Associate Licensed Mental Health Therapist

Clinic Description
As an Associate 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 always 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: Associate Therapists!!!!
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). Opportunities for individual, family, and group therapy services as well as Telehealth. We love to have fun and help our community.
Responsibilities and Duties

• As an Associate Clinician you would be under direct clinical supervision. You will be provided a high level of training and 1:1 time to learn all industry wide best practices with clinical documentation (CDAs, treatment plans, progress notes, discharge summaries, etc.)
• Complete comprehensive diagnostic assessments and evaluate and provide Mental Health diagnosis within the first week of services, and update yearly. Create and implement a treatment plans 30 days after initiating treatment, and update every 90 days. Complete progress notes for every session according to company policy.
• Full-time clinicians schedule 30 clients per week and are expected to execute a minimum of 25 sessions per week.
• Provide excellent customer service for clients, and be highly responsive to all communications.
• 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
• Other stuff we probably forgot to add but just as meaningful and important to your role

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Candidates are required to have a master's degree (or very close to it) in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university and on track to obtain licensure in their designated field
• Candidates should minimally have Idaho state licensure(Intern, LPC, LAMFT, LMSW) and actively pursuing clinical licensure.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate and model stable, appropriate boundaries with clients
• Ability to complete and submit documentation of services and other documents in a timely manner
• Comfort and familiarity working with a diverse client base
• Proficient (or can be with a little training) in the use of Microsoft Office 365 and Electronic Health Record systems (Valant experience a plus!)
• Comfort with collecting the patient's financial responsibility at time of service
• Comfort with be your client's primary form of contact for all needs. (our model does not have an office receptionist)
• Ability to pass a background check

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Preferred experience with completing CDAs, treatment plans and progress notes
• Preferred openness to a range of ages and types of clinical presentations, as it is hard to know your specialty starting out.
• 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 an options for Base Salary Pay and a unique Hybrid Pay Model option.
• Paid Time Off starting at 10 days of paid time off that is accrued throughout the year.
• Holiday Time off of 5 days that are determined by you. You declare what 5 holidays in the year are important to you and your family.
• Flex Time Off - with flexible scheduling you are in charge of YOUR schedule. If you need time to go to a doctors appointment you do not need to use PTO when you flex any potentially missed sessions or meetings to a different day/time on your schedule for the week.
• Paid Administrative Time
• Professional Development & Clinical Supervision - we conduct a weekly group clinical meeting where you will have a regular opportunity to absorb and learn from our amazing team of clinicians. As an associate clinician you will also receive regular 1:1 Clinical Supervision meetings. We will do all that is required to support you towards your independent licensure.
• Free Continuing Education - All Clinicians receive a subscription to Ellie On-line Learning Management System for unlimited free CEU credits.
• 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: $50,000.00 - $60,000.00 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?