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Psychotherapy Team Lead (Remote)

At Author Health, we’re revolutionizing how mental health care is delivered, and we want you to be part of it! Our mission is to bring compassionate, high-quality care to people with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and dementia, including older adults.

We don’t just treat symptoms. We treat people — fully, holistically, and with heart! Through our virtual-first, innovative care model, we deliver community-based wrap-around outpatient mental health care inclusive of psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and care management services. We partner with primary care providers, hospitals, families, and caregivers to keep patients out of the hospital and empower them to live healthier, more connected lives.

At Author, inclusivity isn’t a checkbox. It’s how we build trust and drive better outcomes! We honor the unique cultures, identities, and stories that shape every patient’s experience, and we’re creating a workplace where team members can show up as their full selves, too.

If you’re driven by purpose, ready to shake up the status quo, and eager to make a real impact in people’s lives, we’d love to meet you. Let’s build the future of mental health care together!

Summary/Objective 

As a Psychotherapy Team Lead, you are a key player in contributing to the smooth operation and high quality of our clinical services. This position is designed for a skilled LCSW who is passionate about both direct clinical work and contributing to the broader success of a mental health organization. You have the opportunity to utilize your expertise to support other clinicians, manage clinical projects, and help shape our policies and procedures. The Director has the discretion to assign tasks, which may include leading pilot initiatives, 1:1 supervision and assisting with the interviewing and onboarding of new staff. 

Essential Functions

Serves as a Team Lead for 7-10 Psychotherapists with key responsibilities as follows:

Direct Patient Care (50%-80%)

• Provide virtual-first psychosocial assessments and psychotherapy to individuals with serious mental illness; facilitate patient engagement and follow-up care 

• Provide audio-only follow-up sessions in the event of technical issues or if the patient is unable to access video technology.

• Provide time-framed, goal-focused, skill-based psychotherapy using evidence-based techniques (including CBT, solution-focused treatment, motivational interviewing, behavioral activation, and others)

• Document treatment response and monitor clinical symptoms

• Provide support and advocacy to caregivers and family members of patients with dementia and serious mental illness as needed

• Lead/facilitate support groups and group therapy

• As part of a multidisciplinary care team, identify social determinants of health needs that team members will work to resolve

• Serve a crucial role on a multidisciplinary care team of psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, community health workers, and medical assistants; participate in huddles and multidisciplinary communication

Operational and Administrative Duties (20-50%) including but not limited to:

• Assist Clinical Operations team in addressing and reducing administrative errors, thus allowing more patient-facing time for clinicians 

• Address time-sensitive coverage needs due to callouts and STAT/urgent calls

• Facilitate clinician matching and oversight for intern shadowing

• Support workflow processes for team and company initiatives

• Co-Lead Weekly LCSW Staff Meetings 

• Interviewing and onboarding new staff

Competency Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Comfort working in a startup environment with a rapidly growing and evolving team

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in a team setting

• Ability to maintain effective and professional relationships with patients and other members of the care team

• Ability to effectively engage patients and their caregivers in a therapeutic relationship

• Ability to work with patients via telehealth platform and via telephone

• Working knowledge of differential diagnosis of common mental health and/or substance use disorders, when appropriate

• Working knowledge of evidence-based psychosocial treatments and brief behavioral interventions for common mental health disorders, when appropriate (e.g., motivational interviewing, problem-solving treatment, behavioral activation)

Required Education and Experience 

• At least 1-2  years experience leading/supporting clinical teams and/or daily operations of a clinic

• Experience with screening for common mental health and/or substance use disorders

• Experience with assessment and treatment planning for common mental health and/or substance use disorders

• LCSW/LMHC licensed in Florida or ability to become licensed in Florida and other states as required by the company

Preferred Education and Experience 

• 5-7 years of direct care clinical experience

• Experience with collaborative care

• Bilingual (Spanish-English and/or Haitian-Creole/English) 

• LCSW licensed in Texas or ability to become licensed in Texas