Job Description
Description You've been thinking about supervision Not the credential — the thing itself. What it means to hold someone else's development. What separated the supervisors who formed you from the ones who didn't. Whether you're ready, and what ready would even feel like. You've probably looked at what's available. Most of what you've found offers supervision as an add-on: here's your caseload, and if you want, you can supervise an intern on the side. The supervision is incidental. The structure is thin. The feedback is mostly self-reported. That's not what you're looking for. What This Role Is Lorenz Clinic is hiring a Supervisory Resident, a licensed clinician who carries an active clinical caseload and enters a structured one-year formation program in clinical supervision. You will supervise one practicum student through a complete placement cycle. You will receive regular supervision of your supervision from a senior Training Director — not debriefing, but actual review of your supervisory work, including direct observation of your sessions. You will engage a curriculum grounded in Falender's competency-based approach to supervision. You will keep a reflective log of your supervisory learning, the same kind of reflective structure we ask of trainees at every other level. At the end of the year, your exit from this role requires three things: time completion, attainment of competency benchmarks, and evidence of positive outcomes in the supervised placement. All three. Not one. This is a training placement. The word resident is chosen deliberately. Why It's Structured This Way Supervision is a distinct clinical practice — not an extension of clinical skill, not a reward for years of service. Carol Falender has made the point plainly: just because you had parents does not make you a good parent. The same logic applies here. Most supervisors are made by assumption. They were good clinicians, so they were asked to supervise. What they received was a title and maybe a handbook. They learned supervision the hard way — through accumulated mistakes without anyone looking at their actual work. This role is designed differently. The supervisory load begins at one to two sessions per week, intentionally bounded. You will hold one supervisee through a full cycle before being cleared to take on more. That boundary is not a hedge on your capacity. It is how supervision is actually learned. Here is what this role asks of you, and what it gives back: the structure you are inside is the structure you are learning to provide. You will be supervised in supervision — held by someone more senior, with real feedback on your real supervisory work — while doing the same for a trainee who needs exactly that from you. If that sentence lands as meaningful rather than merely logical, this role may be the right one. What You'll Be Doing In this role, you will carry a full clinical caseload of approximately 25 sessions per week across individual, family, and/or group modalities. Alongside that, you will supervise one practicum student through a complete placement cycle, with the possibility of expanding to Post-Master's Fellow supervision in a second stage after clearance. You will meet regularly with a senior Training Director for supervision of your supervisory work — distinct from your clinical consultation — and participate in direct observation of your sessions rather than self-report alone. You will engage Falender's competency-based curriculum, maintain a reflective supervisory log, and complete a formal competency assessment at the one-year mark. Successful completion of this role leads to the titled Supervisor position within Lorenz Clinic's W-2 staff. That is the pipeline. There is no ambiguity about where this goes. What We're Offering Salary is set at market rate for licensed clinicians in the Twin Cities, deliberately. The compensation is not the draw. What we are offering is something the open market does not reliably provide: a formation environment for the supervisory role, with a senior practitioner engaged with your actual work, in an institution that treats supervision as a practice area worth taking seriously. If you complete this year well, you leave it a formed supervisor — not a clinician who happened to supervise. Who Should Apply You have been independently licensed for several years. You are technically strong and relationally serious. You have started to feel the edges of your clinical competence — not in a crisis way, but in the way that comes when a practice stops regularly challenging you. You have noticed the pull toward supervision, not just as a career direction but as a genuine question about what you are capable of holding. You want to be supervised. You want someone looking at your supervisory work — your actual sessions, not your account of them. You