Essential Safety Net Licensing Manager
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Essential Safety Net Licensing Manager
Salary
$71,544.00 - $93,024.00 Annually
Location
Denver, CO
Job Type
Full Time
Job Number
ILA 00430 8/26/2025
Department
Colorado Department of Human Services
Division
BHA -
Opening Date
08/26/2025
Closing Date
9/9/2025 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA
Determined by Position
Type of Announcement
This position is open only to Colorado state residents.
Primary Physical Work Address
REMOTE - Work from Home/Field-Based Position
FLSA Status
Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information
Stacy.chinea@state.co.us
How To Apply
Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.
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Department Information
This position is open to current Colorado residents only.
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Description of Job
Remote position. This is subject to change due to the BHA's business needs.
8-5 Monday through Friday
Please note: These working arrangements are subject to change.
This position conducts approval activity for community-based essential safety net providers. BHA is the lead authority state agency on behavioral health and treatment provisions for essential safety net providers. This position is responsible for ensuring compliance with 2 CCR 502-1 and Colorado Revised Statutes of their assigned caseload. This position will provide technical assistance and support to Safety Net providers, and applicants, and collaborate with other state agencies on essential safety net provisions. This position provides oversight and monitoring to the state's essential safety net providers to ensure regulatory compliance, quality service provision, health and safety, and service accessibility.
Primary Job Duties:
Licensing, Approval, Inspection, and Investigations of Safety Net Providers
This position provides licensing and/or designation for behavioral health agencies wishing to obtain BHA's approval of their safety net services for participation in the safety net program. It compares behavioral health rules, statutes governing behavioral health services, and BHA's policies and procedures to make determinations as to whether or not an agency should be approved for safety net services, licensed for substance use disorder services, or designated for mental health treatment. Collect, interpret, and report findings of audit processes to licensed or approved providers. This position is responsible for collecting the audit forms and findings of team members and interpreting results to communicate findings and any violations to the provider. Must ensure the accuracy of team members' documentation. Physically inspect the facility for health, safety, and program standards to 2 CCR 502-1 and Title 27 of Colorado Revised Statutes. This position also conducts provider site visits to determine contract or license/designation compliance using a standardized risk-based protocol to look for indicators of quality assurance activities and compliance with BHA rules. These site visits may be conducted together with other work units within BHA and may happen concurrently with the provision of population-based technical assistance. Fieldwork travel is required.
Oversight, Monitoring, and Compliance of Safety Net Provider Caseload
This position oversees a caseload of providers for monitoring, oversight, and compliance in accordance with rules. For the immediate period, this will includes providers licensed as Behavioral Health Entities or approved as safety net providers:
· Maintain routine review of complaints and critical incident reports for providers on caseload.
· Respond to public and stakeholder complaints, concerns, or reported regulatory negligence about providers.
· Respond to and coordinate technical assistance, training, or challenges identified by the monitoring review by the provider.
· Schedule routine visits of providers with a review of policy and procedure, clinical guidelines, clinical documentation, and regulatory requirements review
· Review quality data from providers and respond with training, technical assistance, or coaching as deemed appropriate.
· Coordinate with other agencies on payment incentives or withholds as determined by quality and compliance for future value-based payment structures for safety net designated providers.
· Provide routine updates on provider caseload to the Safety Net Associate Director and Director, Licensing and Designation.
· Provide aggregate summary data as requested to the BHA Advisory Council on provider grievances, quality data, or other items as appropriate.
Policy, Essential Safety Net Licensure & Designation Regulations
This position is a primary author of regulation, including licensure and designation requirements for Behavioral Health Safety Net, Substance Use, Controlled Substance, and Behavioral Health Entity providers. This includes corresponding standards of practice, and ongoing, related legislation:
· Coordinate with other relevant divisions within BHA to set policy, standards of practice, and licensure requirements for safety net providers.
· Coordinate and receive input from other state agencies on policy, standards of practice, and licensure requirements for safety net providers.
· Draft regulatory guidance.
· Coordinate stakeholder engagement.
· Draft responses to all written and oral stakeholder testimony.
· Present draft rule to the Colorado Department of Human Services Board.
· Works with the Policy, Strategy, and Communications group to maintain congruence in communication with CDHS/BHA, and consults with that group regarding information that could benefit the public through online or web-based communication and media messaging.
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
Minimum Qualifications
Experience Only:
Seven (7) years of relevant experience within behavioral healthcare.
OR
Education and Experience:
A combination of related education in and/or relevant experience within behavioral healthcare equal to seven (7) years.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in regulatory oversight, monitoring, and compliance for healthcare or behavioral health providers.
Experience with licensing, approval, inspection, or investigation activities for behavioral health care providers or similar entities.
Experience in policy or regulation development related to behavioral health licensure, designation, or standards of practice.
Experience in a leadership role
Conditions of Employment:
This position is delegated as a remote position. The employees must maintain a home office and workstation free of distraction.
internet, and possibly phone to complete required job duties or report to the office when needed.
Standard Background - Name check, TRAILS, CMS, and JBITS
Current/Valid and unrestricted US Driver's License
The position is to travel to meetings and/or conferences as needed.
Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application and provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination, or resignation in lieu of termination will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.
APPEAL RIGHTS:
If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.
An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgment of the department's action.
For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at (303) 866-3300; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.
A standard appeal form is available at:www.colorado.gov/spb. If you appeal, your appeal must be submitted in writing on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative, and received at the following address within 10 days of your receipt of notice or knowledge of the action: Colorado State Personnel Board/State Personnel Director, Attn: Appeals Processing, 1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80203. Fax: 303-866-5038. Phone: 303-866-3300. The ten-day deadline and these appeal procedures also apply to all charges of discrimination.
Supplemental Information
How to Apply (https://cdhs.colorado.gov/information-for-job-applicants#how-to-apply)
The Assessment Process
For additional recruiting questions, please contact Stacy.Chinea@state.co.us
About Us:
If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Human Services (https://www.colorado.gov/cdhs) (CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high quality human and health services that improve the safety, independence, and well-being of the people of Colorado. In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:
Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan www.copera.org plus 401(k) and 457 plans
Medical and dental health plans
Employer supplemented Health Savings Account
Paid life insurance
Short- and long-term disability coverage
11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave
BenefitHub state employee discount program
Employee Wellness program MotivateMe
Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more
Remote work arrangements for eligible positions
*Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more
information, go to https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/student-loan-forgiveness-programs .
Our Values:
We believe in a people-first approach: To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans.
Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.
We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.
Transparency matters: We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.
We are ethical: We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.
Collaboration helps us rise together: We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
ADAA Accommodations: CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAAA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at cdhs_ada@state.co.us or call 1-800-929-0791.
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