Clinician I

About the position

The Clinician I position at Pacific Clinics is designed for professionals who provide comprehensive mental health services to children and young adults. This role involves conducting assessments, developing treatment plans, and coordinating therapeutic activities within the community. The clinician will work closely with families to ensure culturally responsive and effective interventions, aiming to stabilize high-risk youth and promote their overall well-being.

Responsibilities

• Completes assessments and evaluations that are culturally relevant and appropriate to youth and family strengths and needs.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Social Work, Marriage Family Counselor, Clinical Psychology, or a closely related field.
• One (1) year of supervised clinical experience with children.
• Registration with the BBS or BOP required.
• Licensed according to California state law or become licensed within the designated time frame.

Nice-to-haves

• Two (2) to three (3) years of clinical experience with children.
• Training in domestic violence, physical/sexual child abuse, trauma with the competency to maintain current knowledge related to state, county, and local law.
• Experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities with culturally diverse populations.
• Bilingual communication skills in another language.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision benefits
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Flex Spending
• Health Savings Account
• EAP
• Employer Paid Long-Term Disability & Basic Life Insurance
• 401K Employer Match up to 3.5%
• Competitive Time Off Plans
• Employee engagement and advocacy opportunities for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.