Senior Clinician - KS

EDCare•Overland Park, KS

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Clinician role is a full-time position with a primary focus on overseeing and implementing therapeutic/clinical care and providing psychotherapy to patients across all levels of care. In addition to direct patient care, this role serves as a clinical resource for therapy services through staff training, curriculum development, professional supervision, and operational leadership support. The goal is to promote program consistency, staff development, and excellence in patient care. Initially, the Senior Clinician role will be approximately 0.5 FTE, with the remaining 0.5 FTE being covered by the employee's existing job description. A compensation increase of approximately 5-10% on top of the current base wage is anticipated.

Requirements

Master’s degree in behavioral science (social work, counseling, etc.) from an accredited university required.
Provisional or clinical license in relevant discipline required (LMSW, LSCSW, LPC, LCPC, LMFT, LCMFT, etc).
Good oral and written communication skills required.
Must have a basic understanding of the therapeutic process that patients experience during program hours.
Understand confidentiality laws.
Strong knowledge of professional ethics.
Must be able to demonstrate leadership abilities.
Must be able to work with persons from all educational and cultural backgrounds.
Must demonstrate tact, resourcefulness, independent thinking, enthusiasm, and non-judgmental attitude.

Nice To Haves

Experience working individually and in groups with eating disordered clients preferred.
Clinical conceptualization of the treatment of eating disorders and dual diagnosis preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as point person when Clinical Director is out of the office.
Provide leadership presence and support for PHP / IOP programming and coordinates efforts of clinical team to provide consistent, effective day to day treatment.
Assist Clinical Director in finding coverage for groups and meals.
Assist Clinical Director in completing and sending out weekly schedule.
Assist Clinical Director in ensuring all duties, policies and procedures are carried out correctly.
Provide individual therapy and POD groups when backup coverage is needed for Primary Clinicians.
Provide coverage of meals, snacks, groups, check-ins/outs, etc. when backup coverage is needed for Milieu Therapists.
Create effective relationships and be a liaison with other departments in creating and improving work processes.
Attend and document all staffing meetings when Clinical Director is not present and monitor treatment progress of PHP/IOP patients.
Phone coverage (answering the phones, transferring calls) as assigned/needed.
Reasonable availability for clinical consultation/questions via phone during all program hours.
Role models appropriate compliance to all milieu tasks and adherence to policy and procedures.
Supports clinical leadership in the implementation of and adherence to rules, policies, and procedures.
Takes ownership, in collaboration with program director, for training of new staff.
Provides supervision of pre-licensed clinicians and/or student interns in absence of Clinical Director (when appropriate).
Completes quarterly chart audits on other Primary Clinicians in the absence of Clinical Director.
Oversee and implement all aspects of therapeutic/clinical care and provide psychotherapy to patients across all levels of care.
Serve as a clinical resource for therapy services through staff training, curriculum development, professional supervision, and operational leadership support.