Medical Director

Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is seeking a full time Medical Director. This individual provides oversight to the Medical Management Services Department ensuring safe quality medical and psychiatric practice(s).  Establishes and maintains effective medical staff/services to meet the needs of the department and the agency.  Engages in direct client service with a focus on research based, best practices and exceptional customer service.  Provides clinical/psychiatric consultation to programs across the agency at large and is appropriately engaged with executive leadership and in the community with partners/stakeholders as needed.  Recommends expansion, growth and program development opportunities involving new or existing services and markets.  Monitors the evolving mental health delivery and reimbursement system (s) and makes needed changes and recommendations to positively position the organization in the market. Ensures all medical management services (including pharmacological and medication services) meet all accreditation and certification standards.

This position reports to the President & CEO and is a member of the senior leadership team.  

Minimum Education, Experience and Other Skill Requirements:

Physician licensed as a Doctor of Medicine in the State of Ohio.  Must be board-certified (ABPN) in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; have experience in managing clinicians/physicians, working in/with managed care and a background in quality improvement.  DEA license required.  Additional certifications preferred, such as current CPR. 

Must possess minimum technical/computer skills including familiarity with Microsoft Windows and ability to use standard Microsoft Office applications.  Must have experience using and navigating an electronic medical record and performing telehealth services.

 Desired Job Skills

• Strong service philosophy 
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong management skills, as well as research and writing skills.  
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.  
• Excellent critical thinking, deductive reasoning and decision making skills
• Superior patient/customer service

Superior diagnostic skills, ability to differentiate diagnoses and successfully manage applicable medications and treatments.

What We Offer

Best Point provides the best network of community- based and evidence-based services to strengthen individuals and families with the necessary tools and make them feel cared
 for, valued, and safe.  We have over 600 highly trained staff and serve over 18,000 individuals in Southwest Ohio.  

       -Generous benefit and compensation package including medical, dental, vision, PTO, 403b with agency match, malpractice and liability insurance, etc.   

Our Culture:

Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is Greater Cincinnati’s most prolific non-profit specializing in education, behavioral and therapeutic health services and autism services for vulnerable, at-risk youth, their families, and caregivers.

Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is proud to embrace our ideals of an equal opportunity workplace by actions as well as our words. We lead our community with respect and tolerance, internally and externally, and we expect our employees to embrace this ideal and express it in their day-to-day interactions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against, based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.