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Dayton, Ohio

MGR - CLINICAL THERAPIST

Counselor / TherapistFull-Time

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Job Description

  • Position Information
  • Title: Clinical Manager Therapist
  • Facility: All PPN
  • Job Code: 10035
  • Exempt/Non-Exempt: Exempt
  • Premier Health Mission, Vision, and Values
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  • Authenticity
  • Respect
  • Excellence

General Summary/Responsibilities

The Clinical Manager Therapist functions as a senior member of the clinical team to lead, support, and oversee the planning, development, and delivery of outcome‑effective treatment services across various settings. In the therapist role, the Clinical Manager assesses the patient’s social, emotional, cultural, mental health, and family situation and interprets this information to develop individualized treatment plans and work directly with patients to achieve established goals and objectives.

The therapist is skilled in individual, family, and couple’s therapeutic approaches that can be utilized to assist patients in achieving established goals. The Clinical Manager Therapist is able to work independently while collaborating with physicians and interdisciplinary team members to ensure high‑quality care coordination and continuity of services.

In addition to providing direct clinical services, the Clinical Manager provides leadership and oversight to Clinical Supervisors, therapists, and other clinical staff.

This role is responsible for ensuring consistent implementation of evidence‑based practices, compliance with documentation and regulatory standards, and the delivery of quality patient care across programs.

The Clinical Manager offers clinical consultation, mentorship, and guidance to Clinical Supervisors and serves as a resource for complex clinical decision‑making.

This position also plans, coordinates, and delivers both on‑site and off‑site clinical case coordination, intervention, consultation, and educational services to children, adolescents, adults, and families, as needed. The Clinical Manager works collaboratively with organizational leadership to support clinical operations, staff development, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.

Scope/Span of Control

  • Supervisory Responsibilities (if applicable)
  • Supervises FTEs: Yes
  • Number of FTEs Supervised: 5-10
  • Exercises full management authority including performance reviews, discipline, termination and personnel hiring Yes
  • Fiscal Responsibilities (if applicable)
  • Annual Revenue in Dollars: N/A
  • Annual Expense in Dollars: N/A
  • Financial Accountability: N/A
  • Population Served
  • Age of Population Served - Choose all that apply
  • Infant (birth – less than 1 year)
  • Pediatric (1 – less than 9 years)
  • Adolescent (9 – less than 18 years)
  • Adult (18 – less than 65 years)
  • Geriatric (65 years & older)
  • All Age Groups (Birth & Above)
  • Not Applicable

Qualifications

  • Education
  • Minimum Level of Education Required: Master's degree

Additional Requirements

  • Type of degree: Relevant Social Science Field
  • Area of study or major: N/A
  • Preferred educational qualifications: N/A
  • Position specific testing requirement: N/A

Licensure/Certification/Registration

  • Licensed in the state of Ohio as Licensed Independent Social Worker with Supervision (LISW-S) or Independently Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with Supervision (IMFT-S), Licensed clinical counselor with supervision (LPCC-S)
  • Training and experience in the types of services provided by the team for the adult population
  • Diagnostic and Statistical manual of Mental Disorders (DSM- 5 or subsequent revisions)

Experience

  • Minimum Level of Experience Required: 3 - 5 years of job related experience
  • Prior job title or occupational experience: N/A
  • Prior specific functional responsibilities: N/A
  • Preferred experience: N/A
  • Other experience requirements: N/A

Knowledge/Skills

List any knowledge or skills that an incumbent must have to be successful in the job that does not include Behavioral skills or anything stated in the above sections.

Key Responsibilities

The Clinical Manager Therapist leads and oversees the delivery of outcome-effective treatment services while providing direct clinical care to patients. This role also manages clinical staff, ensures regulatory compliance, and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to maintain high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical supervisionTreatment planningMental health assessmentIndividual therapyFamily therapyCouples therapyStaff mentorshipCrisis interventionDocumentation standardsInterdisciplinary collaboration

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 20% are remote, 28% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Mental Health Therapy by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedMental Health Therapy median $58k (middle half $56k–$64k)29 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingOhio index 92.8US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Mental Health Therapy listings in Ohio417 active7,937 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 20% remote · 28% no call · 70% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedOhio Counselor listings: 23% state a sign-on bonus (median $4k) · 17% offer loan repayment627 active listings, Nov 2026
New Mental Health Therapy listings2,473 in the last 30 days1,673 the 30 days before (+48%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Mental Health Therapy pay trend−1.8% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Salary Distribution

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17
<$65k
12
$65k-75k
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$75k-85k
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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

45 jobs · 38 employers
401k / retirement match
84%
CME allowance
47%
Sign-on bonus
33%
Loan repayment
29%
PSLF eligible
20%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,878 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Dayton

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$147k
Typical market rent
$1,241/mo
Residents’ average commute
20 min
State income tax
Up to 4%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.