What are the responsibilities and job description for the Licensed Outpatient Clinician position at Children's Hope Alliance?
Description
Make an Impact Where It Matters Most
Do your best clinical work where it matters most—supporting children, adolescents, and adults in real-life settings. At Children’s Hope Alliance, our Licensed Clinicians play a vital role in delivering compassionate, evidence-based mental health and substance use services that create lasting change.
This is more than a clinical role—it’s an opportunity to build meaningful relationships, support healing, and grow professionally within a mission-driven organization focused on Hope, Health, and Healing for Generations.
Why Join Children’s Hope Alliance?
As a Licensed Clinician, you’ll provide high-quality, person-centered care while helping clients and families navigate challenges and build stability.
Deliver Transformational Clinical Care
Requirements
Education and Experience Requirements
Make an Impact Where It Matters Most
Do your best clinical work where it matters most—supporting children, adolescents, and adults in real-life settings. At Children’s Hope Alliance, our Licensed Clinicians play a vital role in delivering compassionate, evidence-based mental health and substance use services that create lasting change.
This is more than a clinical role—it’s an opportunity to build meaningful relationships, support healing, and grow professionally within a mission-driven organization focused on Hope, Health, and Healing for Generations.
Why Join Children’s Hope Alliance?
- Meaningful, mission-driven work serving diverse populations across the lifespan
- Flexible, community-based service delivery (clinic, home, school, and pediatric settings)
- Competitive pay and strong opportunities for professional growth and development
- Collaborative clinical environment with ongoing supervision and support
- Opportunity to expand expertise across mental health and substance use services
As a Licensed Clinician, you’ll provide high-quality, person-centered care while helping clients and families navigate challenges and build stability.
Deliver Transformational Clinical Care
- Provide individual, family, and group therapy using evidence-based approaches
- Complete comprehensive assessments, including trauma screenings, suicide risk, and crisis planning
- Develop thoughtful treatment plans that integrate clinical data, assessments, and collateral information
- Collaborate with families, providers, and community partners to coordinate care
- Connect individuals to essential services and supports
- Participate in treatment teams and contribute to meaningful, client-centered interventions
- Deliver services in a variety of real-world settings, including homes, schools, and clinics
- Help bridge gaps in access by meeting clients where they are
- Maintain timely, accurate documentation in compliance with service requirements
- Participate in clinical staffings, supervision, and team meetings
- Support program development and therapeutic activities
- Participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation to support crisis response and stabilization
Requirements
Education and Experience Requirements
- The position requires a Master’s Degree in a Human Service or related field.
- Valid full or provisional licensure in one of the following disciplines: LCSW, LMFT or LCMHC and LCAS. Successful applicants with associate licensure will receive support with supervision needs as well as with ongoing professional growth and development.
- Requires knowledge and the ability to practically implement mental health regulations and clinical services.
- Requires effective communication, decision making, analytical, interpersonal, leadership and professionalism skills and abilities.
- Trauma-informed knowledge and experience preferred
- Must have basic computer and math skills.
- Must have a valid North Carolina’s Driver’s License.
- Must submit to and pass pre-employment drug screening, criminal, HCPR and driving checks.
- 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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands or arms, stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
- Specifics vision abilities required by this position include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Physical functions which are considered essential to the satisfactory performance of the job include the following: reading, typing, writing, speaking, and using the telephone and prolonged sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Employee must be able to operate a vehicle for job duties, and keep a valid NC drivers license with insurance.
- The work environment will contain slight to moderate office-related noises. The employee is not exposed to extreme weather conditions, toxic fumes, or airborne particles.
- The employee must occasionally travel to different locations in the course of work.
- Physical functions which are considered essential to the satisfactory performance of the job include the following: public speaking, reading, typing, writing, using the telephone, driving, therapeutically restraining children and adolescents in crisis situations.