Clinical Risk Manager

1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but most providers don't accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway’s mission is to fix this by building a new mental healthcare system everyone can access. We started by solving the biggest barrier to care: insurance. The admin work - credentialing, claims, payment reconciliation - is a nightmare. We've automated that. But we're going further. Over 75,000 providers across all 50 states run their practice on our software, serving over 1 million patients. We are building the best tools for therapists to run their entire practice, reimagining the experience of finding a therapist, and investing in the platform foundations to enable this at scale. We aren't just a billing layer; we are becoming the platform where care actually happens. We're a Series D company with $325M+ in funding (a16z, Accel, Spark Capital, etc.), looking for exceptional people to help us achieve this mission. We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better.

We’re seeking a Clinical Risk Manager to join Headway’s Clinical Strategy team and run the clinical risk program for our nationwide behavioral health provider network. Behavioral health carries a specific risk profile, including suicide and self-harm risks, medication and controlled substance safety, telehealth crisis management, and handoffs to emergency or higher levels of care. Headway has built the infrastructure to capture and learn from these events, and to continuously improve our systems of care. In this role, you will own reported safety events end to end, from intake and triage through investigation, systematic event analysis, corrective action, and verified closure, and you will translate learning from those events into systems improvements and leadership reporting. You will present and review findings with our internal governance and peer-led committees. This role additionally is responsible for studying and amplifying our culture of safety. Reporting to the Senior Medical Director for Quality, Patient Safety, and Clinical Governance, you’ll also collaborate cross-functionally with clinical operations, legal, compliance, product, and data teams. This is an ideal role for a risk management professional with direct experience investigating and managing adverse events, who has a behavioral healthcare background. The ideal candidate will have experience working in a high-acuity, fast-paced environment, whether in a health system or a digital-health startup, and will have a demonstrated record of building and scaling national programs. You will: Own the Safety Event Front Door: Run intake, triage, and case management for reported safety events, holding response timeframes and case status discipline through to closure, and building the reporting culture that surfaces events in the first place. Lead Investigations: Conduct reviews of serious events, code contributing factors, and code harm severity and care attribution to reference taxonomy, escalating to and working closely with Headway’s clinical leadership when necessary. Drive Corrective Action to Closure, and Learnings to Systems Improvement: Convert findings into corrective and preventive actions with named owners and due dates, and track every action to verified closure. Extract learning from events and trends, and translate these into system improvements to prevent future harm. Own the Clinical Risk Dashboard: Use data to drive risk analysis and mitigation efforts, maintain the reference taxonomy and the crosswalks that make separate reporting pathways comparable, and analyze trends in reported events and contributing factors. Report to Leadership and the Board: Produce the metrics, trend analysis, and case narrative for the quarterly Quality and Patient Safety Report, and support the Patient Safety Review Committee. Build the Policy and