Child and Family Outpatient Licensed Mental Health Therapist
Full Time • Portland
Responsive recruiter
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Training & development
Compassionate, Innovative and Revolutionary. Do these empowering words describe you? If so, this is your opportunity to be part of a new, locally owned Ellie Mental Health clinic. We are operating in the Greater Portland area to complement and supplement the ever-present demand for the highest quality of outpatient mental health services! Our objective: Change the quality of life for our clinicians as well as our clients!
Perks:
Perks:
- Annual Performance Based Raises
- Paid vacation and holidays, including your birthday and Volunteer Hours
- 401K Plan with Generous Employer Match
- Healthcare Benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision)
- Paid time for required annual CEU training with access to Ellie’s CEU library
- Potential funding towards licensure certification/recertification
- Client-Therapist Matching
- Dedicated/well appointed office space for full time clinicians with Telehealth options
- Opportunity to be creative and develop your passions into new programs and services
Please note:
Salary range listed is a combination of a base pay and commission.
Salary range listed is a combination of a base pay and commission.
Position is located in Falmouth, ME. *Requires availability to come into the office most days with the flexibility for some remote work.
About Ellie:
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"s mantra is to de-stigmatize 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. At Ellie, our objective is to provide our team with their ideal life/work balance enabling them to deliver the best to those who need it the most.
The Position:
As a Child and Family Outpatient Therapist at Ellie Mental Health, you will 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. You will own your client portfolio and optimally manage your hours with support from the executive clinic director.
Responsibilities:
- Clinical documentation:
- Intake paperwork for services including biopsychosocial assessments, assessment for medical necessity, provide/clarify diagnosis, and create and implement initial treatment plans.
- Complete ongoing documentation in a timely manner including annual assessments, re-assessment of diagnosis, treatment plan reviews, insurance reviews, collateral contacts, progress notes, and other documentation as appropriate according to company policy/protocol and client needs.
- Provide excellent clinical services for clients through the use of creativity and innovative therapy tools to help them and their families achieve and exceed their goals.
- Coordinate services/referrals and collaborate with families and professional supports including work personnel, medical/med management personnel, case managers, other Ellie staff, and school staff as needed.
- Collaborate with a dynamic and passionate team to further the mission of filling the gaps in our community.
- Attend and participate in all clinical staff meetings, administrative meetings, individual supervision, and trainings.
- Maintain an unrestricted active clinical license for practice. Maintain a caseload of a minimum of 25 client visits per week to be considered full-time status and receive benefits. The schedule is flexible and based on your availability!
- Other stuff we probably forgot to add but just as meaningful and important to your role ;)
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- Have a master’s degree in one of the behavioral health sciences from an accredited college or university.
- Have a Maine-issued unrestricted full or conditional clinical license to practice (LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, or Conditional etc).
- Focus of clinical work is with children and adolescents with flexibility to see people through young adulthood (ages 5-30). Ability to work with families/guardians as part of treatment and conduct family therapy and parenting support.
- Willingness to work after school and/or weekend hours to meet client availability. (Must be able to work at least 3 nights to 6pm or later in person)
- Required experience with completing biopsychosocial/diagnostic assessments, treatment plans and clinical progress notes.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to demonstrate and model stable appropriate boundaries with clients/guardians and engage in ethical practice.
- Organized and reliable, including the ability to complete and submit documentation in a timely manner.
- Ability to manage and own your client portfolio with Clinic Director's oversight.
- Comfort and familiarity working with a diverse client base and family systems demonstrating compassion and acceptance.
- Proficient in the use of Office 365 and Electronic Health Record systems (Valant experience a plus!)
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a team environment that values humor and authenticity.
- A passion for destigmatizing mental health and willingness to support efforts through community involvement.
- A willingness to be completely transparent and genuine with a dab of levity and dollop of passion and enthusiasm!
Preferred Qualifications and Skills:
- Experience with family and/or couples therapy.
- 1 year post graduate experience providing therapy as a conditionally licensed provider.
- Registration or certification in one of the expressive arts therapies.
- Experience with play therapy and/or sand tray therapy.
- Specialized training in other innovative, creative, and/or holistic therapy approaches.
Compensation: $60,000.00 - $90,000.00 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