Clinic Manager and Clinician

Ellie Mental Health-Capital Region NY; Clarkston (MI); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Opportunity for advancement

Paid time off

Training & development

401(k)

Flexible schedule

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Job summary

Ellie Mental Health–Clarkston is seeking a licensed clinician to serve as Clinical Manager, combining direct therapy with leadership responsibilities. This full-time, W-2 role requires maintaining an active caseload while guiding staff, improving quality, and overseeing operations from 9 to 7, Monday through Friday.

We offer competitive compensation with a wide benefits package, including health and 401(k), plus flexible scheduling.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in counseling, social work, psychology, or a related behavioral-health field.
• Current, unrestricted Michigan clinical license in good standing (LMSW, LPC, LMFT, or LP).
• Ability and willingness to maintain an active therapy caseload while performing management duties.
• Experience with psychotherapy, assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, risk assessment, and documentation.
• Knowledge of Michigan behavioral-health regulations, HIPAA, and documentation requirements.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the required caseload and appointment availability.
• Conduct assessments, establish diagnoses, create treatment plans, and provide evidence-based psychotherapy.
• Complete notes, treatment plans, risk documentation, and other records accurately and on time.
• Respond to referrals, support retention, and follow up after cancellations.
• Provide ethical, inclusive care within professional scope and competence.

Skills

Leadership

Caseload management

Communication

Time management

Problem-solving

Documentation

Education

Master’s degree or higher

Michigan license (LMSW/LPC/LMFT/LP)

Tools

Valant

Microsoft 365

EHR systems

Job description

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Opportunity for advancement
• Paid time off
• Training & development
• 401(k)
• Flexible schedule
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance

Clinical Manager and Therapist – Full-Time

Ellie Mental Health–Clarkston is an independently owned practice providing in-person and telehealth care throughout Michigan. Our team is guided by authenticity, compassion, creativity, humor, acceptance, and determination.

We seek an independently licensed clinician and experienced leader to serve as Clinical Manager. This is a working clinical-leadership position—not an administrative-only role. The Clinical Manager must provide outpatient therapy, maintain an assigned caseload, and complete related clinical responsibilities while supporting staff, daily operations, quality, and practice growth.

Compensation And Caseload

This is a W-2 position with compensation reflecting both clinical and assigned management responsibilities. The compensation structure, leadership allocation, and required clinical caseload will be reviewed during the interview and documented in the offer letter.

Maintaining an active caseload is an essential function of this position. The Clinical Manager must consistently meet established client-facing expectations while reliably completing leadership duties.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Maintain the required caseload and appointment availability
• Conduct assessments, establish diagnoses, create treatment plans, and provide evidence-based psychotherapy
• Complete notes, treatment plans, risk documentation, and other records accurately and on time
• Respond to referrals, support retention, and follow up after cancellations
• Provide ethical, inclusive care within professional scope and competence

Leadership and Team Support

• Conduct biweekly clinician meetings addressing caseloads, availability, documentation, productivity, and performance
• Support accountability, professional development, employee engagement, and performance-improvement efforts
• Coordinate staff meetings, case consultation, training, and internal communication
• Assist with recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, performance reviews, and offboarding
• Support interns and limited-license clinicians as assigned
• Provide leadership coverage and respond promptly to staff and client concerns

Clinic Operations and Compliance

• Coordinate staffing and help ensure clinic coverage from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday
• Monitor scheduling availability and support clinicians in meeting caseload expectations
• Manage operational requests, leadership task lists, facilities, supplies, workflows, and assigned projects
• Oversee Valant, scheduling tools, iPlum, the receptionist application, and related technology
• Support clinical standards, ethical care, documentation compliance, and quality improvement
• Help maintain compliance with Michigan licensing, Medicare, Ellie, HIPAA, and clinic requirements
• Conduct policy and workflow audits and help update handbooks and procedures
• Investigate and respond appropriately to client grievances
• Coordinate with billing and credentialing partners regarding enrollment, insurance aging, patient balances, and service-line corrections

Practice Growth

• Support clinician recruitment and clinic-capacity planning
• Coordinate community engagement, networking, referral development, and outreach
• Assist with marketing, social media, Uberall, newsletters, and public relations
• Monitor performance data and identify opportunities to improve access, retention, revenue, and operations
• Support grant applications, funding reports, and other approved growth initiatives

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in counseling, social work, psychology, or a related behavioral-health field
• Current, unrestricted Michigan clinical license in good standing, such as LMSW, LPC, LMFT, or LP
• Ability and willingness to maintain an active therapy caseload while performing management duties
• Experience with psychotherapy, assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, risk assessment, and documentation
• Demonstrated leadership, organization, sound judgment, problem-solving, and follow-through
• Knowledge of Michigan behavioral-health regulations, ethical standards, HIPAA, and documentation requirements
• Ability to address performance concerns directly and professionally
• Strong communication, time-management, interpersonal, and conflict-resolution skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and EHR systems; Valant experience is preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous clinical or operational leadership experience
• Experience with recruiting, onboarding, performance management, billing, credentialing, or private-practice operations
• Experience supervising interns or limited-license clinicians
• Familiarity with Power BI, ADP, Valant, iPlum, and payer compliance

Benefits

• Paid time off and holiday pay
• Health and short-term disability coverage for eligible employees
• 401(k) eligibility for full-time employees, subject to plan requirements
• Flexible scheduling
• Free annual continuing education opportunities
• Furnished office and administrative support

We are excited to meet your authentic self. BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ clinicians are encouraged to apply.

Flexible work from home options available.

Compensation: $72,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year

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?