Overview
Title: School-based Mental Health Clinician
Benefits:
- Starting salary is $68,500
- Approximately 8 weeks of paid time off per year
- A comprehensive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, health and wellness program.
- Multiple training and professional development opportunities
Minimum Qualifications:
- Masters Degree in Counseling, Clinical Social Work or Psychology.
- Licensed or close to licensure preferred.
- Must hold an active and valid registration with the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS)
- Experience working in schools within a multicultural, diverse, urban community.
- Understanding of trauma-informed practices required.
- Experience and commitment to collaborating with parents, teachers and school staff.
- Experience with Medi-cal paperwork a plus.
- Spanish language highly desirable.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to maintain goals and priorities in dealing with varying challenges
- Ability to be flexible in working with people and organizations with different viewpoints
Specific Responsibilities:
- Provide trauma-informed, strengths-based individual, group and family mental health services, including therapy, family consultation, case management, and prevention education.
- Required to hold an active caseload of 20-26 different clients per week + be willing to develop curriculum and implement 1-3 groups per week in school setting
- Must graduate clients within 1 school year of service delivery and support with clinical goals of 75% reduction in client symptom reduction upon baseline data gathered.
- Administer client outcome measurement indicators (I.e., GAD 7 – PHQ9) as guided by the Quality Assurance Team
- Must adhere to program productivity expectations (4.5 minimum – 5.5 billed hours per day via individual psychotherapy session)
- Must adhere to timeliness submission of notes as informed by Program Director and Quality Assurance Management Team
- Engage in mandatory weekly clinical supervision with clinical supervisor regardless of licensure / registration status and be an active participant of the clinical team in group case conference.
- Engage in mandatory monthly All Staff Meetings
- Participates in monthly coaching and training opportunities as delivered and requested by Program Director and Quality Assurance team
- Provide relevant school-focused behavioral health services including, but not limited to:
- Classroom prevention education (e.g. communication skills, Anti-bullying/Be an Ally, mindfulness practices.)
- Teacher in-services on desired mental health topics
- Participate on school’s intervention teams (e.g. CARE teams.)
- Provide crisis intervention and trauma response as needed
- Participate in and/or lead climate and culture supportive programs, such as Day of Silence, restorative justice practices, etc.
- Provide family education opportunities as needed
- Consult with school administration, faculty and staff on specific youth and families and on school mental health issues in general. Participate is SST, IEP meetings.
- Work with school staff, teachers, administrators and parents to coordinate services.
- Complete all paperwork documentation in a timely manner including Medi-Cal documentation where relevant. Participate in monthly CQRT meetings
- Provide services to clients in an ethical, legal and professional manner, including HIPAA, CAMFT and NASW standards.
- Be familiar with and adhere to all agency policies and regulations.
- Competency in cultural issues related to race, ethnicity, nationality, class, religion, and sexual orientation required.
Personal Qualities:
- Enjoys participating and positively impacting school culture, being a proactive, engaged mental health leader, mediating and advocating on behalf of children and families, enjoys and thrives collaborating in a complex culturally rich community system
- Open to self-reflection, introspection and exploring areas of self as they pertain to the clinical work.