Lead Therapist - Behavioral Health (Iowa)

At Heartland Family Service, we are committed to building a culture that is trauma informed and values and celebrates diversity and inclusion. We believe this allows for better service delivery and innovation, as it encourages our employees to bring various experiences and uniqueness to the workplace.

Trauma Informed Care is an approach to engaging people with histories of trauma that recognizes the presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledges the role that trauma has played in their lives.  Trauma Informed Care also acknowledges the effects of working with trauma survivors on our workforce and seeks to build collaborative and supportive working environments and relationships.

If you believe in our mission of creating healthy families and communities, and like a fast pace, collaborative and team-oriented environment, then Heartland Family Service is the agency for you. 

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF WORK

Unique opportunity to maintain a caseload of clients providing clinical support in an outpatient setting while also offering training, mentorship, leadership, expertise, and guidance to a team of clinicians who are growing their skills.

Compensation: between $56,500 and $71,400 (dependent on years of experience)
Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (40 hours per week)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assists with training new therapists in clinical and program procedures.
• Provides consultation and supervision for therapists when clinical supervisor is unavailable.
• Assists in overall program functioning such as client intake, discharge, and represents clinical staff in other avenues as needed.
• Ability to complete and train clinicians on evaluations with a diverse population of clients with co-occurring disorders utilizing evidence based practices.
• Establish and support clinicians on treatment plans, with client participation, which specifies treatment structure, outcomes, goals and objectives; within first 2 sessions.
• Provides counseling to individuals in group, couple, family, or individual settings, within the framework of the treatment plan and monitors progress and offers guidance to a team of clinicians on how to maintain.
• Completes of all case documentation for clinical and billing purposes; maintaining clinical records that meet established standards of timeliness and completeness and helps newer clinicians learn a sustainable practice.
• Handles cases of the highest degree of complexity.
• Collaborates with all programs within Heartland Family Service to have a better understanding of what they offer in order to support evaluation recommendations in Heartland’s continuation of care.
• *Is prompt and accurate in completing all required reports, statistics and other requirements.
• Meets clinical requirements of third party payers (authorizations, reviews, documentation) and provides information necessary for prompt and accurate billing.
• Provides mental health crisis intervention as needed.
• *Is dependable and punctual regarding scheduling and attendance.
• *Strive to make connections between the agency and the larger community whenever possible in order to contribute to the agency’s ongoing fundraising and friend-raising efforts.
• Essential functions of this job are to be performed on company physical work site or designated workspace.
• Abides by all specific program and Agency procedures, policies, and requirements.
• *Develops personal and program related skills through participation in internal and external training opportunities including printed material and audio and/or visual media.
• Creates, maintains and shares as appropriate a dynamic self-care plan and helps interns develop appropriate work life balance.
• Performs other program related duties as assigned.

                                                                                     *DENOTES ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s Degree
• License Eligible – LMHP; LIMHP; LMSW; LCSW
• LADC or CADC or substance abuse treatment experience preferred

What you’ll love about us:

At Heartland Family Service, we are committed to building a culture that is trauma informed and values and celebrates diversity and inclusion. We believe this allows for better service delivery and innovation, as it encourages our employees to bring various experiences and uniqueness to the workplace. When you work at Heartland Family Services, you will benefit from:

• Trauma Informed work environment
• Flexible Work Schedule
• Work From Home Option (for some positions)
• Clinical Supervision provided at no cost
• Employer paid training opportunities on Clinical topics, modalities, and Evidence-Based Practices
• Flexible Leave (between 20-25 days) 
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Educational loan assistance
• Health Insurance includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Voluntary Life Insurance, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, and Accidental coverage. 
• Paid FMLA (up to four weeks)
• 401K Retirement (up to 7% match)
• Casual Dress Environment
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Length of service cash awards

Salary : $56,500 - $71,400