Colorado Licensed Psychologist or Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Clinical Insomnia Specialist (Colorado Licensed Psychologist or Clinical Social Worker)

We are looking for a licensed clinical psychologist or licensed clinical social worker with a passion for personal professional development, a passion for equitable access to care, and a desire to partner with individual patients to overcome sleep disorders and related problems. Although prior experience in the management of sleep disorders is appreciated, we are more interested in hiring an individual who gets excited by the challenge of developing into a specialist capable of delivering world class care.

1. The primary responsibility of this position is to provide clinical evaluation and treatment to individual patients using The Insomnia Clinic assessment and treatment models and processes.
2. Additional responsibilities include community and professional education about sleep, sleep disorders, and The Insomnia Clinic services through public speaking and writing.
3. Continuous weekly professional development toward expertise in the evidence-based management of sleep disorders and related conditions is also an essential responsibility.

Compensation Structure:

We offer a competitive hybrid compensation model that includes both a guaranteed base salary and shared revenue. This structure provides financial stability while rewarding productivity and clinical impact. Clinicians receive a consistent base salary, with the opportunity to earn additional income through a percentage of collected revenue above a set threshold. This model is designed to support a sustainable work-life balance while also offering strong earning potential for those who choose to build a fuller caseload. Our transparent and supportive compensation structure aligns with our values of fairness, autonomy, and professional growth.

Responsibilities

1. Living out our core values:
   1. Joyful Balanced Living - We work together to create a company culture and structure that prizes faith, family, friends, fitness, and fun.
   2. Company Culture of Committed Community - Self-managed and self-motivated stakeholders who live well by doing good. Individuals who think, make decisions, carry responsibility, take ownership, be creative, and solve problems.
   3. Partnering with Patients - While most of the healthcare and health education industry is focused on impersonal and low intensity sleep services and products, we offer patients a personal connection with a sleep expert who walks with them through the process of recovery.
   4. Bridging the Practice Gap - Health or dysfunction in the domain of sleep has significant consequences for overall health, function, and quality of life. However, research on current practice patterns indicate that as many as 80% to 90% of sleep disturbances go undiagnosed and untreated. This discrepancy between knowledge and practice is termed the practice gap and we want to shrink through the work we do.
   5. Reducing Pharmaceutical Harm - The harm associated with use of prescription sleep aids is well documented. We strive to educate providers and patients that there is an effective evidence-based alternative to pharmacotherapy. We also provide prescribers and individuals with a clear pathway to reducing or eliminating prescription sleep aid use while maintaining healthy sleep.
   6. Remarkable Patient Experiences - Carefully crafting our interventions, processes, and procedures with the patient experience in mind.
   7. Cultivating Expertise - We encourage and support continuous professional growth of all team members with a focus on aligning personal goals and interests with company vision, mission, and values.
   8. Evidence-Based and Innovative - We use evidence-based strategies when available. Courageously and ethically explore new strategies when evidence-based strategies are unavailable or ineffective.
2. Living out our vision and mission:
   1. Vision - Enrich lives by reducing the burden of sleep disturbance on individuals, families, industry, and society.
   2. Mission - Grow a team of sleep experts who partner with individuals to overcome the problem of poor sleep and live their best life through development and delivery of innovative sleep training and treatment programs.
3. Have the mindset of an “owner.” We are all “Stakeholders” (fully committed and engaged staff), and no matter how many hours you spend with us, you’re as much a part of what we do as anyone. You need to have that mindset – you are an incredibly valuable part of our team and our patients will get to know you and lean on you.
4. Have the mindset of an Adult. We’re not looking for someone who needs to be told what to do, when to show up, what time recess is, and when they can go home. We’re looking for someone who, once you have learned the job, is a self-managed, self-motivated adult who knows what we want, and enjoys taking the bull by the horns to get it done, without being watched, managed or directed. We all work together to get things done, and we need someone who will join us as an equal team member, not as an “underling” or employee/child.
5. Enthusiastically participate in the formal Insomnia Specialist training program. This includes a 30-60-day initial training period and ongoing continuous professional development. The initial training combines clinical observation, one-to-one clinical training, and self-directed reading and digital learning focused on developing basic knowledge and competencies in the specialty of Behavioral Sleep Medicine. The continuous professional development includes individual clinical supervision, peer consultation, training by external experts, and ongoing self-directed reading and digital learning.
6. Clinical evaluation. Guide new patients through our Guided Sleep Discovery process using structured clinical interviewing techniques, standardized questionnaires, wrist actigraphy, salivary melatonin testing, and formal psychological testing.
7. Assessment and treatment planning. Using information gained through the Guided Sleep Discovery process, develop an appropriate plan for assessment and treatment to include utilizing internal and external resources and referrals as appropriate.
8. Implement clinical treatment. Deliver evidence-based, neurobiologically informed treatment for sleep disorders and related conditions. The primary therapeutic orientation of The Insomnia Clinic is cognitive-behavioral (CBT) and we are looking for someone who is a “true believer” in this orientation. In situations where evidence-based practices are unavailable or ineffective, an integrative and exploratory approach is strongly encouraged.
9. Sales. About 50% of our patients pay for our services out of pocket. We believe the value of our services and the problems we help solve far exceeds the fees we charge. As a primary provider of clinical and educational services you will have the responsibility to communicate this value in a compelling way to prospective patients. If you have a mindset that people don’t have the ability to pay for healthcare or question the value of your work, this is not the job for you.
10. Telehealth. Delivery of clinical evaluation and treatment through telephone and video using our telecommunications systems and software.
11. Educational workshops and presentations. As part of the stepped-care model we use, you will teach brief educational workshops to patients. As part of our value of “Bridging the Practice Gap,” you will also deliver presentations to healthcare providers and community groups.
12. Work schedule. You will choose your own work schedule and availability for seeing patients and handle entering your availability in the scheduling software.
13. Appointment scheduling. You will be responsible for scheduling most of your own appointments.
14. Coverage During Absence of Clinic Colleagues. Provide support for patients of insomnia clinic colleagues while they are out of the office. This may take the form of routine communications, appointment scheduling, and a variety of other patient related tasks.
15. Systems and Process Mindset. You will be given a system of how to do the various aspects of your job. You need to be able to work with that system. Once you learn it, you will teach patients our system and you will help decide how to improve it. We want you to be thinking about how to make things more efficient while serving our patients, team, and company in the best way possible.
16. Results-Based work ethic. Part of our mission and values is to partner with individuals to overcome the problem of poor sleep to help them live their best life and, in doing so, provide them with an exceptional experience. With these aspects of our mission and values in mind, you will be responsible for producing and tracking a high level of patient outcomes and satisfaction.
17. Learn and use software and equipment. We use a variety of software systems and programs to support communication, information management, scheduling, and other aspects of daily operations. You will be provided equipment such as a laptop, telephone, etc. and access to necessary software.
18. Patient communication. Part of partnering with patients and providing remarkable patient experiences is being available to patients between appointments.

How to Apply for this Position

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