Lead Therapist - Behavioral Health (Nebraska)

Summary Description Of Work

Unique opportunity to maintain a caseload of clients providing clinical support in an outpatient setting while also offering training, mentorship, leadership, expertise, and guidance to a team of clinicians who are growing their skills.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Assists with training new therapists in clinical and program procedures.
• Provides consultation and supervision for therapists when clinical supervisor is unavailable.
• Aids in overall program functioning such as client intake, discharge, and represents clinical staff in other avenues as needed.
• Completes and trains clinicians on evaluations with a diverse population of clients with co-occurring disorders utilizing evidence-based practices.
• Establishes and supports clinicians on treatment plans, with client participation, specifying treatment structure, outcomes, goals and objectives; within first 2 sessions.
• Provides counseling to individuals in group, couple, family, or individual settings, within the framework of the treatment plan and monitors progress and offers guidance to a team of clinicians on how to maintain.
• Completes all case documentation for clinical and billing purposes; maintaining clinical records that meet established standards of timeliness and completeness and helps newer clinicians learn a sustainable practice.
• Handles cases of the highest degree of complexity.
• Collaborates with all programs within Heartland Family Service to have a better understanding of what they offer in order to support evaluation recommendations in Heartland’s continuation of care.
• Is prompt and accurate in completing all required reports, statistics and other requirements.
• Maintains clinical requirements of third party payers (authorizations, reviews, documentation) and provides information necessary for prompt and accurate billing.
• Provides mental health crisis intervention as needed.
• Is dependable and punctual regarding scheduling and attendance.
• Strives to make connections between the agency and the larger community whenever possible in order to contribute to the agency’s ongoing fundraising and friend-raising efforts.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s Degree
• Licensed Eligible - LMHP; LIMHP; LMSW; LCSWLADC or CADC or substance abuse treatment experience preferred

What You’ll Love About Us

• Trauma Informed work environment
• Flexible Work Schedule
• Work From Home Option (for some positions)
• Clinical Supervision provided at no cost
• Employer paid training opportunities on Clinical topics, modalities, and Evidence-Based Practices
• Flexible Leave (between 20-25 days)
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Educational loan assistance
• Health Insurance includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Voluntary Life Insurance, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, and Accidental coverage
• Paid FMLA (up to four weeks)
• 401K Retirement (up to 7% match)
• Casual Dress Environment
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Length of service cash awards