Senior Clinical Therapist - Indio Children's Outpatient

Senior Clinical Therapist

Indio Children's Outpatient

The Riverside University Health System - Behavioral Health Department has an opening for a Senior Clinical Therapist position at the Indio Children's Outpatient Clinic.

We are looking for candidates who


* Are Licensed professionals (LCSW, LMFT, LPCC)


* Have a minimum of two years post-licensure experience


* Have strong computer and organizational skills


* Have supervisory/lead experience

For this recruitment, positions are eligible for a 10% DTR differential that is applied to hours worked.

At any time, this differential can be removed.

The certification list generated from this recruitment may be used to fill other future Senior Clinical Therapist vacancies within Behavioral Health that may occur.

The schedule for these positions will be a likely be 9/80 but the department is flexible.

Indio Children's Outpatient Clinic, Indio, CA
The Children's Clinic provides services to children and adolescents with severe emotional and behavioral problems.

Services include psychiatric evaluations, medication services, individual and family therapy, and case management services.

This position will provide supervision, oversight, program management alongside Clinical Therapist, Behavioral Health Specialist, Parent Partners, License Vocational Nurses, Psychiatry, and other office staff.

The Senior Clinical Therapist Classification

Under direction, performs the full range of therapeutic assignments related to the field of mental or behavioral health services and psychiatric social work, which includes the design and implementation of personalized treatment plans, individual and group psychotherapy, evaluations and investigations, and professional counseling, as applicable by professional licensing law, in order to meet the needs of consumers or families with mental or emotional disorders; and performs other related duties as required.

The Senior Clinical Therapist is the lead/advanced journey level of the Clinical Therapist series.

The Senior Clinical Therapist class has responsibility for providing clinical supervision, according to licensure and training, over unlicensed clinical staff.

This classification is also responsible for performing, within the scope of licensure, the full range of psychotherapy and counseling services for individual consumers, couples, families, and groups exhibiting a variety of mental health and related disorders in a clinic or institutional setting.

Assignments range from moderately difficult to the most complex and include serving in a lead capacity over and providing consultative support to other mental health treatment staff.

This classification is distinguished from the class of Mental Health Services Supervisor in that the latter class is the first line supervisor responsible for the planning or implementation of specialized mental health services.

The Senior Clinical Therapist is further distinguished from the Clinical Therapist II in that...