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Job description
Job Title: Enhanced Outpatient Support,Lead Clinician
Location: Remote (California-licensed clinicians only)
Employment Type: W-2 | Potential for Full Time
Role Overview
The Enhanced Outpatient Lead Clinician provides treatment and leads treatment team for clients receiving Enhanced Outpatient Support, a structured outpatient level of care designed for individuals who need more than weekly therapy but do not meet criteria for higher levels of care.
This role is ideal for a clinician who enjoys complex case management, treatment planning, and collaborative care, and who is skilled at establishing and documenting medical necessity for increased frequency outpatient treatment.
The Lead Clinician serves as a primary clinical anchor for Enhanced Outpatient treatment track, ensuring continuity of care, treatment integrity, and coordinated intervention across providers.
Why This Role Matters
Enhanced Outpatient Support exists to bridge the gap between standard outpatient therapy and higher levels of care. The Lead Clinician plays a critical role in preventing unnecessary hospitalization or program escalation, while ensuring clients receive ethically sound, well-coordinated, and clinically appropriate care.
This role recognizes that high-quality outpatient leadership requires time, expertise, and clinical judgment beyond the therapy hour, and compensates accordingly.
Duties
Provide individual therapy sessions to EOS clients at increased frequency, as clinically indicated
Conduct comprehensive EOS intakes and reassessments
Develop and maintain clinically sound, insurance-supported treatment plans
Monitor risk, symptom progression, and functional impairment across the course of care
Oversee and coordinate care with associate clinicians providing adjunct services (skills sessions, family work, collateral support)
Guide treatment focus, sequencing, and intensity across modalities
Ensure alignment of interventions with identified treatment goals and medical necessity criteria
Collaborate with internal and external providers as appropriate (psychiatrists, primary care, schools, treatment programs, referral partners)
Participate in case consultations and care planning meetings related to EOS clients
Establish and clearly document medical necessity for Enhanced Outpatient level of care
Ensure treatment plans, progress notes, and assessments reflect clinical complexity, risk, and functional impairment
Track treatment response and recommend step-up or step-down in care as clinically indicate
Maintain fidelity to EOS model and outpatient scope of practice
Identify when clients no longer meet criteria for EOS and support transition planning
Requirements
Active license to practice therapy in California(LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, or Psychologist)
Minimum 1-3 years post-licensure clinical experience
Strong experience with complex outpatient cases (mood disorders, trauma, substance use, family systems, risk management)
Demonstrated ability to establish and document medical necessity
Comfort providing clinical leadership and overseeing associate clinicians
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
What We Offer
Competitive base session rate of $ per session hour
Per-client EOS pay enhancement structure for non-billable clinical leadership work
Flexible scheduling within a structured care model
Full time consideration at 25 session hours per week
Administrative and leadership training
Opportunity to shape and grow a scalable outpatient program
A values-driven, clinician-led practice culture
PTO based on accrual (Full time)
Health benefits stipend for part and full time
Hourly Rate: $ USD per session hour depending on experience
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Worksite address
california, MO, 65018, US
Who can apply
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