Mental Health Clinician Jobs in California

INTRODUCTION

Yu Ming Charter School seeks dynamic, innovative, and experienced educators to join our team, committed to nurturing lifelong learners who are bilingual, bicultural and able to create change in their own lives and in our community. We seek teachers that are excited by the possibility of transforming the traditional model of education to be learner-centered through personalized and project-based learning that cultivates both the cognitive and social emotional skills our students need to thrive in school and beyond. Yu Ming teachers are leaders that thrive on exploration, collaboration, and seek to continuously learn and grow as individuals and team members.

ABOUT YU MING CHARTER SCHOOL

Yu Ming Charter School is a non-profit, tuition-free network of public schools located in Oakland and San Leandro and open to all residents of California. As a leader in Mandarin Immersion education, our mission is to nurture our inclusive and diverse community to become empowered, engaged, and outstanding global citizens. We currently serve 1060 students across three campuses, and continue to grow our enrollment each year. Our intentionally diverse student body comes from many racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds representing 70 zip codes across the Bay Area and 29 home languages. Founded in 2011, Yu Ming is the first Mandarin immersion public charter school in the state. We believe every child, regardless of their background or zip code, deserves a free, high-quality education that prepares them today to succeed tomorrow. Ranked the #7 Elementary School and the #2 Elementary Charter School in California by U.S. News, Yu Ming is a 2019 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence and a 2020 and 2023 California Distinguished School. Yu Ming’s future-forward model prepares young people to succeed and thrive in an interconnected and multicultural world through personalized and rigorous learning experiences, active student agency, whole child and community focus, and multilingual education. As a result, our students far outperform their peers in the district, county, and state, regardless of socio-economic status, race, language background, and learning differences. We are closing the opportunity gap for our historically underserved students every day.

Position Summary

The Mental Health Clinician is a member of the Student Support Services Team, whose primary responsibilities are:

Supporting Tier 1 Socioemotional Supports For K-8th, Such As

- Leading and supporting Compass Circle and Badgework
- Psychoeducational programming for mental health issues (e.g., bullying, suicide prevention, mental health awareness month)
- Supporting the development and implementation of socioemotional practices in the classroom
- Implementing socioemotional screening for students twice a year
- Teacher and Parent Workshops on socioemotional or mental health issues
- Being a member of COST Team

Supporting Tier 2 Socioemotional Supports for K-8th grade, such as:

- Providing individual counseling for students referred to services through COST or 504 Plan
- Group Counseling
- Check In Check Out Coordinator
- Friendship (Social Skills/Social Thinking) Groups
- Teacher and Parent Consultation for individual student supports
- Suicide Risk Assessments
- Case management with county mental health systems

Supporting Tier 3 Socioemotional Supports for K-8th grade, which includes:

- Individual Counseling for students referred to services through the IEP process
- Group Counseling for students referred to services through the IEP process
- Case management with county mental health systems

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

A master's degree in psychology, counseling, social work, or a mental health discipline is required.

Licensure or Certification

- Must be professionally licensed in the mental health field in California, or be eligible and actively pursuing licensure OR
- Must have a CA teacher certification as a School Counselor or School Social Worker

Experience

- Prior experience of at least one year as a mental health clinician or supervised clinical experience is required
- Experience working in a school setting with a K-12 population is preferred
- Experience with Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness is desired

Skills

- The ability to develop knowledge of, respect for, and skills to engage with those of other cultures or backgrounds is required
- Demonstrates cultural competency/consciousness in working with diverse cultures is required
- Superb interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal; ability to work collaboratively with a diverse group of students, colleagues and families
- Flexibility and adaptability to change; ability to work in a dynamic, creative and start-up learning environment; ability to conduct tele-assessment and teletherapy services
- Maturity, humility, strong work ethic, sense of humor, and a solutions-oriented attitude

Responsibilities

- Facilitates the optimal functioning and well-being of students by providing individual and group counseling.
- Ensures that the concerns of students and families are addressed in an appropriate manner through psychological assessment procedures, making referrals when indicated.
- Promotes responsible care of students by maintaining documentation of client contacts, consultations, and referrals in accordance with professional guidelines.
- Ensures that the needs of students are addressed in emergency situations by providing crisis intervention services during office hours and after hours as needed.
- Provides educational workshops by participating in proactive outreach programming.
- Obtains additional relevant information and promotes self-understanding with students by suggesting and interpreting psychological tests.
- Facilitates the understanding of psychological issues and concerns of the school community by serving as a consultant.
- Maintains and enhances the quality and relevance of school based mental health services provided by the school through on-going evaluation of all services with the Director of Student Support Services.
- Ensures optimal operations of the school based mental health services by conferring with the Director of Student Support Services regarding administrative policies and procedures of the school.
- Provides input and remains current on operations of the school based mental health services by attending staff meetings.
- Acquires additional knowledge and skills in providing tele mental health services and counseling ethnic minorities and historically underrepresented individuals.
- Remains knowledgeable about current trends in counseling, psychotherapy, and student development by participating in professional development through presentations, publications and memberships in professional organizations and obtaining Continuing Education Units (CEUs) as required by the state licensing and regulatory boards.
- Contributes to a work environment that encourages knowledge of, respect for, and development of skills to engage with those of other cultures or backgrounds.
- Contributes to overall functioning of the school based mental health services by completing all other tasks which are assigned by the Director of Student Support services.

SUPERVISION

The Mental Health Clinician is supervised by the Director of Student Support Services and an additional licensed clinical supervisor if supervision hours are needed for licensure.

TIME COMMITMENT

Position is 0.8 FTE. 180-day school year, 8 student-free professional development days for collaboration with colleagues. Common building hours are 8:00am-3:30pm Monday, 8:00am-4pm Tuesday-Friday.

COMPENSATION

$72,000 - $90,000 depending on years of experience and license status, prorated to 0.8 FTE. Comprehensive benefits package for employees and dependents.

TO APPLY
Interested candidates should submit their resume at https://yumingcharterschool.bamboohr.com/jobs/ Application submission screening and initial phone interviews will be completed on a rolling basis.

Yu Ming Charter School is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity at all levels.