Our Commitment to Our Care Team
Blackbird Health is clinician-founded, owned, and operated. We believe that in order to fulfill our ambitious mission of supporting children with the very best care, we must build the best possible care team. If you care deeply about helping others and are eager to join a collaborative, innovative community where you will be encouraged and supported to thrive both personally and professionally, Blackbird is a great place to advance your career. Our clinicians are integral to the success of our patients and our mission, and we are excited to welcome more compassionate, inspired thought leaders to our growing clinical team.
We want your time here to be the most meaningful of your career. Join us, and help change mental health care for kids for the better.
Blackbird’s Mission
Our mission at Blackbird is to provide precision care with powerful outcomes for children, adolescents, and young adults struggling with social developmental and school-related challenges. We believe that our youth deserve the very best care, not only for their physical health but also their mental health. Through an integrated community-centered care approach, our skilled clinical team delivers exceptional virtual and in-person care across a wide range of specialties.
Why You’ll Love Working at Blackbird:
- Remote work model – telehealth
- Competitive, comprehensive benefits package, including medical and dental coverage (available day 1 of employment), 401k (with a company match), and employer-paid life insurance coverage
- Generous PTO, including time off for professional development/CEU's
- Excellent administrative support so you can focus on your patients, including full credentialing services
- Weekly clinical consultations and ample time for supervision: this is paid time for all providers
- Supportive work culture, clinical development, and trainings
- Integrated clinician-led leadership team that emphasizes the importance for interdisciplinary care and the unique perspective of our different care team members
- Opportunities to support your professional growth as our organization grows, regardless of what career growth looks like to you
- Our team is made up of intelligent, humble, compassionate, and hardworking people. Joining us means you'll have an automatic network to turn to for best practices, professional development, and opportunities to share your expertise
About the Role
As a Blackbird Psychotherapist, you will:
- Provide evidence-based psychotherapy services by meeting with patients regularly to provide counseling, individualized treatment and adjust treatment plans as necessary
- Evaluate new clients through biopsychosocial/diagnostic assessments
- Invest in your patient relationships by establishing positive, trusting rapport with patients
- Because we must work within a child’s school schedule, we incentivize our clinicians to provide availability during Blackbird's core after-school hours
- Collaborate with other specialty providers (i.e., CRNPs, EF Coaches, Speech therapists) to establish an Integrated Treatment Plan
- Comply with minimum clinical time expectations per week after onboarding and acclimation to the role
- Conduct ongoing assessments of patient progress and maintain thorough records of patient meetings and progress
- Involve and advise family members or outside specialists when appropriate
About You
You will be a great fit for our team if you have:
- A passion for our mission to redefine behavioral health for children and their families
- Experience providing direct psychotherapy services to children and/or adolescents is desired
- Outstanding communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with patients, provider partners, and colleagues
- Openness to professional and clinical feedback and interested in working in a supporting and collegial clinical environment.
- Appreciative of the value of operating in a collaborative and cooperative environment.
- Ability to show initiative, good judgment, and resourcefulness.
Qualifications
- Active licensure in Pennsylvania as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist or PsyD is required.
*The target range for this position is $70,000 - $90,000. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors, including licensure, experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.
FOSTERING AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT:
Blackbird is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and belonging. We are able to grow and learn better together with a diverse team of employees. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. Blackbird provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.
