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Lifepoint Health
Highland Hills, Ohio

Director, Clinical Operations - Behavioral Health

Mental Health TherapyIncludes weekendsFull-Time

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Job Description

  • Lifepoint Behavioral Health
  • Director of Clinical Operations – Behavioral Health
  • Facility Name: Highland Springs
  • Schedule: 5x8 | Days | Monday to Friday | 8am – 5pm | Weekends as needed

Your Experience Matters

Highland Springs Behavioral Health is part of Lifepoint Health [https://lifepointhealth.net/locations], a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being, so you can provide exceptional care to others.

As a Director of Clinical Operations – Behavioral Health joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier ®. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

How You’ll Contribute

As a Director of Clinical Operations – Behavioral Health, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for behavioral health treatment across inpatient and outpatient settings. You will ensure the delivery of exceptional clinical care while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

You will serve as a key member of the facility leadership team, driving clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, staff development, and patient-care initiatives.

What You’ll Do

  • Responsible for oversight of all clinical treatment programs of patients receiving treatment for psychiatric, and substance abuse issues in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
  • Assure that high-quality clinical care is provided and that clinical functions are integrated.
  • Supervise individual and group counseling and develop and implement a variety of therapeutic treatment modalities/processes.
  • Oversee discharge planning to ensure an optimal post-hospital transition.
  • Responsible for ensuring that clinical documentation is current and accurate and meets all regulatory and other standards.
  • Responsible for ensuring that company approved programs are implemented and being provided consistently.
  • Provide oversight to the therapist and provide feedback through the performance evaluation process and, if necessary, through counseling.
  • Ensure that all interventions (individual, group, and family therapy) are performed and documented according to professional clinical standards.
  • Actively participate in survey activities (TJC, Medicare, and licensing).
  • Coordinate performance improvement and completes monthly reporting.
  • Attend treatment team meetings on a regular basis.
  • Ensure that clarification of the therapeutic role and treatment plan with the patient and family is completed.
  • Actively participate in the complaint resolution process as needed.
  • Is responsible to collaborate with leadership team members related to hospital operations.

Why Join Us

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position

also offers:

  • Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
  • Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
  • Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
  • Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
  • Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What We’re Looking For

Applicants should have a Master’s Degree in Social Work. Additional requirements

include:

  • Previous experience in inpatient psychiatric healthcare required.
  • A current unencumbered clinical social work license (LCSW) is required.

EEOC Statement

“Lifepoint Behavioral Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifepoint Behavioral Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.”

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier.

Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities.

We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.

We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.

Key Responsibilities

The Director of Clinical Operations provides strategic and operational leadership for behavioral health treatment programs across inpatient and outpatient settings. They are responsible for ensuring high-quality clinical care, regulatory compliance, staff development, and the integration of therapeutic treatment modalities.

Requirements

Applicants must hold a Master's Degree in Social Work and possess a current unencumbered clinical social work license (LCSW). Previous experience in inpatient psychiatric healthcare is required for this position.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Strategic leadershipPsychiatric treatmentSubstance abuse treatmentTreatment team coordination

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Director, Clinical Operations - Behavioral Health at Lifepoint Health a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Mental Health Therapy healthcare professional listings evaluated on our platform.

Mental Health Therapy Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 16% are remote, 24% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 13.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Ohio is 92.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.3% of Ohio clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
19%
Loan repayment
8% this job
CME allowance
8%
Relocation assistance
4%

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Work-life snapshot

6.0/ 10
Listing-based score
  • Includes weekends

Living in Highland Hills

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$139k
Median resident rent
$847/mo
Residents’ average commute
19 min
State income tax
Up to 4%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Lifepoint Health

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201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage
Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance
Short- and long-term disability
Paid family leave and paid time off
Higher education and certification tuition assistance
Loan assistance
401(k) retirement package and company match
Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs