About the role

  • Behavioral Health Data Analyst supporting clinical and operational data analysis to improve care quality. Building dashboards, performing data validation, and developing standardized reports in a high-security detention facility.

Responsibilities

  • Supports behavioral health program performance by collecting, validating, and analyzing clinical and operational data to improve safety, access, and quality of care in a high-security detention facility.
  • Build, maintain, and automate dashboards (e.g., suicide watch metrics, mental health referrals, psychotropic medication adherence, waiting times, critical incident trends).
  • Perform data validation and reconciliation across EHR, pharmacy, and scheduling systems; resolve discrepancies with clinical leadership.
  • Develop standardized reports for command staff, QA/QI committees, and accreditation audits (e.g., monthly KPIs, CQI measures).
  • Support case reviews and morbidity/mortality meetings with quantitative analysis and visualizations.
  • Maintain data dictionaries, codebooks, and SOPs for measurement methods and version control.
  • Ensure HIPAA/privacy compliance and secure handling of protected health information (PHI).
  • Train end users on report interpretation and data entry quality practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in public health, statistics, data science, psychology, or related field; Master’s preferred.
  • 2+ years of healthcare analytics or quality improvement experience; correctional/forensic setting preferred.
  • Proficiency with the Microsoft Suite and at least one analytics tool (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and SQL basics.
  • Understanding of behavioral health measures, screening tools, and levels of care.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain favorable background investigations.
  • Meet the requirements of the contract for all immunizations.
  • Must be at least 21 years of age.
  • Must be a US citizen or permanent resident, resided in the US for 3 years in the past 5 years.
  • Must complete all required training.
  • Experience with EHR reporting (e.g., eClinicalWorks) and incident management systems preferred.
  • Knowledge of accreditation/standards applicable to high-security detention health services preferred.
  • Bilingual preferred (English/Spanish).

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Behavioral Health Data Analyst

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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