LA FAMILIA COUNSELING CENTER, INC.
Job Description

POSITION: Mental Health Clinician

SUMMARY: The Mental Health Clinician provides counseling services to children and teens. The Mental Health Clinician performs client and/or community focused resource coordination activities to ensure clients and/or community members receive comprehensive care. The Mental Health Clinician must be flexible and able to work in a combination of office, community (including clients home) and school sites, and via tele-health.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Candidate will be skilled in the areas of clinical care, diagnosis and treatment planning, time management, organization, and the ability to learn quickly. Must be flexible and able to collaborate with the family in coordinating treatment planning and goals for services, using a family centered approach. In addition, must be:

• * Familiar with cognitive behavioral, humanistic, family systems, narrative approaches, and other individual and family centered modalities. These are the theoretical approaches most often utilized at La Familia
• Candidate will have experience in a cultural setting, preferably Spanish speaking, and able to work full time
• Work collaboratively with LFCC team such as the clinician, psychiatrist, family advocate, youth advocate, program manager and clinical supervisor in order to provide quality services
• Work collaboratively with outside agencies, educational representatives, county social workers, and other community leaders to assist the family on a multi-disciplinary level
• Able to participate in Intensive Care Coordination: including linking members to services provided by other child/youth serving systems, facilitating and or participating in child /youth family team meetings, ensuring active participation of client and involved individuals, clarifying roles with therapist, monitoring activities to ensure that identified services are progressing appropriately, changing and redirecting actions targeted at the client’s and family’s needs, and coordinating mental health care with the team.
• Willing to facilitate Child and Family Team meetings.

• Able to perform counseling sessions in the home, school, or other places of service that the family member requests

• Able to attend weekly staff meetings, weekly clinical supervision, and internal utilization reviews.
• Able to assist in peer reviews and periodically present case studies.
• Able to follow the protocol for specialty MHSA services and flexible funding due to homelessness issues.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT:

• Master of Science degree, Associate MFT/LCSW/LPCC or licensed;
• Meet the requirements as LPHA or LPHA Waived; and
• Registered w/ BBS, depending on qualifications/education/licensure

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excellent time management skills, self-driven, and organized
• Bilingual/Spanish preferred
• Can perform duties with cultural care, including 68% productivity
• Must have background and knowledge of trauma and the effect it has on child development
• Must possess training and group facilitation skills, knowledge of related community resources, and the ability to collaborate with other community organizations and agencies.
• Knowledge of parenting, infant and child development, adolescent growth and development, and ability to communicate effectively with families
• Current, valid California Driver’s License and driving record and current proof of personal vehicle insurance
• Cultural awareness regarding race, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity and other social identities, with an existing ability to communicate and collaborate with people across lines of difference with respect and dignity.
• Must provide linguistically and culturally sensitive care to promote the reduction of cultural barriers to all the community without bias.
• Temporarily to comply with COVID-19 – 80% of work will be via tele-health with 20% in office (subject to change)

Note: It is the responsibility of the applicant to meet the entrance requirements stated above. Upon accepting the practicum, the applicant will sign below to indicate that he/she has read, understands, and possesses the qualifications required. He/she understands that La Familia will conduct a background investigation through the Department of Justice.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $50,000.00 – $55,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift

Application Question(s):

• Are you registered w/BBS?

Education:

• Master’s (Required)

Experience:

• Community Health: 1 year (Preferred)
• Mental Health Counseling: 1 year (Preferred)

Language:

• Spanish (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Associate MFT/LCSW/LPCC license (Preferred)

Work Location:

• One location

Work Remotely:

• No