Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Group Therapist, Full-Time, Lexington

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) — Group Therapist, Full-Time, Lexington

Salaried, $70,000 to $100,000 a year, plus $5,000 in performance bonuses in your first 90 days. Full-time, on-site in Lexington, KY.

About Harbor Behavioral Health

HBH is a community-based behavioral health organization rooted in Lexington, Kentucky, with a growing presence in Hopkinsville. We provide structured, team-based services to adults with serious mental health needs, most of whom live in personal care homes. Our Therapeutic Rehabilitation Program (TRP) pairs licensed clinical staff with Peer Support Specialists in a collaborative, recovery-focused model. The goals of TRP include helping clients with: improving daily living skills, self-monitoring of symptoms and side effects, emotional regulation skills, crisis coping skills, and interpersonal skills. Its purpose is to reduce the effects of the mental illness and bring the client back to their best possible level of functioning.

The Job

We're hiring a full-time LCSW for our Lexington program. You'll be on site full time, averaging five days a week. Your schedule is set in writing when you're hired. Your salary also covers one extra day a month when we need coverage. No on-call and no productivity quota.

What you'd actually do

• Lead two groups a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and spend real time with clients at our program.
• Own the clinical side of each client's record: intakes, assessments, treatment plans, documentation, prior authorizations and renewals, and calls with insurance reviewers.
• Work alongside our Peer Support Specialists in guiding our current curriculum.
• Co-sign the notes of the Certified Social Workers (CSWs) on your team within 2 business days, write Medicaid's monthly note for each of their clients, and supervise our Peer Support Specialists (two meetings a month each).
• Use our note-checker and other AI tools to speed up paperwork.
• Our Lexington site lead runs your performance reviews, and you'll work directly with Harbor's owner.

How this job will change

We're growing, so we tell you up front how this job will change:

• Your days may change. We keep your schedule as consistent as we can, but it may change month to month as the program grows. We'll tell you before the new month starts.
• When our Hopkinsville program needs help, including some weekends, you'll cover its clinical work, with travel mileage + lodging paid when you go.
• We are looking to expand to Northern Kentucky in 2027, so you may need to travel/extended commute temporarily while we hire locally.

What you need

• An active, unrestricted Kentucky LCSW license today. We can't wait on a new license or a transfer from another state.
• Master's degree in Social Work (MSW) from a CSWE-accredited program
• Valid driver's license, reliable transportation and current auto insurance
• Comfort using AI tools in your daily work (drafting, organizing, summarizing)
• Strong clinical judgment, assessment and documentation skills

• Ability to work well within an interdisciplinary team

A plus

• Experience working with adults with serious mental illness
• Familiarity with Kentucky Medicaid documentation and prior authorizations
• Already enrolled with Kentucky Medicaid and credentialed with the Medicaid health plans. If you're not, we start that paperwork the day you accept.

Newly licensed LCSWs are encouraged to apply.

Employment is contingent on successful completion of all HBH pre-employment requirements, including background, registry and federal exclusion checks; drug and health screenings; license and education verification; and reference checks.

Pay and benefits

• $70,000 to $100,000 a year, salaried
• $5,000 performance bonus: $2,500 at 30 days and $2,500 at 90 days, nothing to pay back
• $5,000 a year for continuing education, license and certification costs, and conferences, starting after your first 90 days.
• Employer-sponsored health insurance, with optional dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Mileage paid for work travel at the IRS rate; lodging and meals covered during travel as well.

Core Values

Lots of companies mention core values at orientation and never bring them up again. This is NOT the case at HBH.

We talk about them and practice them daily (with varying levels of success). So please be aware of them, ask about them, and know we will be holding ourselves to them (the owner included, and especially). They are:

1. Responsibility - different than blame, focused on learning

2. Curiosity - holding your opinions lightly

3. Candor - speaking your unarguable truth, not withholding from others

4. Agreements - making clear ones, cleaning up broken ones

For more details about these commitments, see the book "The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership". You'll be getting a copy at orientation.

Many people have left the company or been asked to leave because they (or we) realized they weren't interested in living these values...which means all we've got left are people who are. If you're one of them, you'll love this work environment.