Clinic Manager and Clinician
Required skills
- Michigan clinical license
- LMSW
- LPC
- LMFT
- LP
- Psychotherapy
- Assessment
- Diagnosis
- Treatment Planning
- Risk Assessment
Nice to have
- Clinical leadership experience
- Operational leadership experience
- Recruiting experience
- Onboarding experience
- Performance management experience
- Billing experience
Role summary
Ellie Mental Health–Clarkston is seeking an independently licensed clinician and experienced leader to serve as Clinical Manager. This is a hybrid role involving direct patient care and leadership responsibilities. The Clinical Manager will maintain an active therapy caseload, provide evidence-based psychotherapy, and manage daily clinic operations, staff support, quality improvement, and practice growth. Key duties include conducting assessments, creating treatment plans, completing clinical documentation, coordinating staff meetings, assisting with HR functions like recruiting and performance reviews, overseeing clinic technology, ensuring compliance with regulations (HIPAA, Michigan licensing), and supporting practice growth initiatives through community engagement and marketing. Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and EHR systems is required, with Valant experience preferred. Previous leadership experience and familiarity with billing/credentialing are also preferred.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Flexible work from home options available.
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