Clinician I

Initial compensation for this position ranges from $71,760 to $88,256 per year, depending on experience, location, and internal equity considerations.

Additional Compensation

• 8% License Differential for LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, PsyD, and select Peer Certifications
• Bilingual Differentials: Up to 7.5% for qualifying direct service roles; up to $80.00/month flat fee for qualifying non-direct service roles

Benefits

• Benefits eligibility starts on day one
• Robust benefits package including medical, dental, and vision
• 401K Employer Match up to 4%
• Competitive Time Off Plans (must meet eligibility requirements based on employment status)

About our Program

Bridging Families program provides community-based, strength-based, needs-driven, and individualized services to youth and their families of diverse cultures, ethnicity, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our program blends therapeutic and rehabilitative services within a multidisciplinary, family-team approach to meet the needs of the community.

Schedule

Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm

About the Role

With limited supervision, provides comprehensive assessments, treatment planning, risk assessment, clinical interventions, case management, and coordination of therapeutic activities in the community. Provides facilitation and support to enhance the efforts of individuals and their families/caregivers in the design and implementation of evidence-based treatment, working directly with children and adults.

Responsibilities

• Completes assessments and evaluations that are culturally relevant and appropriate to youth and family strengths and needs, including identification of target behaviors and the function of those target behaviors.
• Independently develops effective treatment plans with clear and measurable intervention strategies, tailored to child and family strengths, needs, and cultural preferences.
• Provides clinical leadership regarding family system observations and relays behavioral data to the team in ways that demonstrate strengths-based, solution-focused values throughout all phases of service (engagement, stabilization, planning, intervention, and transition).
• Records and collects clinical information in ways that promote and reflect family input while maintaining accountability to risks and threats associated with presenting problems.
• Independently coordinates the integration of comprehensive Functional Behavior Analysis and plans into overall child and family service plans with family members, referral sources, collateral contacts, community resources, and other agencies and support persons involved with a child's plan for stabilization and wellness.
• Facilitates the development and refinement of effective behavior and risk-specific reactive and proactive safety plans.
• Monitors effectiveness and efficiency of interventions with youth and families.
• Demonstrates proficient skills and abilities regarding conflict management and mediation of teams.
• Meets revenue and productivity standards.
• Ensures that effective personal organizational systems for paperwork/information management are developed and maintained to support timelines and priorities.
• Performs other related responsibilities, as assigned, to support specific department/business needs.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree (MA/MS) in social work, marriage and family therapy, counseling, psychology, or a related behavioral health field and two (2) or more years of relevant experience required, including practicum/internship hours. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered (two years of relevant experience equals one year of education).
• Registration with the California BBS as an Associate Clinical Social Worker (ASW), Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT), or Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (APCC).
• Must obtain licensure in the State of California within 5 years.
• Familiarity with trauma-informed care, DSM-5 diagnosis, and treatment planning.

Career Ladder Opportunity: We may hire an individual into this position who is within 6 months of graduating with their master's degree in a related field and meets all other requirements. The position offered will be a non-exempt Clinical Professional Trainee position. Once the degree is conferred, the individual will have 90 days to obtain BBS registration. Upon receipt, the candidate will be promoted without competition into the exempt Clinician I position.

Skills

• Documents Clearly and Accurately
• Encourages Customer Focus
• Individual, Family, and Group Therapy
• Leads Team Performance
• Time Management

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear, taste or smell.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Driving may be required. May have unsupervised contact with children. Requires full background check and TB Exam.