Psychotherapy Team Lead (Remote)

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. Depending on the needs of the clinic, this role may or may not have direct reports.

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

• Experience conducting psychotherapy via telehealth

• Qualified Supervisor certification in Florida

Supervisory Responsibilities 

• May co-supervise Psychotherapy staff and/or MSW interns in this role. 

Work Environment 

Employees will work from their homes, utilizing virtual tools and software to manage tasks, communicate with team members, patients and other stakeholders. They will also complete administrative duties on a computer provided by the company. 

Physical Demands 

This role requires sitting for extended periods of time in front of a computer screen. 

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

Full-time minimum 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday

Other Duties

Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Author Health is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. It is the company’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. The company’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. 

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible experience for all applicants. If you require any accommodations at any stage of the process, please let us know. 

The company is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. In accordance with applicable legal requirements such as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Author Health will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.