Independently Licensed Mental Health Therapist
Coeur D Alene
Independently Licensed Mental Health Therapist
Full Time • Coeur D Alene
Clinic Description
As an Outpatient Therapist at Ellie Mental Health, you'll share our vision for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care and thrive in an environment driven by our core values of authenticity, humor, compassion, creativity, acceptance, and determination. Ellie Mental Health was founded in 2015 by Erin Pash, LMFT and Kyle Keller, LICSW when they opened the first Ellie clinic in Minneapolis. Since then, the Ellie Fam has continued to grow with multiple clinics in Minnesota and a growing number of locally owned and operated franchises across the country. Ellie was proudly founded on the principle of destigmatizing mental health. The mental health industry is full of barriers, and we’ve made it our goal to fill the gap and find innovative ways to break down these barriers for the communities we serve.
Who is Ellie Coeur d'Alene?
Ellie Mental Health of Coeur d'Alene is a group of like minded mental health providers that are committed to serve our clients. We are structured to remove many of the daily obstacles that get in the way of providing world-class mental health services. The clinician’s experience is our priority and we show this by offering excellent compensation, benefits, training, free CEUs, and therapist controlled scheduling. We know that clinicians do not enjoy the administrative side of the work we do so we take care of that for our clinicians. We have centralized administrative, technology, referral and inquiry support, scheduling, client/therapist matching, billing and collections, and insurance contracting/credentialling. 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.
Who we are looking for: Independently Licensed Clinicians (with a bunch of wisdom that they want to share)
The perfect candidate will share our passion for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care in our local community and will thrive in a culture that emphasizes autonomy, flexibility, creativity, authenticity, humor, compassion, acceptance and determination (our core values). As we continue to grow our group of amazing therapists we want to me mindful of bringing in the wisdom and experience that comes with years of independent experience. We highly value this and are searching for an experienced clinician that enjoys taking on a leadership role and helping those around them grow.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Complete CDAs, evaluate and provide mental health diagnosis, create and implement a treatment plans, and complete ongoing documentation including yearly CDAs, further diagnosis, treatment plan reviews, and progress notes for every session according to company policy
- Maintain a caseload of a minimum of 25 client visits per week. You can choose to work more and in turn you will make more
- Provide excellent customer service for clients
- Collaborate with a dynamic team to further the mission of filling gaps in our community
- Utilize creativity in interventions to help clients achieve and exceed goals
- Coordinate services with case managers, families, work personnel, medical personnel, other Ellie staff, and school staff as indicated
- Attend and participate in all clinical staff meetings and trainings, and other fun stuff that we do
- If Clinical Supervision within the company is part of your role:
- Provide regular one-on-one supervision for your selected supervisees
- If required, sign off on their clinical documentation
- Ensure that their work with within clinical and ethical expectations as well as company policies
- Report to the Clinical Director on any issues that arise with supervisees. The Director is in charge of addressing performance issues.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Candidates are required to have a LMFT, LCPC, LCSW license in the state of Idaho
- Minimum of 3+ years of full time clinical experience post receiving independent clinical license
- Prompt and Effective Communicator
- Comfort with presenting to groups when needed
- Model stable, appropriate boundaries with clients
- Complete and submit documentation of services and other documents in a timely manner
- Proficient in the use of Office 365 and Electronic Health Record systems (Valant experience a plus!)
- Comfort with a highly automated intake process - electronic paperwork, patient portals, etc.
- Comfort with collecting the patient's financial responsibility at time of service
- Ability to pass a background check
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
- Bonus structure for those already credentialed with insurance panels - BCBS, Aetna, Cigna/Evernorth, UHC/Optum Commercial, Regence, Pacific Source, Select Health, Mountain Health Co-op, TriWest, TriCare, etc.
- Bonus structure for those that bring a full caseload with them
- Willingness to work with couples, families, children, and teens
- We prefer that candidates share our passion for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care in our local community and come with ideas of how to can improve access in our community
- We prefer that candidates see our core values of Autonomy, Flexibility, Creativity, Authenticity, Humor, Compassion, Acceptance and Determination, and they instantly feel that this is right place for them to be
What we have to offer:
All Ellie We believe that we must first take care of our therapists, nurture their growth, support their ideas, and provide them with the resources they need. We believe that in doing this we are caring for our clients. Happy and fulfilled therapist = exceptional client experience!
- Ellie Mental Health offers competitive pay with a unique Hybrid Pay Model. This model allows for the stability of salary pay and the earning potential of commission pay. Someone with this level of experience would be at Tier 4 of our pay model which is 35% Commission and a base pay rate of $20/session. Estimated annual gross earning range of $75,000 (avg 25 sessions/week) - $100,000 (avg 35 sessions/week)
- Paid Time Off based on your declared performance goals and length of employment. Starting at 10 days, and over time and based on performance potential of 20 days per year.
- Self-Determined Holidays - everyone gets 5 paid days per year that they determine as important holidays for themselves and their families.
- Flex Time Off - with flexible scheduling that you manage your schedule is YOUR schedule. If you need time to go to a doctors appointment you do not need to use PTO when you flex that time to a different day/time on your schedule for the week.
- Paid Administrative Time - All Clinicians automatically get Paid Administrative Time for every executed session (as paperwork does not write itself)
- Professional Development & Free Continuing Education - All Clinicians receive a subscription to Ellie On-line Learning Management System for unlimited free CEU credits. We will also coordinate our own regular local CEU events that will be no charge to our therapists.
- Paid Yearly License Renewal - Ellie will pay for the renewal of all required State licenses (cannot do the job without it)
- Wellness Support - Ellie North Idaho will reimburse up to $25/month for verified gym membership usage (wellness is good). If you have a unique approach to wellness let us know!
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance / Health insurance / Vision insurance
- Beautiful Office Spaces with everything that you might need
- Provided technology to do the job
- Ellie Swag because we can not help ourselves!
What else you should know:
- This position is in COEUR D'ALENE, IDAHO
- We are in the Riverstone Development, right next to beautiful walking paths, great restaurants, and in the summer the weekly farmers market!
- This position will be under the general direction of the Clinical Director, Julie Krapfl, LMFT
- Learn more about our amazing company at www.elliementalhealth.com
Compensation: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year
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!
Y’all, jobs in mental health are tough jobs with a high risk of emotional fatigue and burnout. At Ellie, we use all of our core values of humor, creativity, authenticity, acceptance, determination, and compassion not just out in our communities, but we turn them inwards too! Our employees have clear growth paths for advancing their careers.
We have created a culture that reminds us that our employees are our leaders!
Company Structure
Ellie is a socially responsible for-profit business, which allows us to be flexible and responsive to our community’s needs. Many mental health and wellness-focused companies are non-profits or government agencies, which rely on the general public, grants, or large donors for funding. This model often results in little creativity and lower compensation for employees, promoting a work culture that just makes people feel “blah.”
Feeling blah doesn’t help employees stay motivated, engaged, or even in their jobs for a very long time! So we created a new model: one that puts flexibility, innovative decision-making, creativity, and our people first, while remaining a socially conscious and responsible for-profit business focused on changing how we treat mental health.
In short, we’re just people helping people. Wanna join the herd?
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A company rooted in values of creativity, humor, compassion, acceptance, determination, and authenticity
Unique pay model with industry leading compensation
Comfortable, furnished offices and clinic environment