Senior Clinical Therapist - Linkage, Integration, Navigation, and CARE (LINC)

Posting number: 26-79746-09JH

Department: Behavioral Health

Division: INPATIENT DISCHARGE PLANNING

Job classification: SENIOR CLINICAL THERAPIST

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Community Services, Health Services, Mental Health, Social Services, Human Services, Health Sciences, Counseling, Community and Social Services

Summary

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 Senior Clinical Therapist 

 Linkage, Integration, Navagation, and CARE (LINC)

 Linkage, Integration, Navagation, and CARE (LINC), Riverside, CA.

The Riverside University Health System (RUHS), Behavioral Health Department (BH), Linkage, Integration, Navagation, and CARE (LINC) program, is seeking a Senior Clinical Therapist to join our Riverside office. The LINC program is a structured, collaborative process that begins at the time of admission and ensures a safe and coordinated transition from hospital to community-based care. The Senior Clinical Terapist will conduct biopsychosocial assessments, provide discharge planning services to secure follow up BH services and/or housing for patients leaving inpatient psychiatric facilities, provide guidance/training to multidisciplinary team and provide clinical supervision to unlicensed clinical therapists.  

This position will work with Clinical Therapist, Behavioral Health Specialist, Peer Specialists, and Community Service Assistants to assist consumers  with behavioraal health conditions that have resulted in hospitalization step-down to recieve less intense treatment in community facilities.  

This position will work a 9/80 schedule and will require some driving therefore a California 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 Hea