Job Description

ELLIE LOVES Lexington, KY! Looking for a leader to continue the undeniable growth!

Be a part of a national movement to end the stigma, fill the gaps and bring greater innovation to mental health.

About Ellie:
Ellie Mental Health is a highly successful mental health multi-clinic organization based in Minnesota. Ellie clinics are structured to remove many of the daily obstacles that get in the way of providing world-class mental health services.

Ellie makes the clinician\xe2\x80\x99s experience the best it can be, by providing excellent compensation, benefits, training, and flexible schedules while also providing centralized administrative, technology, referral and inquiry support, scheduling, client/therapist matching, billing and collections, and even CEU programs.

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!

Other clinics may have some similar approaches to these things, but Ellie has found the way to do it all and is bringing our innovative approach to the nation.

Who we are looking for:

We are seeking a passionate and unique Clinical Director to partner with us in bringing Ellie to Lexington.

The perfect candidate is a unique, fun-loving and authentic leader who has always dreamed of running a successful practice, will share our passion for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care in Kentucky. In addition, help build a culture that emphasizes flexibility, creativity, authenticity, humor, compassion, acceptance and determination.

The Clinic Director will be highly compensated (salary, commissions, bonuses and great benefits!) for accepting responsibility for the overall performance and operation of a clinic composed of 12-16 professional therapists. This includes hiring and recruiting fantastic, unique, and fun-loving clinicians, managing clinic performance and client satisfaction, providing training and ongoing developmental support, meeting fiscal goals, marketing clinical services and building community partnerships and referrals.

The Clinic Director will also have the flexibility to manage their own caseload at a comfortable level.

Position requirements:

The Clinical Director will have a master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in a behavioral health sciences or related field from an accredited college or university and be fully licensed mental health professional (i.e., CLPC, LCSW, etc.) in Kentucky for at least 2 years (Supervisor recognition preferred).

Desired experience, skills and abilities include:

• Supervising or program development/leadership is ideal

• Strong working knowledge of state requirements regulating mental health practices

• Vision for recruiting therapist peers

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

• Working understanding of human resource principles, practices, and procedures

• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines

• Ability to work 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

• A great sense of humor won\xe2\x80\x99t hurt - we love to laugh!

Position Responsibilities include:

• Providing training, staff development, and administrative oversight to support the overall health of the clinic including conducting regular consultations with the clinic owner to implement strategies for fiscal and clinical efficiency and to identify opportunities to improve client care, quality, and effectiveness

• Hiring, onboarding, training, supervising, and managing clinic therapists according to Ellie standards, including handling PTO requests, expense reimbursements, CEU requests, mediating issues and concerns, managing clinic office schedules, reviewing productivity, caseload, and clinical documentation, implementing performance coaching, performance improvement plans, supervision plans, conducting annual performance reviews and handing termination processes

• Providing timely response to concerns raised by clients, clinicians, or external stakeholders

• Implementing Ellie policies and procedures, including updating clinicians of changes related to Ellie clinical operations (i.e., policy changes, HR regulations, IT systems, EHR requirements and best practices, workflows, clinic updates, compliance expectations, etc.)

• Collaborating with Ellie Community Outreach and marketing teams to identify needs and promote clinic visibility

• Maintaining a clinical caseload.

The Clinic Director will be an active leader in the business and will be compensated with a base salary, plus a split of collections from caseload, plus performance bonuses.

Ellie Mental Health - Ohio and Kentucky