Mental Health Clinician (ACSW) - Street Outreach

Summary

DWC is seeking a full time Mental Health Clinician for the Street Outreach Team to provide comprehensive, trauma-informed care to unaccompanied women and women with children experiencing homelessness. This person will provide clinical case management services with a focus on linking women to housing and will engage women in an ongoing assessment of needs, goal-setting, resource linkage, skill-building, and mental health support. This position is a member of the Clinical Department, and will work in collaboration with other professionals, and report directly to the Clinical Program Manager.

Essential Functions

• Perform clinical case management activities for DWC's Street Outreach Team
• Provide strengths-based case management support to assist women in obtaining stable housing
• Provide trauma informed, culturally responsive therapeutic services to participants, including individual and group therapy and crisis intervention
• Carry a caseload of 3-5 therapy clients and provide brief, evidence-based treatment to survivors of crime
• Conduct biopsychosocial assessments and engage participants in establishing goals for mental health treatment and recovery
• Provide field-based services including independent living skills, housing stabilization, benefits establishment, and referrals to community providers for substance abuse, vocational, health and mental health services
• Collaborate with clients to develop individualized treatment plans that address short- and long-term goals
• Provide trauma-informed client care using motivational interviewing, harm-reduction and de-escalation techniques as needed
• Provide crisis intervention, including suicide, homicide, and child abuse assessments and facilitate safety planning and follow-up interventions
• Provide clinical support and consultation to staff working with unaccompanied women and women with children in crisis.
• Attend weekly team meetings and regular one-on-one supervision.
• Represent DWC at Skid Row care coordination meetings for unsheltered women.
• Maintain professional relationships and communication with partner agencies.
• Comply with local, state, and federal laws and regulations around confidentiality.
• Provide client-centered services in a manner consistent with the DWC mission.
• Maintain accurate and timely data collection, records, case management notes, and services provided to each client.
• Provide regular, written reports to the Outreach & Engagement Manager and additional reports as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned to support the mission of the organization.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Competencies

Supervisory Responsibility

This position does not have direct reports. This position may require offering support and clinical guidance to Master's level student interns.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time exempt position. Days and hours of work are Monday - Friday 8 : 00 AM- 4 : 30 PM.

Travel

Regular travel throughout Los Angeles County is required in this position. Must be able to walk the perimeter of the Skid Row neighborhood to conduct outreach to unsheltered women and meet with community providers.

Work Location

Expectation to work in the office five days per week. Must be able to work on-site as scheduled for in-person meetings and trainings.

Required Education, Experience, and Qualifications :

Pay Range

$74,550-75,050 / yearly

Work Authorization / Security Clearance (if applicable)

Being authorized to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment. DWC does not sponsor employment visas, such as H-1B.

Fair Chance Act Statement

Downtown Women's Center will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act. You do not need to disclose your criminal history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Downtown Women's Center is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report. Find out more about the Fair Chance Act by visiting the Civil Right's Department Fair Chance Act webpage.

Downtown Women's Center provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants and actively seeks candidates who reflect the rich diversity of the communities that we serve. We are committed to a work environment that embraces and promotes individuality and inclusion. We believe that diversity and inclusion of varied perspectives, backgrounds, and life experiences is essential to our organization's effectiveness, and allows us to serve our clients in the respectful, responsive, and understanding way that they deserve. We define diversity in broad terms to include race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, mental or physical disability, marital status, pregnancy, military and veteran status, medical condition, geography, socio-economic status, and other unique attributes that make us who we are.

Downtown Women's Center complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Pay Range : $74,550 - $75,050 per year