Outpatient Mental Health Therapist

Benefits :

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Training & development

Company parties

Flexible schedule

Opportunity for advancement

Vision insurance

Clinic Description

Are you an energetic, awesome and compassionate therapist? Looking for a place to be your REAL self and provide quality mental health care and thrive in an environment driven by core values of authenticity, humor, compassion, creativity, acceptance, and determination? We want our therapists to be happy to do better work and provide better care. We are human and our health is important too! Our openness to more modern and welcoming mental health approaches is highly desired among team members. Ellie Mental Health of Central NJ is looking for therapists to join our team!

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. We want therapists to do what they love serve others with minimal administrative aspects of providing care.

Our Therapists will :

• Collaborate and be an active part of a team family, while also supporting your autonomy, flexibility, determination, and authenticity in individual work
• Opportunities to provide individual, family, group therapies, as well as Telehealth services
• Be of diverse identities, cultures, experiences
• 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
• Provide excellent customer service for clients and 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
• Prepare and submit individual documentation for each session per company guidelines and protocol
• Meet and complete a required minimum of 25 client sessions per week (scheduling 32) on full-time basis for better work-life balance
• Coordinate services with case managers, families, work personnel, medical personnel, other Ellie staff, and school staff as needed
• Attend and participate in all clinical staff meetings and trainings
• Other stuff we probably forgot to add but just as meaningful and important to your role ;)

We Offer :

• Competitive salary, benefits package, PTO accrual, flexible scheduling, and continuous professional development
• Paid holidays, including your birthday
• Paid CE time off and additional access to our own Continuing Education Library
• Opportunities to be creative and develop your own passions into new programs and services
• Beautiful new office space with modern decor, provided furnishings, warm environment for team members and clients

Responsibilities Include :

• 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
• Provide excellent customer service for clients and 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
• Prepare and submit individual documentation for each session per company guidelines and protocol
• Full-Time status clinicians must maintain completing of a minimum of 25 client sessions per week
• Coordinate services with CMO case managers, families, schools, etc as needed
• Attend and participate in all clinical team meetings and trainings
• 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 an active NJ license (LMFT / LAMFT, LPC / LAC, LCSW / LSW)
• Candidates are required to have a master's degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of one year work experience under their clinical licensure (LMFT / LAMFT, LPC / LAC, LCSW / LSW)
• Experience with completing DAs, treatment plans and clinical progress notes
• 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 in the use of Office 365 and Electronic Health Record systems (Valant experience a plus!)

We want to create a team family of people who want to make a difference to their local communities and mental health. We invest in taking care of our people and to form a strong relationship with each clinician to feel heard, respected, and supported. Happy employees is the "no duh" to happier clients and better care!

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?