Mental Health Clinician III

Los Angeles LGBT Center•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

The Los Angeles LGBT Center is seeking a Mental Health Clinician III to join their Mental Health Services department. This role is responsible for providing individual, couple, and group counseling, documenting client progress, and utilizing a short-term treatment model. The clinician will also handle on-duty walk-ins, crisis calls, and general information calls. A key responsibility includes providing clinical supervision to unlicensed staff clinicians and interns. The Center's mission is to build a world where LGBT people thrive as healthy, equal, and complete members of society, and this role directly contributes to that mission by providing free or low-cost services to the LGBTQ community.

Requirements

Master’s in behavioral science discipline
Holds license as a Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor.
Ability to work under direct supervision.
Computer skills and knowledge including word processing, database operations, spreadsheets, and other software systems.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with people of diverse races, ethnicities, nationalities, sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expression, socio-economic backgrounds, religions, ages, English-speaking abilities, immigration status, and physical abilities in a multicultural environment.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of or experience working with the LGBTQ community and familiarity with issues of particular relevance to LGBTQ people.
A passion for the Center’s work and its mission to make the world a better place for LGBTQ people.
Preferred post graduate counseling experience, i.e., residential care, social services, child welfare services, general counseling, chemical dependency treatment, juvenile justice, youth services, etc.
Ability to work as a team member dedicated to generating resources/services to gay, lesbian, bisexual, & transgender communities.
Bilingual skills, a plus (English/Spanish fluency preferred).
Ability to relate in a non-judgmental and respectful manner to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals, or people experiencing a wide variety of emotional and behavioral problems.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including strong organizational, detail and interpersonal skills.
With completion of 12 hours of CEU’s in Clinical Supervision, candidate may provide clinical supervision to unlicensed staff clinicians and/or interns.

Responsibilities

Conduct individual, couple and group counseling services for clients presenting to the MHS and documents progress in the client’s record immediately following the session.
Utilize short term model in treatment planning to the greatest extent possible; must receive concurrence of supervisor to extend number of sessions beyond the short-term model protocol.
Provide two hours of group supervision and individual supervision to two unlicensed staff clinicians and/or interns each week, as needed.
Serve on-duty for designated hours each week to handle walk-ins, whether crisis oriented or not, as well as general information and crisis telephone calls.
May complete Intake at the time of seeing a walk-in client if deemed appropriate.
Conduct Intakes, preparing the required documentation.
Participate in the multi-disciplinary Clinical Case Conference, presenting assigned cases as they come due for review.
Make appropriate referrals to services outside the Center, w/in and to other services within the Department, e.g., psychiatric evaluation; and follows up on those referrals with the client to assure appropriateness of the referral & continuity of care.
Participates and/or takes a leadership role in the Quality Improvement process practiced in the Clinic.
Adhere to the Utilization Management protocol used in the clinic to insure timely and appropriate client service.
Meet Performance Metrics such as, but not limited to, weekly/monthly visit targets.
Assume responsibility for completing all documentation in a timely, legible, and thorough manner, submitting client records at the end of each business day, and proper notification of changes in appointment schedule to supervisor and Administrative Support staff.
Participates, as assigned, in clinical supervision or consultation groups.
Mandatory attendance at any in-service training sessions.
Assists in the coordination of the work of paraprofessional volunteers and Mental Health Clinicians I and II.
Participation with supervisor and/or members of the MHS Management Team in program planning, program evaluation, dissemination activities and training.
With completion of 12 hours of CEU’s in Clinical Supervision, candidate may provide clinical supervision to unlicensed staff clinicians and/or interns.
Participate in staff meetings, planning meetings and other meetings as needed.
Other duties as assigned.