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 same safety concern is producing different documentation findings.
Consistent clinical oversight protects patients, while overly rigid review guidance can misread legitimate clinical judgment.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I changed my note after the first review, then the next one said I still missed something.”
Ylva Lund · Independent Licensed Therapist · a character in this brief
Uses the clinical documentation experience and receives peer-education feedback after note review.
What is at stake
Peer educators are making different safety-documentation findings on similar progress notes. You have to weigh review consistency against preserving clinically valid judgment.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- review consistency vs clinical judgment
- automated flags vs verified findings
- audit defensibility vs provider trust
- clear standards vs documentation nuance
Why Headway
Progress-note reviews shape how a nationwide provider network documents safe outpatient behavioral health 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.
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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.
- Partner with the clinical safety team to lead the investigation process in the review of serious events, root cause and apparent cause analyses, defining the investigation standards and reference taxonomy the program uses at scale.
- Clinical Evaluator, AI Products (Contract) · no longer posted
- Use your clinical judgment where a rubric falls short, and document your reasoning.
- Work with the Clinical Product team to turn your clinical feedback into specific rubric or output changes.
- Therapist Clinical Quality Peer Educator (Contract) · no longer posted
- Complete additional quality-assessment work as our programs evolve, including calibration exercises and inter-rater reliability rounds.
- 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.
- Senior Medical Coding Specialist · no longer posted
- Contribute to provider education efforts, including drafting content, identifying documentation gaps, and advising on clinical documentation standards
- Deliver actionable feedback to providers through 1:1 remediation meetings, educating on coding and documentation guidelines (i.e., coding based on medical decision making (MDM) for outpatient Evaluation and Management services)
- 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.
- This is an ideal role for a licensed clinician with strong clinical judgment, patient safety expertise, and experience in high-acuity or crisis care—whether from a large health system or a fast-paced startup—who is eager to drive systems-level safety improvements in a mission-driven environment.
This is the setup. The work is inside.
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