Sr. Clinician/ Clinical Supervisor

The Artful Life Counseling Center & Studio•Beverly, MA

27d•$89,000 - $105,000

About The Position

The Artful Life Counseling Center and Studio is a mental health group practice in Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, supporting children, adolescents, and adults through counseling strategies that encourage creative expression. The practice’s mission is to create a welcoming space that supports mental wellness for clients and staff, and its values include connection, remarkable service, engagement, abundance, transparency, equity, and inclusion. The Senior Clinician/Clinical Supervisor is a leadership role responsible for protecting the practice’s clinical integrity, sustainability, and mentorship culture. The supervisor maintains a clinical caseload while providing ethical, thoughtful supervision, modeling alignment with the practice’s mission and values, protecting documentation standards and fiscal sustainability, and contributing to leadership conversations and practice development. This is a full-time, overtime-exempt salaried position averaging 35–40 work hours per week. Approximately 25–30 hours are client-related, with remaining hours dedicated to the clinical supervisor role. Full-time supervisors must make 23–25 client sessions available weekly and meet a yearly minimum of 1,020 billed clinical hours, with productivity tracked in the approved ALC Clinical Hour tracker. The role includes supervision and mentorship of provisionally licensed clinicians, documentation and performance accountability, clinical quality improvement, and collaboration with practice leadership and staff.

Requirements

Three years of post-licensure counseling experience as an LMHC, or one year of post-licensure experience as an LICSW.
Complete internal ALC Supervisory Training/Orientation before supervising clinicians.
Have a successful track record as a clinician at The Artful Life across all areas of the Clinician job description.
Align with The Artful Life’s mission, vision, and values.
Know the roles and duties of ALC leadership and clinical positions and functions.
Understand ALC’s client experience goals and how to achieve client satisfaction.
Demonstrate punctuality, organization, attention to detail, teamwork, and the ability to work independently on assigned tasks.
Have strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
Make independent decisions regarding supervisee management; accept and act on direct, constructive feedback; and make difficult decisions and lead challenging conversations with candor.
Remain stationary for up to an hour at a time, climb a flight of stairs, and meet close-vision requirements for computer work.

Responsibilities

Maintain a clinical caseload and meet the yearly minimum of 1,020 billed clinical hours; make 23–25 client sessions available per week and track hours in the approved ALC Clinical Hour tracker.
Apply the practice’s policies and philosophy, and use DEI-informed and anti-oppressive frameworks in clinical practice and supervision.
Provide clinical supervision to an average of two provisionally licensed clinicians per year, with coverage for other supervisees as needed.
Facilitate up to two fundamentals or masterclass continuing-education events annually in an approved topic.
Provide coverage for weekly Clinical Team Supervision as needed and brief clinical support to supervisees within the stated limits.
Give constructive feedback and support supervisees’ competence, confidence, professional learning, and wellbeing.
Document supervision meetings, develop collaborative measurable goals with supervisees, and review goals at 90 days, six months, and one year in coordination with the Clinical Director.
Maintain an honest and open supervision relationship, request a review when a supervisory relationship is not effective, and maintain confidentiality regarding supervisees outside the practice.
Review and co-sign progress notes for provisionally licensed supervisees within 48 hours of each session.
Hold clinicians accountable for note content, documentation timeliness, and performance of job duties; monitor supervisees’ ethics, standards, and competencies.
Provide feedback to the Clinical Director about supervisees at 90 days and at each subsequent six-month performance review.
Participate in candidate interviews when requested and identify opportunities to improve clinical services and the client experience.
Help supervisees understand how caseload management and timely, appropriate documentation relate to the practice’s fiscal viability; use the Weekly Session Average Calculator proficiently.
Meet monthly with the Lead Supervisor to review supervisee needs and progress, and notify Directors of concerns or questions.
Coordinate as needed with the New Hire Mentor and Client Care Manager, and refer issues to Human Resources, co-owners, or other internal resources when appropriate.