Mental Health Clinician
Mental Health Clinician
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06-04-2025
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Mental Health Clinician Sacramento
Here is your opportunity to join a team committed to creating a positive impact in the lives of vulnerable and underserved children and their families. As a Mental Health Clinician youll 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 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 missiondriven agency. In this fulltime role you will be fully trained in MediCal 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 familycentered strengthbased 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 wellbeing in communities. We provide a wide range of foster adoption mental health and transitionaged 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 deescalation of conflict and positive communication
- Document delivery of service via daily progress notes
- Services may be offered via telehealth or inperson depending on the needs of the client and assessment of safety issues
- Maintain client charts to ensure compliance with MediCal regulations
- Inperson services require travel to clients home or other community locations which may be outside Sacramento area
- Must be able/willing to provide services via telehealth or in person depending on the safety issues and needs of the client
- Ability to work a flexible schedule as work is performed at various times of the day and days of the week including some weekends
Desired
- Experience with inhome 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 MediCal funded programs
- Experience working as part of a treatment team providing intensive services
- Spanish/English bilingual a plus! (Differential offered for Spanish fluency)
Needed Upon Hire
- Licensure (LCSW LMFT LPCC) or registration (ASW AMFT APCC) with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
- Masters Degree in related field
- First Aid/CPR Certified
- Ability to obtain fingerprint and government background clearances
Driving Requirements
This position requires the employee to work out in the community and within foster homes throughout the Sacramento CA and Stockton/San JoaquinCA regions. Thus position requires employee to possess a valid CA drivers 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
- Starting salary $71333/year with opportunity for biannual bonuses
- Spanish fluency stipend additional $5000/year
- Licensure stipend additional $3000/year
- Stipend to support licensure process and outside training
- Various inhouse training on modalities including family therapy play therapy traumainformed practices culturally responsive practicesTriple P Positive Parenting early childhood mental health navigating the child welfare system and other evidencebased 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
- Flexspending 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.
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