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Jewish Family Service of Cincinnati · 4 days ago

Vice President, Counseling

Cincinnati, OH

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$82K/yr - $105K/yr

5+ years exp

Jewish Family Service of Cincinnati (JFS) is dedicated to providing exceptional human services and enhancing the community. The Vice President of Counseling will lead a department focused on youth mental health and family counseling, ensuring high performance and compliance while fostering a positive workplace culture.

CharityFood and BeverageHealth CareNon Profit

Hiring Manager

Gretchen Cogan

Responsibilities

Supervise a department of approximately 12 mental health professionals, largely with social work licenses, providing coaching and mentorship in addition to ensuring high job performance and positive outcomes

Serve as the liaison to community partners in our youth mental health program. Build strong relationships with schools, summer camps and other programs where JFS youth mental health counselors are embedded, finding creative solutions to maintain the highest standards of client care and customer service to partners

Ensure the agency successfully bills qualified client services to the appropriate provider in partnership with the agency’s outside billing firm

Continue building the organization’s knowledge of Medicaid billing assisting with a cultural and operational shift to this new to JFS way of working. Surface operational gaps or needs when necessary and work collaboratively with other department heads to continue building infrastructure to support our new billing programs

Steward compliance with all social work licensure requirements, Medicaid, CARF, HIPAA and other applicable regulations

Support the grant writing team as they pursue grant funding for agency and specifically the counseling department. This work may include reviewing potential grant opportunities to determine whether they are a match for JFS’s work, participating in meetings with our grant writing firm, coaching the grant writers on messaging and sharing priority needs, providing data for grants or grant reports, and reviewing/editing applications and reports, so they can be submitted on deadline

Ensure that employees within the counseling department continue their strong track record of capturing data so we can report back to funders and donors as needed. Maintain our ability to leverage data to make strategic decisions for the agency and present outcomes for grant applications that require them

Serve on the agency’s leadership team—a strategy team setting priorities for our work and working collaboratively to address agencywide challenges

Participate in the Policy and Procedure committee and the Continuous Quality Improvement committee to ensure we are implementing best practices and maintain CARF compliance

Attend board meetings as needed (There are approx. 10 per year usually held on Thursday evenings)

Senior leaders at the VP level are expected to be on-site daily, however there is some flexibility for occasional remote work and flexing hours (starting early and ending early or leaving early and finishing work in the evenings, for example). These options are at the supervisor’s discretion

Qualification

LISW-S licensureMedicaid knowledgeCARF complianceGrant writing supportLeadership experienceOffice equipment operationCommunication skillsCollaboration skills

Required

LISW-S licensure required

Proven track record of successful stewardship of the activities above

Five years of experience leading a counseling department

Strong knowledge of Medicaid and CARF

Ability to successfully lead people, build a positive culture and work collaboratively with peers

Ability to communicate clearly and professionally through oral and written means

Ability to operate a variety of office equipment: voice mail, email, postage machine, copier, etc

Ability to travel to partner organizations and meet on-site at their locations, as well as shadowing staff as needed in client homes or at the location of embedded partners