Behavioral Health Therapist (Auburn)

Job Description

Job Description

Behavioral Health Therapist — Auburn, CA
$80,200 – $153,000/yr · Full-time or Part-time · Licensed Psychologist, LCSW, or LMFT · 2 openings

Updated 8/25/2026 — Laura Shattuck confirmed 8/24/2026 that BOTH seats are Auburn. Seat two is no longer Auburn + Rocklin; she will tell us if that shifts.

A well-established Tribal Federally Qualified Health Center serving Placer and Nevada counties is adding licensed behavioral health clinicians to its integrated primary care team in Auburn. Roughly 50 years of service, about 25,000 active patients, third health center opening 2027.

Pay by license type (employer starting-salary schedule):

• Licensed Psychologist — $118,800 – $153,000
• LCSW — $91,400 – $110,000
• LMFT — $80,200 – $96,000

Two openings, both Auburn

• Seat one — Auburn, starting as soon as credentialed.
• Seat two — Auburn, starting February 2027.

Schedule

• Full-time (40 hrs) — Mon–Fri 8:00–5:00, or the 9/80 (nine-hour days, one full day off every two weeks). All current therapists work the 9/80.
• Part-time — 24 to 32 hrs/week (0.6–0.8 FTE), can be three full days. 24 hrs/week is the floor (Laura: "ideally not dipping below 24 hours or .6 FTE"). PT days are 8:00–5:00. The 9/80 is full-time only .
• No nights, no weekends, no call. Clinics close 12:00–1:00 for lunch.

Why clinicians take this seat

• Loan repayment — approved NHSC site, current mental-health HPSA score 19 . Chapa-De already has BH clinicians on NHSC LRP contracts, including a psychologist on a 9/80 (Laura confirmed the 9/80 counts as full-time; they average 40 hrs/wk). IHS and other federal/state programs also in play.
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision for the employee (full-time). Dependent medical 80% employer-paid.
• Integrated care — warm hand-offs down the hall from medical providers. Short-term individual and family therapy, brief interventions, SBIRT, 30-minute appointments, eClinicalWorks.

Benefits — LCSW and LMFT (full-time)

• Medical (Blue Shield PPO or Kaiser HMO), Lincoln dental, Guardian VSP vision — 100% employer-paid for the employee, effective the 1st of the month after 30 days
• Dependent medical 80% employer-paid; dependent dental/vision at group rates
• CME allowance and paid CME time, plus license renewal assistance
• 403(b) — contribute immediately on hire, no vesting period; employer matches up to 6% of gross after one year of employment and 1,000 hours
• $50,000 employer-paid term life with double-indemnity ADD; LTD; voluntary STD
• 17 days paid vacation annually (22 at 4 yrs, 27 at 9 yrs); sick time 1 hr per 30 hrs worked
• 11 paid holidays — 10 scheduled plus 1 floating after the 6-month introductory period; pro-rated by FTE below full-time
• EAP and FSA

Licensed Psychologists are benefited at Chapa-De's provider tier (higher vacation allowance). Part-time benefits pro-rate by weekly-hours band per the PT benefit sheet.

Requirements / hard screens

• Active, unrestricted CA license — Licensed Psychologist, LCSW, or LMFT. Associate/registered credentials (ASW, AMFT, APCC, psych postdoc) do NOT qualify — Jen Simonds rejected a license-eligible PsyD on 7/18/26 for exactly this.
• Three years in a behavioral health program; adults, families, and children
• Working knowledge of and ability to relate to the Indigenous community
• EHR documentation (eClinicalWorks); BLS certification
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship, now or in the future — Chapa-De does not sponsor or transfer visas (Laura, 8/18/26). Screen on work authorization, never citizenship.
• RTR check: ask whether they applied to or interviewed with Chapa-De in the past 12 months. This burned us twice (Lindbloom 7/21, Whitaker 7/30).
• Credentialing ~45–60 days, complete before start

Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian applicants under the Indian Preference Act (Title 25 U.S.C. §472 473). In other than the above, an Equal Opportunity Employer. Benefit package subject to change at the employer's discretion.