Mental Health Therapist - IOC

Job Summary

The Intensive Outpatient Clinic (IOC) seeks a licensed mental health clinician to join a collaborative team providing wraparound care for adults with intersecting mental health, medical, substance-use, and social challenges. The role involves therapy, collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, and contributing to clinical outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual psychotherapy using evidence-based approaches like CBT, DBT, ACT, MI, and trauma-informed care.
• Complete comprehensive behavioral health, suicide-risk, and safety assessments.
• Manage an ongoing outpatient therapy caseload.
• Participate in crisis intervention and same-day behavioral health evaluations.
• Partner with physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, pharmacists, medical assistants, and care coordinators.
• Participate in regular interdisciplinary huddles, treatment planning, and case consultation.
• Develop collaborative treatment plans and document care in the electronic health record.
• Support transitions following emergency department visits and psychiatric hospitalizations.
• Help patients build coping skills, emotional regulation, independence, and confidence.
• Coordinate with community resources when clinically indicated.
• Use defined clinical outcomes and patient feedback to guide care and contribute to ongoing improvement of the IOC care model.

Qualifications

• Current RQI Healthcare Provider eCredential through the University of Utah Health RQI system.
• One of the following licenses: L.C.S.W., Certified Social Worker, or other qualifying clinical licensure.
• Master's degree in Social Work, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Art Therapy, or a related behavioral health field.
• Experience providing individual psychotherapy to adults.
• Ability to assess behavioral health risk, develop safety plans, and respond effectively to clinical crises.
• Experience in integrated primary care, collaborative care, or interdisciplinary behavioral health settings.
• Experience in community mental health, hospital-based care, crisis stabilization, or other high-acuity outpatient settings.
• Training or experience in CBT, DBT, ACT, MI, or trauma-informed care.
• Experience working with adults with complex mental health needs, including trauma-related conditions, substance-use disorders, mood disorders, and personality-related challenges.
• Experience serving undeserved or medically complex populations.
• Interest in using clinical outcomes to guide treatment and improve care delivery.