Mental Health Clinician

Mental Health Clinician - Sacramento

Here is your opportunity to join a team committed to creating a positive impact in the lives of vulnerable and under-served children and their families. As a Mental Health Clinician, you'll be rewarded by knowing that you are truly making a difference in the community. The Mental Health Clinician serves abused and neglected children by diagnosing, developing treatments plans and by providing counseling and advocacy for foster youth in our Sacramento and occasionally to the Stockton/San Joaquin communities. You can help provide safety and stability to some of the most vulnerable children and families as a Mental Health Clinician at Alternative Family Services.

You will earn supervised hours for licensure in a dynamic and growing mission-driven agency. In this full-time role you will be fully trained in Medi-Cal documentation, become certified in CANS Assessments, and gain the client and case management hours needed for licensure as an LCSW, MFT, or LPCC. This program is based on a culturally relevant, family-centered, strength-based approach to treatment. We provide extensive training, clinical supervision and support for a career that will develop you professionally and reward you personally. See details below!

About Alternative Family Services

Alternative Family Services is a Foster Family, Adoption and Mental Health Agency that has been serving abused and neglected children in our community since 1973. Our mission is to support vulnerable children and families in need of stability, safety, and well-being in communities. We provide a wide range of foster, adoption, mental health and transition-aged youth services in English and Spanish. We have eight locations throughout the Bay Area including Oakland and over 200 employees. We celebrate diversity, equal opportunity, and excellence.


Responsibilities

• Conduct assessment, diagnosis, and treatment plan development to each client on caseload
• Provide counseling, intake, clinical case management, advocacy, linkage, support, and individual and family therapy for clients and families
• Positively contribute to program and agency team culture through collaboration, professional group participation, the de-escalation of conflict, and positive communication
• Document delivery of service via daily progress notes
• Services may be offered via telehealth or in-person depending on the needs of the client and assessment of safety issues
• Maintain client charts to ensure compliance with Medi-Cal regulations
• In-person services require travel to client's home and community locations, include the Sacramento and Stockton regions
• Must be able/willing to provide services in person depending on the safety issues and needs of the client (or via telehealth)
• Ability to work a flexible schedule as work is performed at various times of the day, and days of the week, including some weekends

Needed Upon Hire

• CA Clinical Licensure (LCSW, LMFT, LPCC) with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences
• Master's Degree in related field (Master of Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Counseling Psychology, Clinical Mental Health Counseling)
• First Aid/CPR Certified or obtain shortly after hire
• Ability to obtain fingerprint and government background clearances

Desired Experience

• Experience with in-home or community based services for children and families
• Proven track record of implementing evidenced based or evidenced based informed models of service delivery
• Experience in social services and system involved youth
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Experience with EPSDT Medi-Cal funded programs
• Experience working as part of a treatment team providing intensive services
• Spanish/English bilingual a plus! (Differential offered for Spanish fluency)

Driving Requirements

This position requires the employee to work out in the community and within foster homes throughout the Sacramento, CA and occasionally the Stockton/San Joaquin, CA regions. Thus, position requires employee to possess a valid CA driver's license and valid automobile insurance with his/her name on the verification card as an insured driver on the policy at all times. Position requires daily access to a car in safe working order.

We Offer

• Salary range: $72,100 - $78,766/year, with opportunity for bi-annual bonuses
• Additional pay differential offered for CA Clinical Licensure (MFT, LCSW) of $3,000/annually
• Additional language differential offered for Spanish language fluency of $5,000/year (must be fluent)
• Stipend to support licensure process and outside training
• Various in-house training on modalities including family therapy, play therapy, trauma-informed practices, culturally responsive practices, Triple P Positive Parenting, early childhood mental health, navigating the child welfare system, and other evidence-based models such as CBT and DBT
• We qualify as a public service loan forgiveness agency
• A professional and supportive work environment
• Benefits package which includes:
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Chiropractic and Acupuncture
  • Flex-spending options
  • Life and disability insurance
  • 403(b) option
  • Over 8 weeks time off annually! (11 vacation days the first year - accruals starting on your 1st day and progress up to 20 days a year! 12 paid holidays including your birthday off & 12 sick days annually!)

AFS makes substantial monthly contributions on your behalf to keep out of pocket premiums at an all time low!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of Ancestry, Age, Color, Disability, Genetic Information, Gender, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Marital status, Medical condition, Military or veteran status, National origin, Race, Religion, Sex, or Sexual orientation.