Early Childhood Outpatient Lead Clinician

Job Details

Job Location:

McPherson, KS 67460

Position Type:
Full Time

Location:

Newton, KS

Schedule:

Full-Time | Monday - Friday (Day Shift, Flexible Hours)

As the Clinical Lead, you will provide administrative and clinical oversight to our outpatient team while maintaining a reduced clinical caseload (approximately 15 direct client hours per week). You will mentor clinical staff, drive quality improvement, support professional development, and ensure smooth operational workflow within the clinic.

• Clinical Leadership & Supervision:
  Provide direct supervision, guidance, and ongoing feedback to clinical staff. Conduct annual performance reviews, coordinate team trainings, foster high morale, and interpret organizational policies for the team.
• Direct Clinical Care:
  Deliver individual and family psychotherapy, comprehensive evaluations, psychological testing, and case consultations across a diverse lifespan (children, adolescents, adults, and older adults).
• Quality Assurance & Compliance:
  Oversee documentation standards and quality improvement initiatives (QAPI). Ensure timely completion of progress notes, evaluations, and psychological testing reports according to facility guidelines.
• Interdisciplinary
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Coordinate with referral sources, treatment teams, and utilization review staff to ensure smooth authorization and continuity of care.
• Community Education & Development:
  Lead occasional educational workshops for professional and public audiences, maintain required Kansas QMHP licensure, and participate in ongoing continuing education.

• Minimum Education:
  
  Social worker, Psychologist, Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist; independently licensed by the Behavioral Sciences Review Board (BSRB) in the State of Kansas
• Minimum Experience:
  
  History of working in a mental health Therapy/Assessment capacity and minimum of one year of supervisory or relevant experience.
• Must demonstrate skill and competence working with individuals, families, and groups, utilizing a combination of modalities and treatment approaches, such as cognitive, supportive, behavioral, and psychodynamic
• Must have good listening skills, verbal skills, and written communication skills
• Must have good diagnostic skills and quality documentation skills
• Must maintain CEs and Kansas State licensure
• Must be able to communicate effectively with referral sources and external care providers
• Must be credentialed by Prairie View to do evaluations, individual psychotherapy, family therapy, group therapy, and collateral consultations with children, adolescents, adults and older adults
• Must be proficient at basic keyboarding/word-processing skills
• Must be able to pass Kansas Bureau of Investigation Screen and the Central Registry Screen for both adults and children