WHO ARE WE?:
Jewish Family Service of Cincinnati (JFS) is committed to hiring incredible people to do remarkable work. Our Mission: JFS strengthens lives and enhances our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Our Vision: Guided by Jewish values, we strive for a community where everyone lives with dignity, security, and hope.
If you are wondering whether you have to be Jewish to work here, the answer is absolutely not! Jewish Family Service values a diverse workforce. We only care about your abilities, knowledge, competencies, and level of compassion.
JFS serves all individuals, and provides equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, hair type, or any other protected status covered by federal, state, or local law.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Vice President of Counseling will lead a counseling department that includes specialized teams offering youth mental health services, family counseling and geriatric mental health care. Our agency services people regardless of background and includes a diverse workforce that enhances our culture and cultural competency.
The counseling department serves people ages five and older and has some specialized practices such addressing youth mental health and the unique needs of older adults. In addition to providing staff supervision, the vice president will assist the agency with increasing its knowledge of Medicaid billing and adapting to CARF standards as the organization completes its pivot from delivering fully subsidized care to billing insurance carriers. The V.P. will assist with setting and achieving billing and productivity goals for the department.
The role also includes building and maintaining a positive culture that supports strong employee engagement and retention of top talent as well as building relationships with outside partners. JFS is committed to investing in its positive culture and being a great place to work and seeks a leader who will support this ongoing effort.
MORE ABOUT THE ROLE:
- 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.
CANDIDATES SHOULD HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- LISW-S licensure
- 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.
BENEFITS WE OFFER:
Jewish Family Service of Cincinnati offers a professional, friendly, and fun work environment. We also offer some compelling benefits*:
- Paid holidays: 7 national holidays, plus as many as 13 Jewish holidays every year
- Professional development: free CEUs and free group supervision (2 hours per week for LSWs working toward LISW, maximum of 6 supervisors in a group)
- Benefits: Health, Dental, and Life insurance—plus Long Term Disability coverage
- 401k, Health Savings Account or Flex Spending Account
- Generous vacation and sick time
- Discount on individual membership at the Mayerson JCC
- Flexible work schedule
- Free onsite parking
*Some benefits require a minimum number of work hours per week or eligibility.
