Licensed Outpatient Mental Health Therapist

Job description

Seeking Creative & Collaborative Humans With A Passion For Changing Mental Health Care In Fun And Meaningful Ways

Ellie Mental Health is a highly successful multi-clinic mental health organization. Ellie clinics are structured to remove many of the daily obstacles that get in the way of providing world-class mental health services. Ellie makes the clinician's experience a priority by offering: excellent compensation, benefits, training, and flexible scheduling. Not to mention providing centralized administrative, technology, referral and inquiry support, scheduling, client/therapist matching, billing and collections, and even CEU programs. 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!

The perfect candidate will share our passion for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care and will thrive in a culture that emphasizes: autonomy, flexibility, creativity, authenticity, humor, compassion, acceptance and determination. Opportunities for individual, family, and group therapy services as well as Telehealth.

Responsibilities and duties include evaluating mental health diagnosis, creating and implementing a treatment plan, providing excellent customer service for clients and collaborating with a dynamic team to further the mission of filling gaps in our community, utilizing creativity in interventions to help clients achieve and exceed goals, coordinating services with case managers, families, work personnel, medical personnel, other Ellie staff, and school staff as needed, attending and participating in all clinical staff meetings and trainings, and other stuff we probably missed adding, but just as meaningful and important to your role.

Required qualifications and skills include a master's degree or higher in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university, clinical licensure (LMFT, LPC, LCSW, etc.) with a valid state of Missouri License, ability to supervise up to three Provisionally Licensed therapists for licensure, required experience with completing DAs, treatment plans and clinical case notes, required experience with children, adolescents and teens, 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, proficiency in the use of typical office technology (computers, e-mail, etc.) and Electronic Health Record systems (Valant experience a plus!), and ability to pass a background check.

Preferred qualifications and skills include experience with individuals, couples and families, general knowledge of therapy services, community resources, insurance billing, and previous experience with mental health documentation.

Ellie Mental Health offers competitive salary, PTO accrual, paid holidays, 401K with matching component, medical/dental/vision options, and professional development. Flexible scheduling, hourly pay structure PLUS commission on claims, paid continuing education time, and pay for administrative time that covers consultation and documentation.

This position is located in Wentzville, Missouri. This position will be under the general direction of the Clinical Director.

Flexible work from home options available. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Worksite address

wentzville, MO, 63385, US

Who can apply

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