HOSPITAL CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Position Overview

The Division of Mental Health is seeking to hire an energetic, self-motivated professional to fill the Hospital Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Joliet Inpatient Treatment Center (JITC) located in Joliet, Illinois. This position will provide leadership and oversight of the services provided at the facility. The incumbent will direct, review and enforce standards of care and treatment for patients receiving Mental Health services. Provides input to Fiscal Management staff on matters involving the development and management of the Mental Health part of the annual budget.

Essential Functions

• Serves as the Hospital Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Joliet Inpatient Treatment Center (JITC) Mental Health (MH) units.
• Directs, reviews, and enforces standards of care and treatment for patients receiving Mental Health services at JITC.
• Provides input to Fiscal Management staff on matters involving the development and management of the MH part of the annual budget.
• Serves as primary authority for the MH units.
• Serves as full-line supervisor.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a Master’s Degree in a health or human services related field.
• Requires four (4) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in the administration of a social services department, organization, facility, or hospital.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five (5) years of professional experience organizing, administering and evaluating ongoing services in a multi-disciplinary operation.
• Five (5) years of professional experience interacting with and communicating in oral and written form with internal and external stakeholders.
• Three (3) years of professional supervisory experience, assigning work, providing guidance to subordinates, recommending counseling and/or discipline following collective bargaining agreements, training staff, preparing and signing performance evaluations and approving time off.
• Three (3) years of professional experience developing and interpreting policies and procedures for a public or private organization.
• Two (2) years of professional experience working with Federal and State standards and regulations relative to in-patient care and treatment programs.
• Two (2) years of professional experience developing strategic plans, long and short-term goals for residential treatment program.

Conditions of Employment

• Requires the ability to serve on-call after business hours, weekends on holidays on a rotation basis.
• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
• Requires ability to pass the IDOC background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen. On January 1, 2020, the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act made it legal for residents over the age of 21 to produce, consume and sell cannabis in Illinois. Please note that although the law has changed, the Department will continue to enforce the Department’s zero tolerance Drug Testing policy. The use of unauthorized drugs, including cannabis, by an employee, regardless of the position held is prohibited.

*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.