VP of Mental Health Services

Meet Lasting Change

Lasting Change, Inc. (LCI), incorporated in 2016, is a non-profit, faith-based organization. It functions as a supporting organization and parent company for a family of empowered non-profits (the oldest of which was founded in 1968), providing them with various administrative and management services. The combined efforts of LCI and its supported organizations aim to help individuals succeed, families thrive, and communities prosper.

About the VP of Mental Health Services

The VP of Mental Health Services will provide strategic leadership and oversight for all Lasting Change Inc. (LCI) organizations to ensure the delivery of quality mental healthcare, compliance, and operational excellence. Full support of and conformance to LCI’s Tenets of Culture is necessary for success in this role.

The VP of Mental Health Services’ responsibilities include :

• Direct behavioral health clinical services for all LCI organizations, including staffing, training, tuition, and intern programs. LCI employs over 525 people serving more than 12,000 clients per year.
• Define quality assurance measures for all programs.
• Manage clinical leadership staff and evaluate employee performance.
• Drive clinical activities with division, clinical, and functional leaders.
• Work with division and clinical leaders to market services for growth opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with DCS, JCAHO, and other relevant organizations.
• Define training initiatives, including continuing education requirements for all clinical staff, and coordinate the delivery of training programs with HR and Learning and Development.
• Ensure clinical staff secures and maintains appropriate licensure.
• Organize and lead routine staff meetings with clinical leadership.
• Define, analyze, and evaluate team goals, clinical competencies, and quality assurance for trends and continual improvement.
• Support quality clinical training and development utilizing evidence-based practices and growing comprehensive services.
• Research program needs within Indiana and beyond to determine new program needs, including, but not limited to, SUD and domestic violence programming, assessment needs, and new EBPs to meet the needs of LCI’s clients.
• Work with the LCI team to create a career path for all clinical staff across our family of organizations.

What you bring

The following describes many of the characteristics of the ideal candidate for the VP of Mental Health Services :

Education and experience

Personal Characteristics and Qualifications

Essential Functions

The physical and mental requirements described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

Travel

Travel may be required occasionally to subsidiary sites and training opportunities.