Hybrid Inpatient & Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) Clinician

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Elizabethtown (KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

Maternity/Paternity leave

Bereavement leave (pets)

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a Licensed Therapist for a hybrid role spanning inpatient and Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) settings. The clinician leads the IOP, conducts assessments, provides therapy, discharge planning, and care coordination for hospitalized patients.

Role requires Kentucky licensure and adherence to CMS and state regulations. The position emphasizes crisis intervention, treatment planning, documentation, and collaboration, with on-call duties possible for crises.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology or related behavioral field from a school accredited by the CSWE.
• Current Kentucky licensure: Independent clinician (LCSW, LPCC, LMFT, LPA), Provisionally licensed clinician (CSW, LPCA) or Addiction specialist (LCADC).
• Three years of experience required (experience including group facilitation).

Responsibilities

• Lead therapist for the IOP and provide clinical assessment, therapy, discharge planning, and care coordination for hospitalized patients.
• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based behavioral health services in inpatient and IOP settings.
• Adhere to Kentucky laws, facility policies, and CMS/regulatory requirements; may include on-call crisis consultation.
• Collaborate with team to ensure comprehensive, coordinated care.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Assessment

Treatment planning

Documentation

Communication

Collaboration

Organizational skills

CBT

DBT

Trauma-informed care

Education

Master’s degree in social work, counseling, or psychology

Tools

EHR systems

Outcome measurement tools

Job description

Summary Job Description: Licensed Therapist - Hybrid Inpatient & Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) Clinician Full-time, second shift

Job Description: The hybrid role combines responsibilities in both the inpatient and intensive outpatient (IOP) settings. The clinician serves as a lead therapist for the IOP while also providing clinical assessment, therapy, discharge planning, and care coordination for hospitalized patients. The position ensures delivery of high-quality, evidence-based behavioral health services and compliance with Kentucky laws, facility policies, and all regulatory standards. Clinical services provided in inpatient and intensive outpatient program (IOP) settings must be performed within the clinician’s professional licensure, scope of practice under Kentucky law, and credentialing privileges. When functioning in the IOP program, the clinician will provide services as part of the structured outpatient treatment program under physician oversight and in accordance with CMS and Kentucky regulatory requirements for intensive outpatient behavioral health services. Must possess strong skills in crisis intervention, assessment, treatment planning, documentation along with excellent communication, collaboration and organizational skills. Knowledge of evidence-based therapies (i.e. CBT, DBT, trauma‑formed care) required. On‑call duties may be required for crisis consultation.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology or related behavioral field from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education required.
• Current Kentucky licensure: Independent clinician (LCSW, LPCC, LMFT, LPA), Provisionally licensed clinician (CSW, LPCA) or Addiction specialist (LCADC).
• Provisionally licensed clinicians must maintain supervision arrangements consistent with Kentucky licensing board requirements.
• Three years of experience required (experience including group facilitation).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience coordinating an IOP.
• Experience working with co‑occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
• Familiarity with EHR systems and outcome measurement tools.

Benefits:

Tuition Assistance reimbursement program Company paid Maternity and Paternity leave Bereavement Leave (includes pets) Paid Time Off available upon hire Employee Assistance Program

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full‑spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410‑bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40‑bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug‑free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre‑employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll‑free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.