The setting
is a marketplace and software platform that connects patients, health insurers and independent providers of mental health care across the United States. is the software therapists and psychiatric prescribers use to accept insurance and run their practice.
The annual review needs to surface urgent risk without turning every documentation gap into an investigation.
Patient protection calls for fast escalation, while provider trust depends on proportionate and explainable review.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I got a safety follow-up from one note, and now I’m wondering what I was supposed to have caught.”
Kalisa Beyene · Independent Licensed Therapist · a character in this brief
A solo clinician whose progress notes enter the first annual review cohort.
What is at stake
Similar note findings are reaching providers through different pathways, including urgent follow-up and routine coaching. You have to weigh early safety intervention against a review process clinicians can understand and trust.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- early safety escalation vs proportionate provider response
- clinician judgment vs repeatable review rules
- AI-assisted screening vs verified clinical findings
- pilot speed vs defensible oversight
Why Headway
The annual note-review program reaches a nationwide network of independent behavioral health providers whose documentation guides ongoing outpatient care.
Written with these in mind
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Where the organization context comes fromThe postings this brief was written from, and the reporting read before it.
The organization context comes from public information. The situation and characters are written for the brief.
Job postings it was written from
Public descriptions of the work at Headway. They are listed as sources, not as openings. The lines under a posting are its own words, where it meets this brief.
- Principal, Safety and Risk Management (opens in a new tab)
- Serve as the trusted responder for high-risk clinical events needing immediate attention (e.g., an impaired provider actively seeing patients, adverse patient behavior), providing timely, compassionate, evidence-informed guidance and support to providers and internal teams to ensure proper resolution.
- You will set the standards for the program, including harm severity and care attribution coding, investigation processes, and the escalation paths that get a clinical question to a clinician, an operational question to operations, and a legal question to counsel.
- Clinical Evaluator, AI Products (Contract) · no longer posted
- Review output from AI tools across Headway's patient and provider products for clinical accuracy, safety, and appropriateness.
- Headway is building AI powered tools for both patients and providers, and we are dedicated to ensuring that clinical experts are included throughout the process.
- Therapist Clinical Quality Peer Educator (Contract) · no longer posted
- Review clinical documentation across note types - initial assessments (90791) and progress notes - to identify gaps that fall below industry standards for high-quality, safe patient care.
- Some peer educators may also provide asynchronous and live 1:1 remediation support to providers falling below established standards of care, using education-forward communication that ties documentation expectations to patient safety and quality standards.
- Senior Medical Coding Specialist · no longer posted
- Contribute to provider education efforts, including drafting content, identifying documentation gaps, and advising on clinical documentation standards
- Have the ability to balance supportive coaching and enforcing provider policies regarding payer standards and compliance regulations.
- Associate Medical Director, Patient Safety · no longer posted
- Respond to High-Risk Clinical Events: Act as a trusted responder for complex and urgent patient safety concerns, providing real-time guidance to providers and internal teams to ensure safe and timely resolution.
- Educate and Support Providers: Coach and train providers on risk safeguards, documentation best practices, and ethical care delivery to strengthen Headway’s provider network and promote clinical confidence.
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.
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