Position Summary

Lifeline Services is hiring a mental health clinician to support our growing team. The mental health will be responsible for providing comprehensive trauma-informed school based suicide Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) services in the North Inland and North Coastal regions. The HERE Now Program Clinician is responsible for providing education and trainings to school staff and gatekeepers to include: outreach and school-wide suicide prevention education, risk assessments, individual intervention services, and care coordination with area mental health support and services. Specifically, will work with district/school employees, youth, and parents in creating an overall school environment conducive to appropriate learning for students, promoting positive mental health, stigma reduction, and suicide prevention. This is a BBS registered intern role that will help our team implement suicide prevention and early intervention services to schools throughout inland and coastal North County area. This position is contracted through June 2025.

Required Education and Experience

• Masters Degree in counseling, social work or related field
• BBS-registered AMFT, ASW OR APCC
• Bilingual preferred
• Must be able to handle stressful and crisis situations tactfully and appropriately, and to seek supervision when necessary
• Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must possess reliable transportation as clinicians provide services at multiple sites (mileage reimbursed).

Responsibilities

• Implementation, and delivery of culturally-competent services on middle and high school campuses and in community locations that serve children, youth and transition aged youth (TAY), with suicide prevention and early intervention services in a culturally-sensitive and culturally-competent manner.
• Present an evidence-based curriculum, Signs of Suicide (including bullying prevention), to 7th- 12th grade students with the purpose of reducing risk and enhancing protective factors as well as facilitate mental health and safety trainings for parents/caregivers, district staff and community members.
• Plan, coordinate and conduct trainings to school staff and gatekeepers.
• Provide one-on-one safety assessments and crisis management to at-risk students and their families, while utilizing a trauma-informed care philosophy and recovery principles.
• Work with the school to connect high-risk youth to selected level (psychosocial group) and individual linkages. As needed, provide individual intervention services to youth identified as "at-risk" based upon assessment.
• Care coordination with area mental health support and services as well as other needed services for youth/ families with depression, other mental health problems, substance abuse or whose history of trauma would indicate a high risk for suicide or self-harm.
• Work in and through the County of San Diego CSOC Principles.
• Work collaboratively and cooperatively with staff and volunteers within the program, the agency, and the community.
• Participate in all required trainings and consultation/supervisions.
• Attend all required agency and county trainings and meetings.
• Maintain accurate and timely uniform record documentation. Maintain data collection and contract compliance of records as required.
• Maintain clear, effective and open communication.
• Work with school personnel and families to reduce disparities and stigma in accessing mental health services and to provide high quality services to youth and families.
• Maintain confidentiality and privacy standards of service-partners' protected health information and other applicable information and material in accordance to agency and center policies, and applicable regulations and laws, including HIPAA.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

Schedule/Compensation

• Full-time, non-exempt
• Monday - Friday, 8 hours/day, on-site
• $30-$33 Salary will commensurate with experience and education. Differential pay offered for bilingual skills. EEO.
• Job Location: School based, throughout North County Middle and High Schools

Additional Requirement

• Must have a valid driver's license and reliable transportation with a good driving record.
• Willing to use own, properly insured, reliable vehicle for the job (mileage reimbursed).
• Employment subject to clearances, including background finger printing checks, driving record, tuberculosis testing, and drug testing.