Clinical Supervisor/Therapist

Description

United American Indian Involvement (UAII) is the only Native led non-profit in Los Angeles County, proudly serving as a home for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Through our healthcare facility and culturally centered programs, we provide essential physical, behavioral, and spiritual health services—helping individuals stay connected to their Tribal heritage and traditions.

For over 50 years, UAII has grown to become the largest nonprofit provider of health and human services for American Indians and Alaska Natives in Los Angeles, home to the nation’s largest Urban Indian population. Our dedicated team delivers compassionate care that supports daily healing, resilience, and the continued strength of our communities. UAII is committed to uphold Indigenous values in all aspects of our work. It guides our actions, relationships, and responsibilities, ensuring that we serve our communities with integrity, respect, and accountability.

Core Principles

• Respect for Relatives – I will honor the dignity of all people, recognizing that every individual is a relative deserving of respect, compassion, and care.
• Community Responsibility – My work is not only for individual benefit but for the collective well-being of our communities, present and future.
• Cultural Integrity - I will safeguard and uplift Indigenous languages, traditions, and cultural practices, ensuring they remain central to our organizational life.
• Reciprocity - We give back in balance with what we receive, fostering mutual trust and accountability in all relationships.
• Stewardship – I will act as a caretaker of our communities, resources, and environment, mindful of the impact of our decisions on future generations.
• Truth and Transparency – I will communicate honestly and openly, ensuring clarity in our commitments and accountability in our actions

The Clinical Supervisor is a grant funded position.

Job Summary

The Behavioral Health Clinical Supervisor is responsible for providing clinical supervision to behavioral health staff and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, culturally responsive mental health services. The incumbent provides assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and counseling services to children, youth, adults, and families as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team. This position oversees clinical quality, compliance, and access to care while supporting staff development and adherence to applicable regulatory and ethical standards.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Clinical Supervision

• Review and approve assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, and discharge summaries.
• Monitor clinical quality, productivity, and adherence to evidence-based practices.
• Provide clinical consultation regarding high-risk cases, crisis situations, mandated reporting, and duty-to-warn obligations.
• Support professional development and competency growth of supervisees.

Compliance and Quality Assurance

• Ensure compliance with Medi-Cal, DMH, DHCS, BBS, HIPAA, and agency requirements.
• Participate in utilization review, chart audits, and quality improvement activities.
• Monitor documentation timeliness and clinical necessity standards.

Crisis and Risk Management

• Provide oversight of risk assessments involving suicide, homicide, abuse, neglect, and grave disability.
• Participate in clinical incident review processes and corrective action planning.

Additional Duties & Responsibilities 

· Supports the Healthcare Clinical Operations Director in the administration and coordination of behavioral health services and referral processes

· Participates in interdisciplinary treatment team meetings, case conferences, and program meetings.

· Oversees the processes of incoming referrals for behavioral health programs and works on referral assignments to ensure proper linkage to care.  

· Follows up with assigned clients and referral sources. 

· Oversees client assignment, triage, and access-to-care processes to ensure timely and appropriate service delivery.

· Provides clinical supervision to unlicensed clinical staff to ensure compliance with standards and regulations.  

· Maintain strict confidentiality of client and personnel information. 

· Provide care to clients in a manner which respects their basic human rights and guarantees a fair and equal process to resolve all denial of care conflict. 

· Conducts intake evaluations, biopsychosocial assessments, and diagnostic screenings for children, adolescents, and adults referred for services.

· Provides evidence-based individual, family, and group psychotherapy to children, youth, and adults experiencing behavioral health, emotional, substance use, and psychosocial challenges.

· Assesses family dynamics, environmental factors, and social determinants of health that may impact treatment outcomes and prepares related clinical documentation.

· Partner with the staff to obtain resources for the client to sustain the client’s involvement in center programs/treatment. 

· Provide group treatment, parent support groups, and/or parenting classes as needed. 

· Maintain aftercare follow-up and support/assistance to clients completing center programs/treatment. 

· Attend all staff meetings and departmental and agency events. 

· Keeps the Healthcare Clinical Operations Director informed of program activities, emerging issues, risks, and operational concerns.

· Adhere to agency policies and procedures and advances the goals of UAII in a manner that embodies the agency’s philosophy. 

· Ability to occasionally work evenings or weekends for Company events. 

· Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications (Education & Experience)

 · Current California licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), or Licensed Psychologist (PhD/PsyD). 

· Minimum five (5) years of post-licensure clinical experience working with children, adults, and families experiencing mental health, substance use, homelessness, poverty, trauma, and other complex psychosocial challenges. 

· Minimum two (2) years of clinical supervisory experience. 

· Minimum three (3) years of behavioral health program leadership or management experience preferred. 

· Knowledge of Medi-Cal, DHCS, HIPAA, California BBS regulations, documentation standards, and quality assurance requirements. 

· Experience providing trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and community-based behavioral health services.

· Possession of a current California clinical license is required.

Preferred Qualifications (Education & Experience)

· Experience working with Native American and Alaska Native communities preferred. 

· Strong clinical assessment, treatment planning, crisis intervention, and documentation skills. 

Necessary Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Competencies

· Knowledge of Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (PL93-638).

· Knowledge of Title V of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (PL 94-437).

· Knowledge of the Affordable Care Act (PL 111-148).

· Strong understanding and sensitivity to American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) cultures and lifestyles, and work effectively with AI/AN population.

· Effective oral and written communications skills with sensitivity to lifestyles of targeted participants, while maintaining a high level of professionalism.

· Skills in operating personal computer using a variety of computer software (Microsoft Office, Adobe, Microsoft Teams, Zoom).

· Ability to maintain strict confidentiality of client and personnel information, exercise discretion, and comply with all applicable federal and state privacy laws, as well as UAII policy (HIPAA, HITECH, etc.).

· Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with management, coworkers, and outside contacts.

· Ability to keep up with a fast-paced environment.

· Ability to anticipate issues and find solutions quickly and effectively.

· Ability to learn and apply program/agency operating policies and procedures.

· Ability to manage multiple priorities and tasks concurrently and meet deadlines.

· Ability to interact with various people on various, and at times, complex issues. 

· Ability to work independently as well as with teams.

Conditions of Hire

· Eligibility to work in the U.S.

· Fingerprint clearance and post-offer drug test.

· Proof of hepatitis B vaccination and TB screening.

· UAII strongly encourages COVID-19 and Influenza vaccinations; in the absence of the recommended vaccinations, employees are advised to wear a mask while in clinic areas.

Benefits

· Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

· Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans

· Company-paid Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

· Company-paid Basic Life Insurance and AD&D

· HSA, FSA

· 403(b) Retirement Plan with 4% Employer Match

· Employee Assistance Program

· Bereavement and Jury Duty Paid Leave

· Employee Wellness Program

· Paid Vacation - 12 days (first 2 years)

Working Conditions

The work environment characteristics described here represent those employee encounters while performing the primary functions of this job. Normal office conditions exist, and the noise level in the work environment can vary from low to moderate.

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 use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and/or sit. The employee is occasionally required to walk, sit and climb or balance. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.

United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected status under federal, state, or local law. UAII is a drug-free workplace and complies with ADA regulations. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

UAII is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, in accordance with applicable law.