Job Description

Exciting opportunity to join our new team doing office-based play therapy, talk therapy, and family therapy in downtown Portsmouth!

We are looking for therapists who are passionate about helping children who suffered so much during the lockdowns to thrive. Many children did not receive effective therapy during the lockdowns and the school closures because telehealth may not have been the best modality for them. We want to help those kids!

Professional License not required. Excellent supervision provided.

We expect to be credentialed with the leading payers in New Hampshire including Medical Assistance. Estimated start date late October.

Qualities:

Are you a well-grounded professional with good boundaries and advanced interpersonal wisdom?

Are you curious?

Are you smart, strong, and ethical?

Do people experience you as authentic and trustworthy?

Can you keep your personal politics from contaminating the consulting room?

Are you a good psychological container?

Are you innovative and flexible?

Do you believe personal agency, hard work, and resilience overcome social obstacles?

Can you do a thorough biopsychosocial assessment and apply effective treatment without contamination from confounding variables and third-party pressures to arrive at a priori conclusions?

Are you able to focus on a singular goal \xe2\x80\x93 to help your patients get better?

If you have these capacities and beliefs, and you want to join a team comprised of other psychotherapy superstars you have come to the right place. This is your opportunity to be part of a new, locally owned Ellie Mental Health clinic in downtown Portsmouth. We need high-performing clinicians who love this work because they understand that every time we help one person or one family, we change the world.

Clinic Description

As an Outpatient Psychotherapist at Ellie Mental Health Portsmouth-Seacoast, 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.

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 Family 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\xe2\x80\x99ve made it our goal to fill the gap and find innovative ways to break down these barriers for the communities we serve. Most importantly, when people come to Ellie Mental Health Portsmouth-Seacoast they either get better or we help them find another avenue for improvement.

Core Responsibilities:

• Engage patients artfully from the first contact to gain their confidence and trust.
• Complete an expert, thorough, common-sense, and relevant biopsychosocial assessment for every patient that guides everything that follows.
• Use advanced clinical judgment based on direct observation and other data to uncover the individual and relational factors that are contributing to the reason the patient contacted you.
• Provide transparent and detailed informed consent about the expectations and the fees as part of the therapy contract before treatment commences.
• Co-create relevant goals with patients that stem directly from their identified problems.
• Provide relationship-oriented and creative psychotherapy to help clients achieve their goals.
• Measure and record progress as a function of the evolving therapeutic relationship.
• Coordinate services/referrals and collaborate with families, other professionals, and natural community supports.
• Collaborate with our local team of psychotherapy superstars.
• Provide all clinical documentation in the Valant electronic health record system on a timely basis.
• Participate in clinical staff meetings, administrative meetings, individual supervision, and required training.
• Maintain an unrestricted active clinical license (if applicable) for practice.
• Conduct a minimum of 25 client visits per week to be considered full-time and receive benefits.

Required Qualifications:

Ellie Mental Health Portsmouth-Seacoast is seeking the following psychotherapy professionals:

• Interns (high-quality clinical supervision is available)
• Pre-licensed Clinicians
• Licensed Clinicians that are not yet credentialed by third-party payers
• Licensed Clinicians that are credentialed by one or some third-party payers
• Licensed Clinicians that are credentialed by many third-party payers

Preferred: Clinical Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Pastoral Counselors. Licensed candidates must be licensed to practice in New Hampshire. Salary is adjusted to the qualifications above.

New Hampshire offers a 120-day temporary license for mental health professionals who wish to relocate to our wonderful area, or for people who live in neighboring states and want to commute to downtown Portsmouth. New Hampshire also now offers licensure by endorsement for out of state licensees.

Other Skills:

• Experience completing biopsychosocial/diagnostic assessments, treatment plans, and clinical progress notes. We limit documentation to what is necessary to promote good care.
• Proficiency in the English language. Bi-lingual a plus.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in Office 365 and electronic health record systems (Valant experience a plus).
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a team environment that values accountability, authenticity, and humor.
• Ability to meet professional expectations of the psychotherapy culture for demeanor and dress.
• The capacity to maintain a singular focus on helping patients get better, despite pressure from others who might have social agendas to influence the content and direction of treatment.

Salary: $50,000 \xe2\x80\x93 $70,000 per year for a full-time position depending on licensure status and paneling. We are also offering pro-rated, part-time positions. We do not have a non-compete requirement because we want to attract the best people.

Perks:

• High-quality clinical supervision
• An environment that does not allow socio-political contamination
• Dedicated, beautiful office space
• Paid vacation and holidays, including your birthday
• Healthcare benefits
• Up to 40 hours paid time for required annual CEU training with access to Ellie\xe2\x80\x99s vast CEU library
• Potential funding towards licensure certification/recertification
• Client-Therapist matching with our online tool. You see who you want to see.
• Opportunity to be creative and develop your passions into new programs and services

Employee Experience

We take care of our people. From investing in their financial future, to providing wages that shatter the ceiling in our industry, to reasonable caseload expectations, we strive to create an enriching work culture. Fortified employees 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 have the energy and optimism to help patients get better.

Company Structure

Ellie is a socially responsible for-profit business, which allows us to be flexible and responsive to our community\xe2\x80\x99s needs. Many mental health and wellness-focused companies are non-profits or government agencies, which rely on public grants, or large donors for funding. This model often results in little creativity and lower compensation for employees, thus promoting a stale work culture.

We created a new model: one that puts flexibility, innovation, creativity, and our people first, while remaining a socially conscious and responsible for-profit business focused on changing how we treat mental health.

Most importantly, our singular focus at Ellie Mental Health Portsmouth-Seacoast is outcomes. We help our patients get better and that helps our clinicians avoid brownout, because they see progress. These are the characteristics that make Ellie Mental Health Portsmouth-Seacoast different.

If you believe you would fit in well with our company culture, and you want to make a difference in the world during these tumultuous times, please contact us.

Ellie Mental Health - Seacoast, NH