Virtual Intake Mental Health Therapist (Part-Time)

The Problem Severe mental illness affects over 15 million adults in the United States. These are the conditions the rest of healthcare has systematically failed to build for. What makes this problem different from most of healthcare is that the tools to solve it do not exist. The clinical protocols, the measurement science, the precision medicine, the technology to deliver coordinated longitudinal outpatient care for this population. This is a frontier problem, and it requires frontier science and care delivery to solve. The care, the science, the technology. Severe mental illness affects over 15 million adults in the United States. These are the conditions the rest of healthcare has systematically failed to build for. What makes this problem different from most of healthcare is that the tools to solve it do not exist. The clinical protocols, the measurement science, the precision medicine, the technology to deliver coordinated longitudinal outpatient care for this population. This is a frontier problem, and it requires frontier science and care delivery to solve. The care, the science, the technology. Amae Health is a Series B, venture-backed Public Benefit Corporation that delivers specialty outpatient care for people living with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar I disorder, and treatment-resistant depression. We design and operate high-acuity, in-person clinics across the United States. Our model integrates psychiatry, therapy, primary care, dietitians, and community health workers under one roof to deliver coordinated, longitudinal care for a population that has historically been fragmented across systems. Leading health systems collaborate with Amae to bring this model to their communities, including NewYork-Presbyterian, Cedars-Sinai, Mass General Brigham, Novant Health, and CommonSpirit Health . Our investors include health systems such as Cedars-Sinai and CommonSpirit Health, organizations that evaluated our model clinically and chose to back it. Many clinicians who join Amae have worked in PHPs, IOPs, inpatient psychiatry, or community mental health. Integrated care, not a referral network. Psychiatrists, therapists, primary care providers, dietitians, and community health workers work side-by-side and share responsibility for the same patients. Through our partnership with Mass General Brigham, clinicians receive ongoing training, supervision, and mentorship in evidence-based SMI care. Advancing the field. We are hiring a part-time (24 hours/week) Virtual Intake Therapist to serve as the clinical front door for prospective members across our California clinics. This is a fully virtual, licensed clinical role responsible for conducting comprehensive intake assessments and determining the right course of care for individuals living with serious mental illness (SMI). You'll conduct the clinical intake assessment — biopsychosocial history, mental status exam, risk assessment, diagnostic impression and level of care determination — and make the call: is this person a fit for Amae's integrated SMI care model, and if so, which clinic and care team should take them on? This role centralizes and standardizes the intake function that today lives with individual Clinic Directors, giving prospective members a faster, more consistent front door across every California clinic. Comprehensive Virtual Intake Assessment - Conduct virtual biopsychosocial assessments, mental status exams, and risk assessments for individuals inquiring about Amae's services. Level of Care & Fit Determination - Determine whether Amae's integrated SMI care model is clinically appropriate for the prospective member, and determine their qualification to join our PHP or IOP programs. Diagnostic Impressions - Develop diagnostic impressions and preliminary treatment recommendations to hand off to the receiving clinic's care team. Clinic Coordination - Interface with Clinic Directors and care teams across California regarding patient appropriateness and readiness for programming, ensuring a smooth warm hand-off. Represent Amae’s Program - Engage potential members and their caregivers on what Amae Health’s program entails, what differentiates our outcomes, and how members might benefit from our program. Overflow Clinical Coverage (as needed) - Provide occasional individual or group therapy coverage across California clinics during lower-intake-volume periods. You ask good questions, listen for what's underneath the presenting complaint, and you're not afraid to say no to a referral that isn't right for Amae's model. You're organized enough to manage a full day of assessments without losing the thread on any one person, and you communicate clearly and quickly with our enrollment team and Clinic Directors so hand-offs don't drop. You're comfortable doing all of this over video, with the same rigor you'd bring in person. An active license to practice as a therapist in California (e.g., Supervision hours are not available for this role. Master's or Doctoral degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or a related clinical field Prior experience conducting clinical intake assessments, diagnostic evaluations, and/or level-of-care determinations, ideally in a PHP/IOP, community mental health, or hospital-adjacent setting Strong working knowledge of risk assessment and crisis safety planning Excellent, fast, clear written and verbal communication — you'll be coordinating hand-offs with clinic teams throughout the day Comfortable and effective delivering clinical assessments over video/telehealth What We’re Building A national care delivery model for the highest-acuity patients in behavioral health. Precision medicine for SMI. Individualized treatment informed by multimodal clinical, behavioral, and social data. A clinical operating system that puts longitudinal data, real-time patient signals, and purpose-built tools into a single decision layer for care teams. Frontier science and measurement: defining and validating the outcomes frameworks that this field has never had. A partnership model with the country’s leading health systems that proves coordinated SMI care can work at scale. Empathy is not a brand value. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity. Amae Health is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $58-$68 per hour and will be adjusted to market cost. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. Parental leave and programs built around well-being. If you want to practice at the top of your license, learn from the best in academic medicine, contribute to research that is defining a new field, and do it all inside a team that was actually built for this work, we’d like to talk. Empathy is not a brand value. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity.