WE ARE EXCITED THAT ELLIE IS COMING TO BRANDON, FLORIDA!

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WE REQUIRE YOU TO BE INDEPENDENTLY LICENSED (Ph.D, PsyD, LISCW, LCSW, LPCC, LMFT, LMHC, LP) IN FLORIDA

About Ellie

Here at Ellie Mental Health, we are joining the mission to fill the gaps, and break down the stigma of mental health by focusing on greater access to professional therapists who can help. The mental health and wellness field presents a lot of barriers not just for patients and those in need, but for the whole community including licensed therapists, counselors and professional helpers. This is why Ellie Mental Health VOWS TO BE DIFFERENT! The Ellie Family provides innovative services with the goal of creating impactful connections between patients and therapists.

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’s experience the BEST IT CAN BE; 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!

Who We Are Looking For?

We are seeking a passionate Clinical Director who is aligned with making a positive impact in our community at our Brandon location with two more locations to subsequently open in East Hillsborough County.

The perfect candidate will share our vision for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care, and who will thrive in an environment driven by our core values which are authenticity, humor, compassion, creativity, acceptance and determination.

The Clinic Director will be highly compensated (salary, commissions, and bonuses!) for accepting responsibility for the overall performance and operation of a clinic composed of approximately 14 - 18 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.

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 grant or large donors for funding. This model often results in little creativity and lower compensation for clinicians and promoting a work culture that just makes people feel “blah”

Feeling blah doesn’t help clinicians stay motivated, engaged or even in their positions for a very long time! 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.

Ellie was proudly founded on the principal of destigmatizing mental health. The main way we do this? With humor! We believe that struggling with mental health issues is 100% normal. Some days are great, and some days make you wish you could dig yourself in a hole and hide from it all. Everyone has those days (even your therapist).

Every single person on this Earth has had their share of bad days – and if they say otherwise just know that’s total BS. When your mental health is at its lowest, getting the care you need should be as easy to access as possible. Ellie is here to provide you that support: a real person walking alongside you through life’s wildest moments.

Responsibilities of the Clinical Director will include, but are absolutely, definitely and in no possible way limited to:Hiring, Training, and Staff Management

Oversee the hiring process for all therapists at their clinic.

Provide all training for clinic new hires, ensuring all required Ellie Mental Health clinical and operational policies and procedures are taught and followed.

Assess ongoing development and training needs and conduct ongoing training as needed.

Hold staff compassionately accountable for meeting performance expectations.

Manage staff performance, including implementing Performance Coaching, Performance Improvement Plans, and termination process as needed.

Supervision and Consultation

Oversee peer consultation groups to ensure clinical excellence and align with best practices.

Provide clinical oversight to clinic’s Mental Health Practitioners and Professionals, including signing clinical documentation for pre-licensed providers.

Participate in Clinic Director Peer Consult Group.

Provide 1:1 consultation with all therapy staff to review productivity, caseload, and clinical documentation.

Client Care

Evaluate mental health diagnosis, create, and implement a treatment plan, complete ongoing documentation including further diagnosis, treatment plan reviews, and case notes according to company policy.

Utilize creativity in interventions to help clients achieve and exceed goals.

Prepare and submit individual documentation for each session per company guidelines and protocol.

Coordinate services with case managers, families, work personnel, medical personnel, other Ellie staff, and school staff as needed.

Clinic Oversight

Collaborate with franchise owner and Ellie Mental Health corporate staff (as needed) to implement strategies for fiscal and clinical efficiency.

Monitor and manage clinic office schedules and office supplies.

Provide timely response to concerns raised by clients, clinicians, or external stakeholders.

Serve as point of contact for building management related issues or concerns.

Clinic Outreach, Marketing, and Networking

Spearhead clinic’s community outreach and engagement efforts, in collaboration with franchise owner and consistent with guidance from Ellie Outreach Team.

Collaborate with Ellie Marketing Team to promote clinic’s online visibility.

Organizational Leadership

Collaborate with franchise owner and Ellie Corporate Team to implement all required policies and procedures.

Identify opportunities to improve client care, quality, and effectiveness, and implement changes in collaboration with franchise owner.

Required Skills/Abilities

Master’s Degree or higher education in mental health discipline and board approved supervisor.

Contracted with or previously contracted with a major medical insurance provider (Preferred)

Independently licensed with a Florida issued clinical practice license (e.g., Ph.D, PsyD, LISCW, LMFT, LPCC, LP etc).

Strong leadership, problem-solving, and executive skill sets.

Strong working knowledge of state requirements regulating mental health practice.

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 function well in a high-paced and changing environment.

Proficient with Microsoft 365 applications.

Adept at learning and navigating Electronic Health Record systems.

The catch all

Other duties as assigned or needed.

Reporting & Supervision

Clinic Director reports to local Franchise Owner

All clinic therapists report to Clinic Director.