Lead Therapist

Summary

Join Waymark as a Therapist Manager and become a core member of a multidisciplinary care team redefining care delivery for Medicaid patients. You will provide remote mental health counseling, triage patients, and utilize evidence-based treatment modalities. Responsibilities also include overseeing the therapy care model, coordinating with the interdisciplinary team, building community relationships, and actively participating in hiring and training. This leadership role involves shaping the design and implementation of the therapy care model in Ohio. The ideal candidate possesses a deep commitment to improving healthcare for underserved populations and significant experience delivering CBT, along with relevant licensure and supervisory experience. Waymark offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Deep commitment to improving healthcare for underserved populations
• Significant experience delivering CBT
• Alignment with Waymark’s core mission and values
• Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) or Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW)
• 2+ years post-Master’s-degree experience delivering psychosocial treatments to patients with behavioral health needs
• 3+ years in a clinical supervisory role
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in a multidisciplinary team setting
• Must reside in Ohio, greater Cleveland preferred, Ohio active license in good standing required

Responsibilities

• Appropriately triage and deliver psychosocial treatments and behavioral interventions for disorders common in the Medicaid population and amenable to remote behavioral health treatment (e.g., treatment for depressive and anxiety disorders, trauma, insomnia, chronic pain, etc.) via evidence-based time-limited psychotherapies and/or single session interventions, tailored to patient needs
• Provide direct telephonic and SMS-based outreach to Ohio Medicaid patients not yet established with Waymark and who may benefit from connecting directly with a behavioral health provider (e.g., following recent behavioral health admission)
• Collaborate with and support CHWs, pharmacists and care coordinators in using versatile behavioral health tools (e.g., motivational interviewing) to help with patients’ behavioral changes
• Participate in QI activities to promote increasingly high quality, cost-effective, and high value care (e.g., inform refinement of analytic dashboards, process improvement activities, documentation of internal workflows)
• Co-triage, along with physician supervisors, any acute behavioral health crisis that members of the Waymark team are made aware of (e.g., acute suicidality, homicidality)
• Supervise and lead other therapists in your market; includes operational (e.g., supporting adherence to proven workflows, monitoring and actioning opportunities for improvement) and clinical support
• Communicate with community partners and stakeholders (i.e. primary care providers and psychiatrists) to support patients in receiving appropriate services and care

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with underserved populations, across a spectrum of moderate to severe behavioral health conditions, including psychosis
• Experience delivering single session interventions (also known as single session therapy, single session thinking or single session consultations)
• Significant experience delivering DBT, PST, SFBT, or ACT
• Experience in community mental health, hospital/medical social work, inpatient behavioral health, or case management a plus
• Experience with creating policies and procedures to support providing mental health services
• Trauma-informed and harm reduction approach to behavioral health disorders
• Familiarity with the Collaborative Care Model of supporting mental health of patients in partnerships with primary care providers and, when appropriate, psychiatrists

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, basic life insurance, and stock options available for the hired applicant
• Twenty (20) vacation days, accrued over the year and eleven (11) paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Sixteen (16) weeks of parental leave for birthing parents will also be available for use after successful completion of 6 months of employment, eight (8) weeks of bonding leave for non-birthing parents
• Employees are able to enroll in our 401(k) plan and commuter benefits plan