Associate Licensed Mental Health Therapist

Job Description

Job Description

WE ARE OPENING A 2ND LOCATION IN POST FALLS ID - ESTMATED TO PHYSICALLY OPEN IN MARCH 2025!!

options to start early virtually until the office physically opens)

Clinic Description

As an Associate Therapist at Ellie Mental Health, you'll share our vision for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care and thrive in an environment driven by our core values of authenticity, humor, compassion, creativity, acceptance, and determination. Ellie Mental Health was founded in 2015 by Erin Pash, LMFT and Kyle Keller, LICSW when they opened the first Ellie clinic in Minneapolis. Since then, the Ellie Fam has continued to grow with multiple clinics in Minnesota and a growing number of locally owned and operated franchises across the country. Ellie was proudly founded on the principle of destigmatizing mental health. The mental health industry is full of barriers, and weve made it our goal to fill the gap and find innovative ways to break down these barriers for the communities we serve.

Who is Ellie North Idaho?

Ellie Mental Health of North Idaho is a group of like minded mental health providers that are committed to serve our clients. We are structured to remove many of the daily obstacles that get in the way of providing world-class mental health services. The clinicians experience is our priority and we show this by offering excellent compensation, benefits, training, free CEUs, and therapist controlled scheduling. We know that clinicians do not always enjoy the administrative side of the work we do so we take care of a lot of that for our clinicians. We have centralized administrative, technology, referral and inquiry support, scheduling, client / therapist matching, billing and collections, and insurance contracting / credentialling. Ellie strives to lower the administrative aspects of providing care to the absolute minimum, so our practitioners have more time to focus on what they love - serving clients! We want our people to be happy because happy therapists do better work and provide better client care.

Who we are looking for : Associate Therapists!!!!

The perfect candidate will share our passion for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care in our local community and will thrive in a culture that emphasizes autonomy, flexibility, creativity, authenticity, humor, compassion, acceptance and determination (our core values). Opportunities for individual, family, and group therapy services as well as Telehealth. We love to have fun and help our community.

Responsibilities and Duties

• As an Associate Clinician you would be under direct clinical supervision. You will be provided a high level of training and 1 : 1 time to learn all industry wide best practices with clinical documentation (CDAs, treatment plans, progress notes, discharge summaries, etc.)
• Complete comprehensive diagnostic assessments and evaluate and provide mental health diagnosis within the first week of services, and update yearly. Create and implement a treatment plans 30 days after initiating treatment, and update every 90 days. Complete progress notes for every session according to company policy.
• Full-time clinicians schedule a minimum of 30 clients per week and are expected to execute a minimum of 25 sessions per week. Most schedule more, exceed the minimum, and make more money!
• Provide excellent customer service for clients, and be highly responsive to all communications.
• Collaborate with a dynamic team to further the mission of filling gaps in our community
• Utilize creativity in interventions to help clients achieve and exceed goals
• Coordinate services with case managers, families, work personnel, medical personnel, other Ellie staff, and school staff as indicated
• Attend and participate in all clinical staff meetings and trainings, and other fun stuff that we do
• Other stuff we probably forgot to add but just as meaningful and important to your role

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Candidates are required to have a masters degree (or very close to it) in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university and on track to obtain licensure in their designated field
• Candidates should minimally have Idaho state licensure(Intern, LPC, LAMFT, LMSW) and actively pursuing clinical licensure.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate and model stable, appropriate boundaries with clients
• Ability to complete and submit documentation of services and other documents in a timely manner
• Comfort and familiarity working with a diverse client base
• Proficient (or can be with a little training) in the use of Microsoft Office 365 and Electronic Health Record systems (Valant experience a plus!)
• Comfort with collecting the patient's financial responsibility at time of service and discussing billing issues with clients
• Comfort with be your client's primary form of contact for all needs. (our model does not have an office receptionist)
• Ability to pass a background check

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Preferred experience with completing CDAs, treatment plans and progress notes
• Preferred openness to a range of ages and types of clinical presentations, as it is hard to know your specialty starting out.
• Prefer that they are pursuing licensure in both Idaho and Washington.
• We prefer that candidates share our passion for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care in our local community and come with ideas of how to can improve access in our community
• We prefer that candidates see our core values of Autonomy, Flexibility, Creativity, Authenticity, Humor, Compassion, Acceptance and Determination, and they instantly feel that this is right place for them to be

What we have to offer :

All Ellie we believe that we must first take care of our therapists, nurture their growth, support their ideas, and provide them with the resources they need. We believe that in doing this we are caring for our clients. Happy and fulfilled therapist = exceptional client experience!

• Ellie Mental Health offers competitive pay with a unique Hybrid Pay Model option.
• Paid Time Off starting at 10 days of paid time off that is accrued throughout the year.
• Holiday Time off of 5 days that are determined by you. You declare what 5 holidays in the year are important to you and your family.
• Flex Time Off - with flexible scheduling you are in charge of YOUR schedule. If you need time to go to a doctors appointment you do not need to use PTO when you flex any potentially missed sessions or meetings to a different day / time on your schedule for the week.
• Paid Administrative Time - 10 minutes paid admin time for every executed session.
• Professional Development & Clinical Supervision - we conduct a weekly group clinical meeting where you will have a regular opportunity to absorb and learn from our amazing team of clinicians. As an associate clinician you will also receive regular 1 : 1 Clinical Supervision meetings. We will do all that is required to support you towards your independent licensure.
• Free Continuing Education - All Clinicians receive a subscription to Ellie On-line Learning Management System for unlimited free CEU credits.
• Paid Yearly License Renewal - Ellie will pay for the renewal of all required State licenses. Includes both ID and WA for this location. (cannot do the job without it)
• Wellness Support - Ellie North Idaho will reimburse up to $25 / month for verified gym membership usage (wellness is good). If you have a unique approach to wellness let us know!
• 401(k)
• Dental insurance / Health insurance / Vision insurance
• Beautiful Office Spaces with everything that you might need
• Provided technology to do the job
• Ellie Swag because we can not help ourselves!

What else you should know :

• This position is in POST FALLS, IDAHO
• We are in the brand new Millworx Development, right next to Kindred & Co. on 4th Street! This is a very convenient location of commuting from WA.
• This position will be under the general direction of the Clinical Director, Julie Krapfl, LMFT
• Learn more about our amazing company at www.elliementalhealth.com

Salary : $25