Lead Mental Health Clinician - Warren Village Inc.

Hiring range of: $69,460 – $79,960 DOE and licensure

Summary/objective:

The Lead Mental Health Clinician serves two main functions: 1) provides services and counseling for youth ages 0-26 and/or their caregivers and 2) provides leadership and management of the mental health program, including supervising one staff clinician. Main program areas of emphasis in the mental health program are individual counseling for youth and parents/caregivers, with expertise in early childhood mental health, and school-age youth, with additional focus on removing cultural barriers and addressing stigma to increase participation in mental health services. This position is also responsible for collaboration efforts and initiatives related to health and well-being for all 92 families in the community, including, but not limited to: program design and implementation, direct services, staff consultation, assessment, and ongoing communication with community partners.

Warren Village recognizes that our backgrounds are broad, and our talents are many, from different lived experiences.  We value and leverage our differences to encompass and reflect the communities we serve.  We align our policies, practices, and resources so that people of all races, cultures, identities, and socioeconomic status may feel valued and respected.

At Warren Village, we uphold organizational values of accountability, collaboration, empowerment, excellence, inclusion, and integrity. We agree to engage our work together with honesty and transparency, clear decision-making, continuous learning and improvement, a commitment to repair, community building, and collective growth and well-being.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Design and implement strengths-focused, family-centered, culturally competent, mental health services for children, adolescents, adults, and families to promote healthy development, resilience and coping skills.
• Promote a trauma-informed environment of wellbeing that engages and empowers youth and their caregivers to create and support healthy relationships and reach their goals.
• Provide therapy for children, adolescents, adults and families served. This may include play therapy, individual psychotherapy, group therapy, and family therapy for youth and their caregivers.
• Provide individual therapy for youth parents ages 18-26 as a primary focus.
• Provide individual therapy for parents over the age of 26.
• Provide crisis intervention for children, adolescents, adults and families.
• Develop individualized treatment plans utilizing a trauma-informed care focus and culturally sensitive practices. Provide ongoing assessments and reviews of treatment progress on a regular basis.
• Responsible for all required clinical and administrative documentation.

• Outreach, recruit, and engage clients in mental health services.
• Facilitate process of referral, intake, and assessment for Warren Village mental health services.
• Use a wide variety of engagement techniques to promote accessibility of services.
• Provide community events and enrichment opportunities for youth and parents with a strong emphasis in skill building, stress management, healthy relationships, secure attachment, self-regulation, and executive functioning skills.
• Collaborate with Warren Village Kids' Club staff to support greater social-emotional growth for youth.
• Provide training, consultation, and support to Kids' Club staff for greater youth success and/or behavioral intervention support.
• Provide monthly psycho-educational Evening Enrichment Classes for parents on a variety of social-emotional topics.
• Provide consultation to team members on clinical and casework issues as appropriate.
• Participate in meetings including, but not limited to, team/departmental meetings, all staff meetings, and supervisory sessions.
• Promote the goals of the organization through tours, presentations and written articles, as needed.

Specific Duties for Lead Mental Health Clinician:

• Oversee the data collection, therapy attendance, and program evaluation efforts for the Mental Health Program.
• Directly supervise the Mental Health Program staff and interns, including hiring, training, motivating and evaluating performance.
• Oversee client waitlists and the referral and intake process for all Mental Health Clinicians on the team.
• Support in the development and administration of the Mental Health Program budget.
• Maintain open channels of communication and sharing of information with the Director of Family Wellness to collaboratively ensure the development of goals for the Mental Health Program, aligned with Warren Village’s overarching strategic vision.

Other duties as assigned.

Competencies: 

• Commitment to the mission, goals, and values of Warren Village as stated in the Summary above.
• Technology systems aptitude. Demonstrated proficiency of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Ability to work occasional evening and weekend hours within the work week. Flexibility to adapt therapy schedule to meet the evolving needs and dynamics of the community.

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Master's degree (MA) or equivalent, in Social Work or another mental health discipline.
• Two years minimum experience working in mental health field with children, youth and families.
• 1 year of experience supervising a staff member
• Clinical license from Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies.

Preferred education eligibility requirements (Certifications, Licenses, etc.), and/or experience: 

• Bilingual (Spanish, French, Arabic or Swahili) highly preferred. 
• Lived experience in homelessness or housing instability, including an alumni of Warren Village. 
• If driving is required, employee must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive Warren Village vehicles.  

Work Environment: 

The working environment is typically that of an office using a personal computer, adding machine, and other equipment. Schedule is flexible and non-traditional; based around the availability of youth and families served.