Clinical Supervisor

About the Organization:

DHTI is a community-based nonprofit organization located in Alameda County, CA, established in 2011. Our mission is to promote the health, well-being, and belonging of immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC communities by connecting them to healthcare career pathways in the U.S. and supporting immigrant and refugee mental health through wellness and early intervention programming and services.

Since 2019, DHTI has served as a provider of Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) services for Alameda County’s Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities through our Sidra Community Wellness program. In FY 2026/27, Sidra’s services will transition to the Specialty Mental Health Services (SMHS) Early Intervention (EI) model under the Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA).

About the Opportunity:

DHTI is hiring a Clinical Supervisor (CS) to support the clinical integrity and ethical oversight of SMHS Early Intervention services, and the well-being of staff providing services through this program.

SMHS Early Intervention programs include:

• Outreach

• Access and Linkage to Care
• Early Treatment Services and Supports

Position Summary:

The CS provides clinical supervision, documentation oversight, quality assurance guidance, and support to providers for Medi-Cal-compliant service delivery within DHTI’s SMHS EI program serving immigrant and refugee communities, including MENA populations.

The program will require Medi-Cal certification for DHTI’s office site, fee-for-service billing (Medi-Cal and Medi-Cal Administrative Activities billing), and requisite documentation and productivity standards.

This position reports to the Community Wellness Program Manager.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• • Non-licensed clinicians (registered ASW/AMFT, etc.)
    
  • Behavioral health interns

• Facilitate weekly group supervision and team case consultation for the full EI team ensuring multi-disciplinary team collaboration in the delivery of holistic early intervention SMHS requirements

• Support staff in delivering EI services including:

• • Determining level of care and stepped care as needed

• • Culturally responsive mental health treatment and support treatment

• • Determining risk and providing crisis intervention

• • Mental Health Consultation

• Culturally responsive individual and group-based support through treatment planning

• Review service documentation and progress notes to meet SMHS Medi-Cal standards.

• Provide written and verbal feedback to strengthen clinical formulation, medical necessity, treatment planning, and service coding

• Assist in developing systems that align with productivity standards

• Collaborate with Program Manager to support Medi-Cal certification readiness

• Provide guidance related to:

• • Ethically sound practice

• • Evidence-based treatment approaches with diverse clients

• • BHSA EI regulations

• • Documentation compliance

• • Audit preparedness

• • Clinical quality assurance

• Participate in monthly in-person training with the team focused on SMHS service delivery, documentation, clinical skill-building, and staff care and wellbeing.

• Meet weekly with Program Manager for case consultation, productivity monitoring, and program alignment.

• Identify learning themes and clinical teaching and coaching moments based on client presentations, role-played scenarios and best practices
• Maintain supervision notes and generate a process for verifying experience hours needed for licensure of ASW, AMFT interns; intervene with coverage and/or if client safety concerns arise

Minimum Qualifications:

• Active licensure in California as an LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, or equivalent

• Minimum 2 years of post-licensure experience providing clinical supervision by an appropriate licensing board

• Experience providing supervision within Medi-Cal or Specialty Mental Health settings

• Experience working with immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC communities

• Demonstrated expertise in trauma-informed, culturally responsive care

• Strong understanding of:

• • Delivering evidenced based mental health services that are trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and linguistically appropriate

• • SMHS documentation standards

• • Medical necessity criteria

• • Medi-Cal billing compliance

• • Productivity tracking

Preferred:

• Experience supervising non-licensed or peer-based mental health staff
• Bilingual/bicultural preferred (Arabic, Farsi, or Dari)
• Familiarity with California’s Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA) and the local behavioral health system