Director of Mental Health - Bilingual Spanish - Relocation Available
The Wonderful Company
- Lost Hills, CA
- $165,000-170,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage a team of Social Workers and Therapists, serve as both a manager and a mentor to drive excellent staff performance.
- Manage the Family Wellness Center, School-based Social Workers, Lead Therapists, and Therapists, and serve as both a manager and a mentor to drive excellent staff performance and deliver high-quality services that are sensitive to diverse populations.
- Recommend, develop, and implement new programs enhancing quality of care and services for at-risk individuals, individuals with disabilities, and families. Primary focus on overseeing school student stress support.
- Consultative oversight of Clinical School Social Workers responsible for working collaboratively with partners to develop and implement treatment plans that support our partners with the Student Stress Support Program
- Consult and support the Clinical Social Worker in providing the necessary crisis intervention, student/family intervention, home visits, absenteeism monitor/truancy, high risk screening, brief counseling, referring for financial or other identified resource needs, arrange and facilitating student/family representative meetings with appropriate agencies or community resources when high risk students/individuals are identified.
- Develop and maintain rapport with the community, establish partnerships with mental health, substance abuse, employment, health, housing retention, and other services that will benefit our residents.
- Perform client centered interventions and crisis-oriented counseling as needed and conduct individual, group, and family counseling or support sessions as appropriate.
- Provide direction to staff in areas such as new policies, procedures, regulations, and new therapeutic modalities, including traditional healing activities.
- Audit and ensure the timely documentation and submission of all reporting and data documents.
- Travel is required to Lost Hills clinic, Delano clinic, Avenal clinic, Student Wellness Center, and Mobile clinic.
- Perform other duties assigned.
- Experienced in practicing from culturally sensitive, trauma-informed, and strengths-based. Experienced in working with underserved populations, including children, high-risk youth, and immigrants.
- Excellent interpersonal skills for establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with employees, other departments, patients, city staff, program partners, key stakeholders, and the public.
- Well-developed psychosocial assessment and crisis intervention skills.
- Supervision, mentoring and coaching of others, progressive discipline.
- Knowledgeable of HIPAA rules and compliance requirements
- Bilingual Spanish/English, required.
- Master's Degree in Social Work, Psychology or related field, required.
- Current and valid license issued by the State of California Board of Behavioral Sciences (LMFT, LCSW or LPCC).
- 10+ years' experience as a licensed clinician including experience in therapy, program management and development, staff supervision and training, budgeting and funding, partnership development, clinical intervention, and case management.
- 5+ years' experience managing a team and providing supervision.
- 2+ years' experience of School Social Work and FERPA
- Candidate must have available transportation and current California driver's license and insurance.
- Pay Range: $165,000 - $170,000 and is eligible for a discretionary bonus. Final compensation will be dependent upon skills & experience. Additionally, this position is eligible for a monthly car allowance.
- Continuing Medical Education allowance
- College scholarships for employees' children
- Competitive benefits packing including Medical, Vision, Dental, 401k, PTO, sick days, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement program and 100% of CA accreditation fees paid
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- Access to many Wonderful Company perks including the corporation health clinic and fitness center