Outpatient Mental Health Clinic Director

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Opportunity for advancement

Qualifications

• Independently licensed with a state-issued clinical practice license (e.g., LSCW, LMFT, LPC)
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, and executive skill sets
• Ability to provide license supervision preferred
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong working knowledge of state requirements regulating mental health practice
• Working understanding of human resource principles, practices, and procedures
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and changing environment
• Proficient with Microsoft 365 applications, including Office Suite, Outlook, and Teams
• Adept at learning and navigating Electronic Health Record systems

Responsibilities

• Reporting & Supervision
• Supervise the hiring process for all therapists at their clinic
• Provide all training for clinic new hires, ensuring all required Ellie Mental Health clinical and operational policies and procedures are taught and followed
• Assess ongoing development and training needs and conduct ongoing training as needed
• Hold staff compassionately accountable to meeting performance expectations
• Manage staff performance, including implementing Performance Coaching, Performance Improvement Plans, and termination process as needed
• Manage basic clinic Human Resource tasks
• Supervision and Consultation
• Participate in Clinic Director Peer Consult Group
• Provide 1:1 consultation with all therapy staff to review productivity, caseload, and clinical documentation
• Oversee twice monthly peer consultation groups to ensure clinical excellence and alignment with best practices
• Provide clinical oversight to clinic’s Mental Health Practitioners and Professionals, including signing clinical documentation for pre-licensed providers
• Clinic Oversight
• Provide training, staff development, and administrative oversight to support the functioning of the clinic
• Collaborate with franchise owner and Ellie Mental Health corporate staff (as needed) to implement strategies for fiscal and clinical efficiency
• Maintain clinic office schedules and office supplies
• Provide timely response to concerns raised by clients, clinicians, or external stakeholders
• Serve as point of contact for building management related issues or concerns
• Collaborate with Ellie Corporate Marketing Team to promote clinic’s online visibility
• Identify opportunities to improve client care, quality, and effectiveness, and implement changes in collaboration with franchise owners and executive team
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Mental health counseling: 3 years (Required)
• Management: 1 year (Required)
• Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LMFT), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LCSW), or Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPC)
• Supervisor License (Preferred)

About the Role

Seeking creative & collaborative humans with a passion for changing mental health care in fun and meaningful ways.

Don’t meet EVERY requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Ellie Mental Health is devoted to purposefully building an inclusive and diverse workplace where all of our humans can be their authentic selves! (Authenticity is one of our core values, after all…) If you’re excited about the chance to be a change-maker with us, but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with every single qualification of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. Our mental health jobs need dedicated individuals from every background who are willing to care for others. And who knows, you might just be the perfect candidate for another role!

Employee Experience

We take care of our people. It’s that simple. From investing in their financial future, to providing wages that shatter the ceiling in our industry to reasonable caseload expectations we ensure that our people are happy. Happy employees do better work and provide better client care! No matter what it is that you do in your mental health career at Ellie, our clients depend on us cultivating an environment where our employees can thrive so that they can thrive too!

Company Structure

In short, we’re just people helping people. Wanna join the herd?