Executive Job Description | Institute for Community Living, Inc.
. . . a rehabilitation and support company
Senior Vice President, Mental Health Services
Job Description
Program: Executive Management
Reports to: Associate Executive Vice President/Chief Program Officer
Educational Requirements:
A Masters or Doctoral Degree in a mental health field to include: Psychiatric Nursing, Social Work, and/or Psychology with specific training and background in (1) program evaluation; (2) program supervision; and (3) program development and implementation with disabled populations and applicable New York State licensure a must.
General Requirements:
Ten or more years of clinical and progressively more responsible administrative experience within health care and/or health related fields at a VP level. This experience should be at the level of ongoing program administration and supervision with emphasis upon rehabilitation programming.
Description:
The Senior Vice President, Mental Health services provides overall supervision to all mental health client-related programs and operations.
Duties/Responsibilities:
Management Staffing and Supervision
• Recruit, hire and retain management personnel at the Vice President level and below who provide direction to Mental Health and Homeless Services programs.
• Participate in the interview and approve the hiring process for program managers, etc. with input of other mid-management supervisory personnel.
Provide program oversight and supervision to all Mental Health program operations.
• Develop an organizational structure of reporting relationships between program directors and senior Management which ensures that at each level adequate program supervision is being received on a routine basis and there is complete compliance with regulatory standards and requirements within the respective program.
• Interface with the Senior Vice President, Quality Management in order to ensure the development, implementation and monitoring of program quality assurance standards that are in compliance with regulatory requirements. This would include participation in utilization review and incident review as well as conducting inquiries into questions with respect to utilization and incident review.
• Assess the training needs of operational programs and coordinate appropriate training with the Training Department of Quality Management in order to meet those needs through internal as well as external resources.
• Monitor and supervise programmatic budget compliance and revenue/census management issues ensuring maximum revenue potential and efficient utilization.
Provide strategic planning and development for ongoing programs and new programs.
• Assess the residential, vocational and rehabilitative needs of clients within ICL programs and evaluate program functioning relative to those needs. Make modifications of program functioning as necessary in order to meet assessed needs.
• Ensure special issues and/or populations which should be areas of focus to include the development of a formalized supported work program, development of programming for MICA clients and the development of programming to facilitate client transitions to the most independent level of residential options available are being addressed programmatically.
• Ensure maximization of census by coordinating outreach efforts of various programs to psychiatric facilities, health and hospital corporation facilities and other referral sources.
• Monitor, review and negotiate apartment leases in conjunction with the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer.
Development of New Program Initiative
• Identify service gaps and plan programs and service initiatives to address these areas presenting proposals to various funding sources.
• Function as a liaison through New York State Office of Mental Health, the New York City Department of Mental Health, the New York City Department of Homeless Services, and other regulatory agencies with respect to ongoing operations and rehabilitative services.
• Plan and supervise the submission of grants to finding services consistent with programmatic needs.
Executive Management Activities
• Represent ICL MH Rehabilitation & Support at all inter-agency and public levels (City, State and Federal)
• Attend, coordinate and provide executive management linkage to the Community Advisory Board with respect to its various activities
• Delegate responsibility for attending provider agency meetings and community organization meetings as appropriate.
• Function as a liaison to the media with respect to ICL programming operations.
• Participate in annual budgetary planning meetings as well as monthly agency-wide budget reviews.
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