We're building the mental health care that older adults deserve and that can be difficult to access. We're looking for a founding clinical leader to oversee, mentor, and grow the team of clinicians who deliver it, and to help shape its future.
About Brightrise
We bring geriatric-specialized, Medicare-covered mental health care to older adults at home — by video or telephone — with warmth and compassion. We're launching in Iowa, a state with a large rural senior population, with plans to expand across the Midwest. We were founded by a successful behavioral healthcare operator who watched his own father fall through every gap in a system that wasn't built for his age, and set out to build the resource he couldn't find.
The opportunity
This is a rare chance to help build a model of care, not inherit one. You'll lead the clinical heart of Brightrise — overseeing, mentoring, and supporting a growing team of geriatric-specialized clinicians. You'll serve as the licensed clinical principal of our practice, while an experienced operating team handles the business side. You'll also work closely with our founding clinical advisor — a nationally recognized leader in geriatric mental health — on clinical strategy. Given we're in the launch phase, this begins as a part-time role and is designed to grow into a full-time leadership role as the practice scales and de-risks.
What you'll do
- Oversee, mentor, and support a growing team of clinicians — clinical supervision, case consultation, and the day-to-day clinical leadership that keeps quality high as we scale.
- Serve as the licensed clinical principal of our affiliated professional corporation, holding genuine clinical authority, with Brightrise's management company handling all business operations.
- Uphold clinical quality and safety — supervision, quality review, and crisis/safety protocols.
- Optionally carry a light caseload at launch to help set the standard of care, then step fully into oversight as the team grows.
- Partner with our clinical advisor to shape the clinical model and standards — and, as we grow, the individualized geriatric training clinicians complete.
- Help refine clinical protocols for our focus areas: late-life depression and anxiety, grief and bereavement, adjusting to illness and declining health, caregiver stress, and sleep difficulties.
- Partner on clinician recruiting and on relationships with referral partners.
Who you are
- A licensed geropsychologist (PhD/PsyD) or senior clinical social worker (LISW/LCSW) with deep experience caring for older adults: late-life depression and anxiety, grief, caregiver strain, and coping with illness and/or cognitive changes.
- Licensed or licensed-eligible in Iowa, and willing to become licensed in additional states as we grow (you can live anywhere in the US).
- Training and experience with one or more evidence-based psychotherapies (e.g., CBT, PST, IPT, ACT).
- Experienced supervising and mentoring master's-level clinicians and/or clinicians-in-training.
- Experienced with telemental health care, by video and phone (required) — it's how all of our care is delivered.
- A teacher and mentor at heart — you've led and grown others, and enjoy it.
- Energized by building something new and by our mission.
Nice to have
- Program-leadership experience.
- Academic or curriculum-design background.
- Existing referral relationships in Iowa.
- Hospice, palliative, or medical / health-psychology experience.
What we offer
- Mentorship from a field leader — our founding clinical advisor as your strategic advisor and thought partner.
- Real clinical leadership — the founding clinical voice of the practice, backed by an experienced operating team.
- A role designed to grow — part-time now, scaling to full-time as the practice grows and de-risks.
- A meaningful leadership role as our licensed clinical principal, with competitive compensation.
- Anticipated time commitment — ~10–20 hours/week to start (depending on mutual availability and needs), converting to full-time as the company grows.
- Benefits — a generous benefits package that begins when the role becomes full-time.