Pediatric Behavioral Health Clinical Lead

Pediatric Behavioral Health Clinical Lead

Full Time | Exempt

School-Based Health Centers

Are you interested in serving people through exceptional, affordable, and compassionate care and inspiring all those you touch to lead full and healthy lives?

At La Clinica, we love our patients and enthusiastically treat them with the same care, respect, and dignity that we would our friends, family, and neighbors because that's who they are. If this appeals to you, La Clinica might be the right place for you to build your career. We’re looking for the right team members to treat our patients with this level of care.

We invest in our employees' lives through competitive pay, comprehensive benefits packages, easy access to wellness, personal and professional development workshops, and a focus on healthy work-life harmony. Check out our careers page to learn more about why our employees love working at La Clinica.

We are seeking candidates for leadership roles within the school-based health center behavioral health team. Clinical leads will be responsible for providing administrative and clinical training supervisory support to all behavioral health team members within their assigned team. This is a full-time position with a balance of 50% clinical and 50% administrative duties. In the clinical role, the Lead will hold a small caseload of youth needing ongoing mental health services. In the administrative portion of the role, the Lead will be responsible for supporting a team of behavioral health clinicians and support specialists with both administrative and clinical supervision oversight. This role will work closely with the other clinical leads and the behavioral health manager at school-based to support staff and program development of behavioral health services within the schools.

Accountabilities Include:

Clinical Care Duties:

• Provide ongoing individual group and family therapy to youth in a school setting.

Supervisory Duties:

• Oversights and approves time off, absences from work.
• Directs supervision, coaching, development and performance management of all behavioral health team members to include goal setting and evaluations of team members.
• Provides required clinical supervision of all team members ensuring the supervision effectively meets requirements for licensure where indicated.

Recruitment and Retention Duties:

• Participates on interview committees to make hiring decisions for behavioral health positions within the assigned team working in partnership with the BH Manager.
• Responsible for carrying out onboarding plans and training supports for new team members.

Operational Duties:

• Partners with the Behavioral Health Manager in developing content and setting direction for monthly staff meetings and educational opportunities.
• Trains team on efficient workflows and documentation standards as developed by the BH Manager.

Quality and Compliance Duties:

• Supports chart audit review process for both the BHC and BHSS roles.
• Holds co-signing/clinical oversight for documentation related to specific roles within the team (i.e. Signing pool responsibility for unlicensed clinicians).
• Ensures team compliance regarding the mental health tracking log being updated routinely.

Qualifications:

Must have at least 3-5 years’ experience in a primary role as mental health or behavioral health provider. Must be able to interact with a variety of individuals at various levels under stressful circumstances while exercising sound judgement, tact, and diplomacy; work productively both independently and in a team setting; communicate with clarity, both verbally and in writing to groups of all sizes and levels; possess the confidence and ability to make effective and persuasive presentations on controversial or complex topics to workforce members, leadership, and the governing board.

Education and/or Experience:

Required:

• At least three years of experience in the field
• Degree in Master’s level social work, marriage and family or counseling program
• Must hold a valid license with an Oregon counseling board for at least two years (LCSW, LPC, LMFT) and be eligible to provide clinical supervision for board registered associates in Oregon.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills
• Skills to intervene and promote reconciliation, compromise, and positive outcomes in difficult interactions.
• Skilled at using electronic health records as applicable to area of work (EPIC)

Preferred:

• Clinical supervision training to provide ongoing clinical supervision to unlicensed behavioral health clinicians.
• Experience in providing training to workforce members.
• Experience and knowledge of therapeutic interventions across the lifespan
• Basic knowledge of adult learning models

Equity Statement:

At La Clinica, we commit to engage everyone in a welcoming, respectful, and loving way and to maintain the dignity and value of all people above everything else. These standards align with our organization’s vision of absolute excellence, open-hearted community, and well-being for all.

For more information, please visit our website at: https://laclinicahealth.org/patients/approach/

Applications will be reviewed by the appropriate Department for interview; those selected must be able to provide proof of legal right to work in this country. La Clinica is a drug free work environment and Equal Opportunity Employer. La Clinica complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you consider yourself disabled and desire assistance in the application process, please contact the Human Resources Department.