National Director of Mental Health Clinical Excellence

National Director of Mental Health Clinical Excellence
  Licensed Clinical Social Work
  Licensed Clinical Social Work  |  All National Markets  |  Reports to the Chief Clinical Officer

School / District
Thrive Therapies Group — National
Location
All National Markets
Open Positions
1 FTE
Employment Type
W-2 Salaried | Performance Bonus Eligible
Start Date
Open
Compensation
W-2 salaried position; $85,000-$104,000; plus performance bonus eligibility; full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) with employer match
Licensure Required
Full, unrestricted LCSW licensure; active licensure in Tennessee or relevant state of practice
 
WHY THRIVE THERAPIES
Thrive Therapies Group is a tech-enabled pediatric healthcare company delivering specialized clinical care to children with disabilities and those facing barriers to access. We deliver our care where it changes outcomes fastest — inside the schools and districts where children spend their days — partnering directly with district leaders to integrate evidence-based services into the school day. Every clinician under our banner is part of a unified clinical model, accountable to a single national standard of care, working from a shared platform built specifically for the children we serve.
 
At the center of our model is Thrive Clinical, our purpose-built EHR designed from the ground up for pediatric clinical care in school settings. Thrive Clinical is not a generic documentation platform retrofitted for schools. It was built to track student progress, measure symptom reduction and functional gains, capture rich clinical data, and give providers and leaders real-time insight into whether kids are actually getting better. It is the operational backbone of everything we do, and it gets smarter as the clinicians and leaders using it push it forward.
 
We are growing rapidly because the need is staggering and largely unmet. Across the country, children are experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, and behavioral crises with no clear path to care inside their schools. Districts are overwhelmed, referral pipelines are broken, and the clinicians who could help are stretched too thin or trained in approaches that were never built for this population or this setting. We are building the alternative: a clinically excellent, technology-enabled mental health model designed to scale without compromising the depth or quality of care any individual child receives.
 
The National Director of Mental Health Clinical Excellence Clinical Excellence is the architect of that standard.
 
THE ROLE 
 
This is not a supervisory role in the traditional sense. The National Director of Mental Health Clinical Excellence Clinical Excellence is a senior leadership position responsible for defining, building, and driving Thrive's national standard of practice across school psychology and educational diagnostics. You are not managing a single region. You are setting the clinical bar that every Thrive school psychologist is measured against, in every school, in every state, across every market we operate or will operate.
 
Reporting to the Chief Clinical Officer, you will lead and develop the layer of Clinical Supervisors who deliver high-touch supervision to pre-licensed LCSWs, clinical social work residents, and tiered providers across our regional markets. They are the coaches on the ground. You are the one who decides what they are coaching toward. You build the playbook. You establish the benchmarks. You define what excellent clinical mental health practice looks like at Thrive nationally, and you make sure it holds consistently across a footprint that spans the country and is growing by the month.
Because we own our clinical platform, you will also serve as a primary clinical voice in the evolution of Thrive Clinical, partnering closely with product and engineering to shape how the platform measures, supports, and accelerates excellent mental health care. This is not a courtesy seat at the table. You will own clinical requirements for defined areas of the product roadmap.
 
This role requires approximately 50% travel across Thrive's national markets, concentrated around summer intensives, site launches, supervisor onboarding, and targeted in-person work with partner districts. The work happens in schools, in districts, and alongside the teams delivering care across the country.
 
WHO YOU ARE
A fully licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with deep credibility in clinical diagnosis, evidence-based treatment, and school-based or pediatric mental health, and the humility to lead a national clinical team across diverse populations and settings
A clinical leader who has already managed clinicians across multiple sites or multiple states, and who is ready to take a national footprint as the next logical scope
A standard-setter who thinks in systems: you see a gap in diagnostic practice and your first instinct is to build the protocol, the supervision framework, or the dashboard that closes it permanently — and you can show us the artifacts of work you have already done at this scope
Fluent across evidence-based treatment modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), trauma-informed care frameworks (TF-CBT, EMDR-informed practice), motivational interviewing, and strength-based and culturally responsive approaches — and you know how to teach clinicians to implement them with fidelity in school environments
Data-fluent and outcomes-oriented: you measure success in accurate identifications, appropriate placements, compliance rates, supervisor performance, district NPS, and clinician retention — not in evaluation hours logged or referrals processed
A leader of leaders, comfortable managing a layer of Clinical Supervisors rather than carrying a caseload yourself, and confident holding that layer accountable to a national clinical bar
Data-fluent and outcomes-oriented: you measure success in symptom reduction, functional gains, goal achievement, compliance rates, supervisor performance, district NPS, and clinician retention — not in session hours logged or contact notes submitted
Fluent in insurance billing across commercial payers, Medicaid, and school-based behavioral health funding streams, with working knowledge of CPT coding for mental health services, prior authorization workflows, and the payer variation that comes with operating across multiple states
Knowledgeable about the state-by-state legal landscape governing minor consent, confidentiality, and the limits of parental access to mental health records — including HIPAA, FERPA, and state-specific minor consent statutes — and skilled at translating that legal variation into clear, actionable policy that clinicians can actually follow on the ground
Comfortable holding clinical excellence and operational accountability in the same hand, across multiple states and service lines, without dropping either
Deeply invested in the evolution of Thrive Clinical as a purpose-built tool for kids in schools: you are not just a user of the platform, you are a driver of what it becomes, bringing the clinical insight that makes it more powerful and more useful for mental health providers over time
 
WHAT YOU’LL OWN
 
Set and Own the National Clinical Standard for Mental Health
Define Thrive's national framework for psychoeducational assessment and eligibility determination, setting the standard for how school psychologists across every market select instruments, conduct evaluations, and document findings
Build and maintain the clinical frameworks, treatment protocols, supervision standards, and modality-specific practice guidelines that Clinical Supervisors implement with their supervisee populations across all regions
Ensure that what excellent mental health care looks like at Thrive is documented, measurable, and consistently applied regardless of geography, district, or state
Establish Thrive’s approach to clinical diagnosis and treatment planning, ensuring that providers are conducting thorough biopsychosocial assessments, applying DSM-5-TR criteria accurately, and building individualized, evidence-based treatment plans for every student on their caseload
Ensure that Thrive's diagnostic standards account for the full range of student backgrounds, including English language learners, students with complex or co-occurring profiles, and students from diverse cultural and linguistic communities
 
Lead and Develop Clinical Supervisors Nationally
Serve as the direct clinical authority above Clinical Supervisors, who deliver high-touch supervision to pre-licensed LCSWs, clinical social work residents, and performance-flagged providers across assigned national markets
Build the supervision model that scales from one Clinical Supervisor today to a national team across dozens of markets in two years — including hiring criteria, supervisor onboarding, the supervisor playbook, and the cadence that holds them accountable
Set the coaching agenda nationally: your Clinical Supervisors implement your standards, and you ensure they have the frameworks, tools, and direction to do that consistently whether they are in Tennessee, Washington, Florida, or any market we expand into
Coach the coaches: build your Clinical Supervisor layer as your most important product, owning their development, succession planning, and bench
Make readiness and advancement decisions in collaboration with Clinical Supervisors and regional leads using Thrive Clinical data and the structured performance criteria you define
 
Drive Thrive Clinical Adoption, Fidelity, and Evolution
Own Thrive Clinical as the operational expression of the national diagnostic model: set the standards for how it is used, what it measures, and how its data informs clinical decisions at every level of the organization
Establish the platform benchmarks Clinical Supervisors and providers are held to, and use system-wide data to identify where the standard is hol