Salma Health

Salma Health

Therapist - IOP (Part-time)

California - Remote · Director · Part-time

Work authorization required$70k-$80kDetected 56 days ago
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About the role

  • In this role, clinicians ensure that every patient receives continuous, individualized care.
  • Location/Schedule Remote in California - PT - M/W/F - 24hrs Key Responsibilities - Patient Engagement & Orientation: Conduct IOP orientations for new patients, introducing program structure, expectations, and resources.
  • By combining cutting-edge science with human understanding, we're creating a new model of care that replaces fragmentation with connection and uncertainty with clarity.

Responsibilities

  • Care Coordination & Discharge Planning: Lead discharge planning beginning at admission, ensuring linkage to outpatient providers, community resources, and payor-approved step-down services.
  • Conduct collateral sessions with patients to support transition and continuity.
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Participate in weekly case conferences, contributing psychosocial and systems-level insights to treatment planning. Provide clinical support and advocacy to ensure seamless care for this patient population.
  • Outcomes & Quality: Track engagement, discharge, and readmission metrics; report trends to the Clinic IOP Director for quality-improvement initiatives. Implement corrective actions to improve retention, discharge quality, and community integration.
  • Safety & Crisis Support: Assist in updating safety plans and activating crisis escalation pathways as needed. Provide documentation that meets licensure, accreditation, and payor requirements.
  • Lead discharge planning beginning at admission, ensuring linkage to outpatient providers, community resources, and payor-approved step-down services.
  • Provide clinical support and advocacy to ensure seamless care for this patient population.
  • Implement corrective actions to improve retention, discharge quality, and community integration.
  • Indirect Patient Contact (IPC) & Compliance: Document collateral contacts, discharge coordination, and case management activities in compliance with CMS and commercial payor standards.
  • Group & Clinical Support: Facilitate psychotherapy, process and skills-based groups (e.g., DBT skills, relapse prevention).

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of experience working as a Licensed practitioner.
  • Strong working knowledge of evidence-based treatments for mood, anxiety, trauma and dual diagnosis.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with acute psychiatric presentations, risk, and safety planning.
  • Experience providing case management in addition to holding a clinical case load of acute adults
  • Proven ability to thrive in milieu-based clinical environments.
  • Previous experience working in an IOP, PHP, crisis residential and/ or in patient psychiatric hospital settings.
  • Practice at the cutting edge of psychiatry-integrating psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and interventional treatments.
  • Contribute to the growth and innovation of specialty psychiatric programs in Orange County.

Skills

  • Facilitate psychotherapy, process and skills-based groups (e.g., DBT skills, relapse prevention).
  • Provide clinical coverage for group sessions or therapeutic check-ins during staff absences, within scope of licensure.

Compensation

  • The compensation for this position is $70,000 - $80,000 annually for 24 hours weekly as a part-time employee.

Benefits

  • Ensure IPC is properly captured for utilization review and reimbursement audits.
  • We reserve the right to modify benefit offerings at any time, in accordance with applicable laws.

Company info

  • Salma Health is reimagining brain healthcare. We bring together advanced diagnostics, evidence-based treatments, and continuous support under one connected system-so every person can receive the right care at the right moment.
  • Our multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychiatrists, therapists, and technologists work together to deliver personalized, compassionate care for people living with brain and mental health conditions. By combining cutting-edge science with human understanding, we're creating a new model of care that replaces fragmentation with connection and uncertainty with clarity.
  • Headquartered in California, Salma Health is expanding access to innovative brain health care across the U.S., beginning with clinics in San Diego and Orange County, with Bay Area and Los Angeles clinics opening soon.
  • Compensation & Benefits
  • Salma Health is reimagining brain healthcare.
  • We bring together advanced diagnostics, evidence-based treatments, and continuous support under one connected system-so every person can receive the right care at the right moment.
  • Our multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychiatrists, therapists, and technologists work together to deliver personalized, compassionate care for people living with brain and mental health conditions.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity & Accessibility Statement
  • If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact us directly-we're happy to help.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Sponsorship for employment authorization may be considered on a case-by-case basis depending on the role and candidate qualifications.
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