LCSW - REMOTE

This is a remote position.

Job Details

• Fully Remote
  
• Virtual Home-Based Cardiac Rehab start-up
  
• Full Time - Direct Hire - Permanent Position
  
• Mon-Fri with some evening availability
  
• Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits
  
• Work is meaningful and fulfilling
  

Our company is building a virtual-first, home-based cardiac rehab (CR) solution that provides a comprehensive set of tools to educate, rehabilitate, and empower heart disease patients to live the lives they aspire to live, and in doing so, reduce their lifetime all-cause mortality risk by 50%.

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and one of our first clinical team hires, you will be responsible for assessing patient behavioral health, developing/managing a personalized care plan tailored to their specific behavioral health needs, and coordinating their care across Our Company’s and the Health System’s care team. You will be a part of an integrated team of clinical professionals including Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Exercise Physiologists working together to deliver a world class patient experience.

If you are passionate about changing lives on a large scale, we look forward to hearing from you!

• Participate in the design and launch of our company’s comprehensive, evidence-based virtual-first cardiac recovery program
  
• Provide virtual psychotherapy (45-50 min per session) to a panel of patients
  
• Evaluate patient symptoms and risk factors to determine diagnoses and develop individualized treatment plans
  
• Ensure that treatment plans are supported by standard practices and/or current literature
  
• Follow plan of care to accomplish functions within established policies, procedures and scope of practice
  
• Re-evaluate treatment plans, as needed, to ensure safety and maximum patient benefit
  
• Promote patient engagement, and successfully achieve patient and program goals
  
• Make independent judgments and change to treatment according to professional and regulatory standards
  
• Counsel patients using behavioral change techniques (ex. mindfulness, motivational interviewing)
  
• Communicate effectively across Our Company’s integrated clinical team and our partner health systems, escalating unusual and emergent situations
  
• Provide complete, accurate and timely documentation of patient sessions
  

Skills/Traits

• An innovative mindset, and willingness to challenge status quo of traditional cardiac rehab experience
  
• Experience working within integrated clinical teams focusing on heart and vascular chronic disease management
  
• A passion for 1:1 patient counseling and driving patient behavior change ○ Understanding of relevant patient educational content and techniques (ex. Meditation, breath work, etc.) used in psychotherapy
  
• Excellent relationship building and communication skills with the ability to talk to many different cultural groups
  
• Positive energy, patience and trustworthiness
  
• Effective and empathetic communication skills across phone, video and asynchronous messaging
  
• Ability to work in an agile start-up environment
  
• A willingness to travel at least once per quarter for in-person team meetings
  

Education/Certification/Licenses

• Must be a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) preferably in the state of Illinois
  
• Willingness to obtain licensure in additional states
  
• Master’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology or related field
  
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in practicing CBT
  
• Experience in Cardiac Health a plus