Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health Opportunity Awaits You – VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System, Cleveland, Ohio

The Cleveland VA is seeking an outstanding leader.

The prestigious VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System nestled in Cleveland, Ohio has an opening for an Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health. This 5-star medical center is a leading healthcare system, innovative care, and teaching facility with healthcare services at 20 locations in northeast Ohio. 

The opportunity allows you to lead, manage, direct, and/or oversee the overall mental health clinical and administrative operations and resource allocation currently structured around a program management model and with a clinical emphasis on the Recovery model. The Associate Chief of Staff - Mental Health is the direct administrative supervisor, or matrixed line supervisor, of the mental health professional discipline Service Chiefs (e.g., Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work). This responsibility includes system operations of inpatient acute care, emergency crisis care, outpatient clinics, community-based programs, patient/customer satisfaction, mental health services in psychiatry, psychology, nursing, and social work, and successful attainment of performance measures and efficient and effective service delivery and resource management.

• The Cleveland VA has a primary academic affiliation with Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, and several other agreements with Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth.
• Broad and overall responsibility for all professional, management, and administrative aspects of mental health operations, including overall supervisor and resource management to ensure efficiency and timely access for Veterans to high-quality, well-coordinated mental health care.
• Ensure policies or issues have been fully coordinated, vetted, and staffed; advise leadership on implications, key issues, and relationships to internal and external stakeholders in recommending courses of action.
• Serve as direct administrative supervisor, or matrixed second line supervisor, for Chiefs of mental health professional disciplines, with consequent matrixed authority over all staff supporting mental health operations.
• Act as a professional and administrative consultant on behavioral health issues that span Primary Care, Specialty Mental Health Care, Extended Care, Medical/Surgical Services, and Rehabilitation Services.

Ideal Candidate: Should have at least five leadership experience; have some research experience; teaching; residency program experience; interaction with local programs; VA or DoD experience (not an absolute). 

Interested: Please provide your resume and cover letter to terrance.anderson@va.gov

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards.

Recruitment/Relocation Incentives are Offered

Paid Time Off:

• 26 Days paid annual (vacation/personal) leave
• 13 Days paid sick leave each year with no limit on accumulation
• 11 paid Federal holidays per year
• 5 Days paid absence to attend approved CME courses

Insurance:

• Health Insurance: VA employees have an outstanding number of health insurance plans from which to choose (premiums are partially paid by VA) Lifetime Healthcare Insurance options available
• Dental & Vision: Our insurance options also include exceptional vision and dental plans (premiums are partially paid by VA)
• VA employees have the option to use Flexible Spending Accounts, which allow you to use tax-free dollars to pay for medical, dental, and vision care expenses that are not reimbursed by your health insurance plan
• Term life insurance, family, and additional coverage options are available with the cost shared by the Federal Government
• Long-term care insurance is available as an option

Federal Retirement Plan:

• VA employees are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). FERS is a three-tiered retirement plan composed of 1) Social Security benefits, 2) FERS-RAE basic benefits (pension), and 3) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is a 401K-type plan
• How is the pension funded? VA employees automatically contribute 4.4% of their salary each pay period and the VA contributes 12.2% of the employee’s salary each pay period for a total annual contribution percentage equal to 16.6% of the employee’s salary
• Similar to the 401(k) savings plans widely available in the private sector, the TSP allows employees to tax defer a portion of their income each year, subject to the requirements of the Internal Revenue Service. For calendar year 2020, employees under the age of 50 may contribute up to $19,500, while those over age 50 are eligible to make catch-up contributions that allow them to defer up to $25,500.
• The Federal Government also provides an automatic basic contribution (1% of salary) and up to 4% of salary in matching contributions, depending on the amount of the employee contribution
• For retired military personnel, these benefits are in addition to full monthly retirement pay or pension
• In addition to FERS, VA provides health care insurance coverage for retired personnel
• Disability Retirement
• Employees are vested in a federal pension after only 5 years service

Focusing on treating the whole Veteran through health promotion and disease prevention, VA provides comprehensive, seamless health care and social services for 112,589 Veterans across Northeast Ohio. 

With 18 locations of care, including 13 outpatient clinics, two community resource and referral centers, a psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery center, a chronic dialysis center and an outpatient surgery center, VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System’s quality services are easily accessible to Veterans in 24 counties. 

VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System contributes to the future of medicine through education, training, and research programs.  We are committed to delivering the highest quality and safest health care to our nation’s Veterans.

VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is part of Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 (VISN 10), which includes 10 VA Healthcare Systems, the independent Columbus, Ohio Ambulatory Care clinic and a network of 63 VA Outpatient Clinics that provides care to more than 685,000 Veterans throughout the lower peninsula of Michigan, Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Indiana.

National and Regional Referral Services:
• Cochlear Implants
• Cardiac Surgery
• Invasive Cardiology
• Polytrauma Care
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Teleretinal Imaging
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Gambling Disorder Treatment
• Substance Abuse
• Women’s Military Sexual Trauma
• Blind Rehabilitation
• Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center
• Comprehensive Reference Clinical Laboratory Services
• Left Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Destination Implantation

Special Programs:
• Open Heart Surgery
• Care of the Seriously Mentally Ill
• Geriatric Research Education and Care Center
• Substance Abuse Care
• Women's Health Programs
• Hemodialysis
• Center for Stress Recovery
• HIV/AIDS Care
• Nuclear Medicine
• Pathology Reference Laboratory
• Sleep Disorder Program
• Functional Electrical Stimulation
• Advanced Platform Technology

Affiliations
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry
Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

More than 2,000 students, trainees, residents, and fellows are trained at the medical center each year, encompassing 26 disciplines and involving more than 200 affiliations with schools, colleges, and universities.