School-Based Clinician

School-Based Clinician

Children & Adolescents
📍 McPherson, KS
🕒 Full-Time

Prairie View is seeking a School-Based Clinician to provide comprehensive mental health services to children and adolescents within educational settings. This role is ideal for clinicians who are passionate about early intervention, collaboration with schools, and supporting students’ emotional and behavioral well-being in a structured, community-based environment.

💙 About the Role

As a School-Based Clinician, you will deliver evidence-based mental health services directly in school settings, working closely with students, families, and school staff. You’ll assess needs, develop individualized treatment plans, and provide therapy that supports both clinical outcomes and academic success.

This role requires strong clinical skills, independence in managing a caseload, and the ability to collaborate effectively with educators and interdisciplinary teams.

🧠 What You’ll Do

• Provide individual and family therapy to children and adolescents using evidence-based practices

• Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments and evaluations

• Develop and implement individualized treatment plans

• Collaborate with school administrators, teachers, counselors, and special education staff

• Participate in clinical supervision, team meetings, and administrative meetings

• Communicate regularly with referral sources and community partners

• Coordinate with utilization review staff to ensure appropriate service authorization

• Maintain timely, accurate clinical documentation

• Independently manage your schedule to meet client, school, and organizational needs

🌱 Why Join Prairie View?

You’ll be part of a mission-driven behavioral health organization committed to providing compassionate, high-quality care with dignity and respect. Prairie View values collaboration, professional growth, and clinician support.

We offer:

• Ongoing clinical supervision

• Training and professional development opportunities

• A supportive, team-oriented work environment

• Minimum Education:  Professional independent licensure in State of Kansas is required; LSCSW, LMLP, Psy. D, Ph.D, LPCP or LCMFT preferred; if LMSW, LMFT, or LMLP, must be working toward clinical independent licensure.
• Minimum Experience:  Practicum, internship, or other experience working with children and adolescents, adults, families and group work  and experience coordination of services with other State Protective and private collateral agencies is required
• Must have good listening skills, verbal skills, and written communication skills
• Must be able to observe patient demeanor and nonverbal communication for assessment purposes
• Must be able and willing to have some flexibility in scheduling, to meet patient and organization needs
• Must maintain Kansas State licensure and appropriate CEU’s
• Must be able to communicate effectively with referral sources and external care providers
• Must have credentials or experience sufficient to be privileged to do outpatient admissions, individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, neuropsychological and psychological testing (as appropriate to credentials) and collateral consultations
• Must be proficient at basic keyboarding/word processing skills
• Must be able to pass Kansas Bureau of Investigation Screen, Central Registry Screen, and DCF (Kansas Dept. for Children & Families, formerly SRS) background check