Intensive Outpatient Clinician (IOP)

Vail Health has become the world’s most advanced mountain healthcare system. Vail Health consists of an updated 520,000-square-foot, 56-bed hospital.  This state-of-the-art facility provides exceptional care to all of our patients, with the most beautiful views in the area, located centrally in Vail. Learn more about Vail Health here.

• Plans, coordinates, and facilitates IOP group sessions for adolescent and adult cohorts, emphasizing skill development, psychoeducation, and emotional regulation to promote stabilization and ongoing recovery. This requires evening and weekend shifts.

• Delivers evidence-based individual, group, and family psychotherapy to patients in the Community Stabilization Program, maintaining a caseload of 10–12 patients.

• Participates actively in interdisciplinary treatment planning, case consultations, and care coordination to ensure continuity and quality of care across levels of service (inpatient, crisis, outpatient, and community).

• Completes all documentation in accordance with state, federal, and organizational standards. Ensures timely, accurate, and clinically appropriate charting that supports compliance and optimal reimbursement.

• Contributes to the ongoing enhancement of the IOP and Community Stabilization Program curriculum and operations, integrating evidence-based practices and patient feedback to ensure program excellence.

• Participates in supervision, team meetings, and ongoing professional training to maintain clinical competency and adherence to Vail Health Behavioral Health’s mission, vision, and values.

• Three years of clinical experience in an outpatient, community-based, or higher level of care behavioral health setting


• Experience facilitating group therapy and providing short-term stabilization therapy preferred


• Familiarity with crisis stabilization, step-down, or high-acuity behavioral health programs strongly desired


• Understanding of Colorado behavioral health laws, confidentiality, and ethical care standards


• Rural behavioral health experience with specific knowledge of resources and community agencies specific to Eagle County preferred


• Bilingual preferred

• One of the following is required:
  
  
  
  • State of Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
  
  
  • State of Colorado Licensed Clinical Social Worker (CSW)
  
  
  
  

Education:

• Master’s degree in counseling psychology, clinical psychology, or related field

Benefits at Vail Health (Full Time) Include:

• Competitive Wages & Family Benefits:
  
  
  
  • Competitive wages
  
  
  • Parental leave (4 weeks paid)
  
  
  • Housing programs
  
  
  • Childcare reimbursement 
  
  
  
  


• Comprehensive Health Benefits: 
  
  
  
  • Medical
  
  
  • Dental 
  
  
  • Vision
  
  
  
  


• Educational Programs: 
  
  
  
  • Tuition Assistance 
  
  
  • Existing Student Loan Repayment
  
  
  • Specialty Certification Reimbursement
  
  
  • Annual Supplemental Educational Funds
  
  
  
  


• Paid Time Off:
  
  
  
  • Up to five weeks in your first year of employment and continues to grow each year.
  
  
  
  


• Retirement & Supplemental Insurance:
  
  
  
  • 403(b) Retirement plan with immediate matching 
  
  
  • Life insurance
  
  
  • Short and long-term disability
  
  
  
  


• Recreation Benefits, Wellness & More:
  
  
  
  • Up to $1,000 annual wellbeing reimbursement
  
  
  • Recreation discounts
  
  
  • Pet insurance