Therapist - LCSW

Overview

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%. By leveraging technology and evidence-based care plans that are infused into a behavioral change framework, Our Company’s virtual CR program reduces barriers to care and effectively addresses patients’ physical and mental health needs from home. By extending CR services to eligible patients that hospital outpatient-based programs do not have capacity for, Our Company allows Health Systems to serve a broader patient base and gain a new profit center. Further, our clinical model has the flexibility to scale across all heart and vascular service lines and beyond, reducing mortality risk for the chronic disease patients who need this care the most! About the Role As 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! What you’ll do: ● 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 What you’ll bring to the table: 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/Certifications/Licenses ○ Illinois (preferred) LCSW license from an accredited program (and willingness to obtain licensure in additional states) ○ Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in practicing CBT ○ BSc in Psychology, or related field ○ Experience in Cardiac Health a plus

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher
• Valid Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois (IL)
• Digital Healthcare (3+ years)
• Have you ever worked for a start-up?
• Valid Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
• 2+ years of experience in ANY of the following:
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Mindfulness
• Counseling Adult/Geriatric Patients (3+ years)
• Chronic Pain Management (2+ years)
• Hospice (2+ years)

• Describe your experience working with/for a Heathcare start-up.
• Describe your experience building out curriculum.

Company

Our client 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%. If you are passionate about helping patients live their best lives, we look forward to hearing from you!