Clinical supervisor Jobs in Berkeley, CA

WestCoast Children’s Clinic, located in Oakland, California, is a non-profit community psychology clinic that provides mental health services to Bay Area children, youth and families. Working at WestCoast Children’s Clinic means being part of an organization that is client-centered, trauma-informed, collaborative, and committed to justice and equity.

The  Clinical Supervisor  (various programs) is experienced in training and evaluating practitioners in providing community-based mental health services for children, teens, and families. The preferred candidate is proficient in supervising all aspects of service delivery from a multidisciplinary team-based approach, monitoring service delivery, and in developing staff competencies especially for providers who are still in training or who are early career practitioners.

The supervisor’s core responsibility is ensuring the quality and effectiveness of staff who provide community-based mental health care services, and in helping practitioners continue to develop their professional competencies. The Clinical Supervisor is responsible that supervisees meet all applicable licensing, supervision, billing and documentation requirements. The Clinical Supervisor works collaboratively with WestCoast Program Directors to identify policies, procedures, and training needs.

A full-time supervisor should expect to supervise 7-10 staff serving approximately 70-80 individual clients.

Our Programs

C-Change : Transforming the Lives of Sexually Exploited Minors

C-Change is an intensive mental health program that helps children heal from sexual exploitation. C-Change staff build relationships with exploited youth and stay with them through all stages of recovery.

Outpatient Program

The Outpatient Therapy Program provides long-term individual and family psychotherapy, parent guidance, and clinical case management services and aims to help children develop adaptive coping mechanisms, positive relational skills, and to facilitate their healthy development.

STAT (Screening, Stabilization, and Transition) Program

The STAT program is committed to helping children cope with the trauma of abuse and neglect as well as minimizing the impact on children of being separated from their family and community.

Assessment

Assessment is a collaborative process that combines psychological testing with practical interventions to help children and their families better understand a child’s symptoms and behaviors. The Assessment Clinical Supervisor is responsible for supervision and / or consultation, and training of pre-doctoral interns, post-doctoral clinicians, and licensed program staff in the Assessment Program of WestCoast Children's Clinic.

Responsibilities :

• Provide direct, individual and group clinical supervision for providers (including trainees, prelicensed, non-licensed, and licensed staff).
• Provide ongoing, regular feedback and evaluation to supervisees on their direct service and professional development.
• Solicit feedback from supervisees regarding supervision and whether needs are being met.
• Communicate quality of supervisee’s work to Program Director(s) in a timely manner.
• Ensure that supervisee complies with all legal and ethical practices, co-sign supervisee’s progress notes, clinical forms, and correspondence as a legal representative of WestCoast.
• Participate in WestCoast meetings, administrative program meetings and trainings as required.
• Provides annual performance evaluations of supervisee. (For interns, performance evaluations occur formally four times a year. Intern supervisors will also provide notes on training progress meetings, and have ongoing evaluation conversations with the Intern Training Program Director.)
• Adheres to requirements for supervisors as stipulated by WestCoast policies and procedures, Board of Psychology, Board of Behavioral Sciences, and the California Medical Board rules and regulations.
• Identify training needs to the Program Director.
• Monitors, supports and trains where needed to assist supervisee in meeting WestCoast service delivery expectation and caseload requirements, charting, record keeping, and documentation standards, and all other quality assurance standards.
• Aid the supervisee to develop training / professional development goals for the year, and collaboratively monitor progress toward those goals
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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This can be flexible to be a part-time or full-time position. Full-time salary range starting at $90,000-$96,000 base, and includes performance based compensation, comprehensive benefits package and 403(b) plan, as well as a 10% Spanish language differential for qualified candidates.

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Join us and make a difference in the lives of vulnerable children and families in the Bay Area.

WCC is passionate about leading and encouraging open conversations around race, gender, power, and privilege and how these impact community mental health. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diminishing the influence of privilege and discrimination in our field and our workplace, whether due to differences concerning age, citizenship, color, disability, marital or parental status, race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.