Job Description
For questions regarding this position, please contact the Recruiter listed in the Supplemental Information section. About The Position Senior Clinical Therapist LMFT, LCSW or LPCC Homeless Housing Opportunity, Partnership, and Education Homeless Housing Opportunity, Partnership, and Education , Riverside, Ca. Riverside University Health System’s (RUHS), Behavioral Health department’s (BH), Homeless Housing Opportunities, Partnership, and Education (HHOPE) program, provides housing and homeless services to our department and the community at large. The HHOPE program works with consumers who struggle with housing instability, homelessness, co-occurring, behavioral health, medical and substance abuse challenges. HHOPE provides a full continuum of housing and homeless services. HHOPE manages, coordinates, and monitors all programs providing housing support services. Permanent support housing includes HUD grants, shelter plus care, men’s grant, women’s grant, The Path, The Place and the MHSA projects Rancho Dorado and Vintage at Snowberry. Our Goal is also to partner with housing providers across the continuum of housing options to promote housing development, improve access to housing and to ensure effective supportive housing services to persons served in Riverside County. The Senior Clinical Therapist will provide supervision to unlicensed staff, handle high-acuity, complex, or specialized cases that require more in-depth experience, provide staff trainings, collaborate with community partners and interdisciplinary teams to offer effective coordination of care, ensure that documentation meets strict legal and professional standards, support staff in handling high-risk situations, including specialized assessments and crisis situations as well as be of support to program and program supervisors. This position has a 9/80 schedule and will work in the field therefore a driver’s license is required. 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 the former is the lead level and may provide extensive clinical supervision, according to licensure and training, over unlicensed clinical staff. For this recruitment, the position is eligible for a 10% DTR differential that is applied to hours physically 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 in the coming weeks. RUHS – Behavioral Health Meet the Team! Riverside University Health System – Behavioral Health is a leading provider of mental health and substance use services in Riverside County. With a dedicated team of professionals, including psychiatrists, clinicians, peer specialists, and paraprofessionals, RUHS-BH serves over 45,000 individuals annually. We are committed to delivering culturally competent, evidence-based care across all ages. Our programs, including Mental Health Services, Substance Use Services, and the Public Guardian’s Office, address the diverse needs of our community. At RUHS Behavioral Health, you’ll join a compassionate, innovative team where your skills make a