Ellie Mental Health is seeking a professional, personable, and highly self-directed Community Referral Outreach Coordinator to manage an assigned portfolio of healthcare and community referral sources throughout the Ann Arbor area through recurring in-person visits, relationship development, and consistent follow-up. This is not a social media, event planning, or office-based marketing position. The right person should enjoy being out in the community, walking into professional offices, meeting new people, and developing relationships over time.
Our referral network includes organizations that regularly interact with individuals and families who may benefit from outpatient mental health services, including:
The objective is to move beyond simply delivering materials and develop ongoing professional relationships so referral partners understand who Ellie Mental Health serves, how to refer individuals to us, and how we may be able to help when a mental health need arises.
Ellie Mental Health partners with The Doctor Referral Institute (DRI) to provide the structure, training, coaching, and outreach methodology for this role. The coordinator will follow the outreach cadence and relationship-development process established through the DRI program.
The right person is comfortable walking into professional offices, introducing themselves to people they do not already know, and building relationships over time. They must also be highly organized, disciplined about documentation and follow-up, and able to work independently within a structured outreach process.
Qualified candidates should have:
Prior experience in healthcare outreach, physician relations, behavioral health, medical sales, business development, community relations, marketing, referral development, or another relationship-based position is preferred.
Healthcare or behavioral health experience is helpful but is not required for the right candidate with strong relationship building, communication, organization, and follow-through skills.
This is a part-time W2 position of approximately 10 to 12 hours per week.
Hours are flexible but will primarily occur during normal weekday business hours when healthcare offices, schools, and community organizations are open.
Compensation is $30 per hour.
Field visits should be organized efficiently and grouped geographically so working time can be focused on developing referral relationships rather than unnecessary time in transit.
Strong relationships with healthcare providers and community partners make it easier for people to find mental health care when they need it. This role helps Ellie become a trusted local resource and helps referral partners connect individuals and families with appropriate outpatient mental health services.
Compensation: $30.00 - $30.00 per hour
Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Ellie Mental Health is devoted to purposefully building an inclusive and diverse workplace where all of our humans can be their authentic selves! (Authenticity is one of our core values, after all…) If you’re excited about the chance to be a change-maker with us, but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with every single qualification of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. Our mental health jobs need dedicated individuals from every background who are willing to care for others. And who knows, you might just be the perfect candidate for another role!
We take care of our people. It’s that simple. From investing in their financial future, to providing wages that shatter the ceiling in our industry to reasonable caseload expectations we ensure that our people are happy. Happy employees do better work and provide better client care! No matter what it is that you do in your mental health career at Ellie, our clients depend on us cultivating an environment where our employees can thrive so that they can thrive too!
Y’all, jobs in mental health are tough jobs with a high risk of emotional fatigue and burnout. At Ellie, we use all of our core values of humor, creativity, authenticity, acceptance, determination, and compassion not just out in our communities, but we turn them inwards too! Our employees have clear growth paths for advancing their careers.
We have created a culture that reminds us that our employees are our leaders!
Ellie is a socially responsible for-profit business, which allows us to be flexible and responsive to our community’s needs. Many mental health and wellness-focused companies are non-profits or government agencies, which rely on the general public, grants, or large donors for funding. This model often results in little creativity and lower compensation for employees, promoting a work culture that just makes people feel “blah.”
Feeling blah doesn’t help employees stay motivated, engaged, or even in their jobs for a very long time! So we created a new model: one that puts flexibility, innovative decision-making, creativity, and our people first, while remaining a socially conscious and responsible for-profit business focused on changing how we treat mental health.
In short, we’re just people helping people. Wanna join the herd?
We provide individual and couples counseling, child, teen and family therapy, medication management, psychological testing and evaluation, ARMHS & CTSS, embedded programming & organizational mental health support, and additional customized services both in-office and in-home. We are proud to be able to serve communities across Minnesota via online therapy and medication management services.
Each of our counselors, therapists, psychologists and practitioners bring their unique experience, passion, specialty and personality to therapy, and all understand the power and importance of human connection and good relationships in the process of healing and self-discovery.
