Behavioral Health Clinician II, Lead

Overview

La Clinica de La Raza is a non-profit, community-based health center established in 1971 to address health barriers and create better lives for the underserved. We have proudly grown into over 35 sites across Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano County. To learn more about our history, visit Our History - La Clinica or the website linica.org.

This is a direct service position that provides clinical services in the clinic and in the field to clients living with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness. In addition, this position coordinates services by a team of non-clinician members of the care team.

You May Be Eligible For a Retention Bonus With Alliance

• Dependent on providing funder with documentation that clinician is actively serving alliance members
• 1st payment - $25,000 (within 90 days of hire), 2nd payment $25,000 (2nd year of service) + $5,000 for bilingual, final payment $25,000 + $5,000; total $85,000
• If they are not bilingual, the award amount will be $75,000

• Lead Responsibilities:
  Serves as Lead of Service Team, and performs coordination functions for Service Team clients, and coordinating services by case managers that ensure access and utilization of primary care, psychiatry, substance use treatment and other person-centered social services.
• Lead Responsibilities:
  Serves as Lead of Service Team by reporting to clinical leadership and guiding the work of unlicensed clinicians and interns as needed, providing crisis consultation.

• Provides treatment and services for clients living with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) drawing from a Person-Centered Model of Community Behavioral Health.
• Provides treatment and services for clients living with SPMI by incorporating the multidisciplinary Recovery Model into the assessment of health and wellness in each of the eight dimensions of wellness.
• Screens and performs culturally responsive comprehensive mental health assessments to establish diagnoses, and provides crisis intervention/ stabilization, individual, family and group therapy, psychoeducation, individualized treatment planning, goal setting, collateral services, progress monitoring, and care coordination.
• Implements and monitors social skills rehabilitation to improve completion of Activities of Daily Living in the home, community, inpatient and forensic settings and supports individuals living with SPMI in establishing their mental health homes.
• Ensures the delivery of quality services through the effective use of standardized outcome measures and other psychometrics.
• Participates in staff meetings, trainings, case conferences, and peer review process.
• Conducts other clinical, administrative, and operational duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of DSM-5, Especially with diagnoses of focus, including Mood/Affective Disorders, Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Personality Disorders, Substance Use/Dependency Disorders.
• Knowledge of the principles and techniques of individual and family therapy, social rehabilitation, recovery and wellness, risk/harm reduction for Severe and Persistent Mental Illness, Substance Use Disorders, and co-occurring disorders.