Residential Clinician and Care Manager-this is a full-time (32 hours), exempt position located at our Vicente campus in San Francisco. The new hire for this position will receive a $5,000 bonus after a year of service. This is a pro-rated amount to hours worked.

Mission: We provide the people, place, and path for exceptional youth mental healthcare.

Vision: We aim to redefine what youth mental healthcare can be by delivering transformative support that doesn’t just treat symptoms but changes lives.

About Edgewood:

Each person who works at Edgewood Center for Children and Families shares a passion for making a difference in the lives of the children and families who we serve in the San Francisco Bay Area. Employees find themselves surrounded by a diverse and extraordinary group of dedicated professionals, in welcoming environments characterized by whole-person care, open communication, creative support and a commitment to growth, healing and improving each day. Edgewood’s successes come from our employees and the positive results they help create for children and families. When you join Edgewood, you join a culture of purpose and belonging, where your growth is a priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters.

Program description

Edgewood’s Acute Intensive Services program is a comprehensive short-term mental health program that offers a full spectrum of therapeutic support, ranging from Residential treatment to Intensive Outpatient support. The Residential program in AIS works to stabilize, assess, and provide care to youth who have recently experienced a mental health crisis and received emergency mental health services such as hospitalization, or are at risk of a significant mental health crisis. These youth reside on Edgewood’s campus on a short-term basis in order to receive intensive mental health treatment and support.

Position Description

Residential Clinicians and Care Managers provide intensive strategies to address any current need for stabilization, crisis intervention and individual, family and group trauma-focused treatment. Therapist/Care Managers must have strong clinical and advocacy skills, demonstrate flexibility, utilize a strengths-based approach, and have experience working with children and adolescents with high mental health needs. Residential Clinicians and Care Managers work as an integral member of multi-disciplinary milieu teams that address the child or youth's educational, behavioral and mental health needs. The Residential and Care Manager adheres to all agency and EPSDT billing and documentation requirements and works with the Clinical Supervisor (or Clinical Leadership Team) to identify policies, procedures, and training needs.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a caseload of clients that facilitates the ability to meet client service hours' goal as set by the agency.
• Provides clinical presence and support in Residential Cottage.
• Provides mental health screening to assess cognitive, emotional, and social functioning and needs; facilitates the identification and engagement in mental health services such as individual, family, and group therapy.
• Provides crisis intervention and stabilization when appropriate.
• Coordinates services with other agencies and resources to address youth's needs including medical/physical health, mental health, education, employment, independent living skills, advocacy, placement stability, and age-appropriate enrichment activities.
• Assists youth in identifying and accessing community resources as needed.
• Works collaboratively on behalf of clients as needed with outpatient providers, school personnel, parents and caregivers, and others.
• Complies with Edgewood Center for Children and Families and California State Boards' requirements pertaining to supervision, consultation, and case conference attendance.
• Understands and complies with policies, procedures, and deadlines related to record keeping, paperwork, and documentation for Edgewood Center and EPSDT Medi-Cal billing purposes
• Participates in agency and program meetings and professional development training as required.
• Works proactively with the Clinical Supervisor (or Clinical Leadership Team) to ensure the strength of the program and attend to other tasks as needed.

Core Competencies

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of trauma and its impact on adolescent development and behavior. Applies trauma-informed approached to assessment, treatment planning, and intervention, fostering a sense of safety, empowerment, and trust with youth who have experienced complex trauma.

• Skilled in providing developmentally appropriate, evidence-based clinical interventions to adolescents with emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges as well as their families. Able to build therapeutic rapport, conduct thorough assessments, and implement individual and group therapy modalities tailored to the unique needs of youth in a residential setting.

• Contributes positively to creating a healing-centered, welcoming, anti-racist, LGBTQ+ affirming team and organization.

• Demonstrated cultural competency, humility, and sensitivity treating youth, families, and colleagues with dignity and respect.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (Master's or Doctorate) in clinical psychology, social work or related field required. Current CA Board of Behavioral Science or Board of Psychology license and/or registration.
• California License Preferred (LCSW, LMFT, Licensed Psychologist)
• Based on our funding sources, California Department of Mental Health requires all unlicensed psychologists to apply for a professional licensing waiver or show proof of valid waiver prior to hire date.
• Direct clinical experience working with high-risk children and youth.
• Clean California DMV and insurance
• Experience providing individual, family and group therapy to children and adolescents.

preferred Qualifications

• Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in working with diverse communities.
• Experience working with children and families that have been or are involved in issues relating to abuse (e.g., verbal, physical, sexual, and neglect) and trauma.
• Experience working with a variety of treatment modalities including family systems work, DBT, CBT, group therapy, etc.
• Awareness of substance abuse issues and how they impact a family system.

The salary for this position is: $68,035.97-$88,331.44 depending on years of clinical experience and bi-lingual language skills. As part of our team, benefits-eligible employees receive an excellent comprehensive benefits package:

• 16 days of PTO the first year and more thereafter

• Nine paid holidays

• Five health and wellness days off annually

• 10% additional pay for community-relevant second language fluency

• Medical/Dental/and Vision plans

• 403 B Retirement Plan with agency match

• Employee Assistance Program

• Commuter Benefits Program

• Medical and Childcare Flexible Spending Accounts

• Pet Insurance

• Identity Theft Protection Plan

• Paid employee referral program

• Career advancement opportunities

• Retention bonuses for many positions

• Continuing Education expense reimbursement

• Professional licensing fee reimbursement

• Professional Development reimbursement opportunities

• Verified Public Service Loan Forgiveness Employer

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

NOTE: The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued new requirements for health care and congregant care facilities to decrease the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks. Based on the CDPH public health mandate, all candidates for positions at Edgewood Center must provide proof of vaccination. Edgewood Center will consider applicants with ADA and Title VII exemptions on a case-by-case basis.

Equal Opportunity

Edgewood is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. People of color, women, persons with disabilities, and persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex are encouraged to apply. Edgewood maintains a policy of non-discrimination with respect to employees and applicants for employment. No aspect of employment will be influenced in any matter by race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, physical disability (including HIV or AIDS), medical condition, perceived physical disability, veteran status or any other basis prohibited by statute.