas’ community mental health system since its founding, Integral Care is committed to developing innovative solutions in response to rapidly changing individual and community needs. In its work, Integral Care’s greatest asset is its engaged and dedicated professional workforce of about 900 full and part-time clinical and administrative staff. Balancing the challenges of serving a large urban population while attending to the unique needs of its growing rural communities across the County has required Integral Care to adapt and change, using emerging and clinical best practices, community collaborations, technology and management expertise to their maximum advantage.

Integral Care is governed by a voluntary citizen Board of Trustees with members appointed by the City of Austin, Travis County and Central Health, the Travis County healthcare district. The Board represents diverse personal and professional interests from across the county. The Board is focused on selecting a new Chief Executive Officer to secure Integral Care’s future and lead it to new heights as a premier behavioral health and IDD services provider.

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