Clinical Director
Santa Cruz, CA
 
📍 Location: Onsite – Santa Cruz, CA
📅 Schedule: Full-Time - Exempt
💼 Department: Crisis Stabilization Unit
📈 Reports to: Associate Core Division Director 
💰 Pay Range: $120,000 - $135,000/ Per Year

Sign On Bonus of $5,000- $10,000! 
 
✨ Make a Meaningful Impact 
Aspiranet, a leading California-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting children, youth, and families, is seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Clinical Director to lead our Crisis Stabilization Unit in Santa Cruz. If you are a licensed mental health professional with a passion for clinical excellence, staff development, and evidence-based care, this is your opportunity to make a profound impact. In this pivotal role, you’ll provide clinical supervision, guide program operations, and ensure the highest standards of behavioral health services for youth and families in crisis. Join a mission-driven team where your leadership will help shape brighter futures across our community.
 
❤️ About Aspiranet
Aspiranet is a mission-driven social services agency with a proud legacy of supporting California communities since 1975. We are committed to ensuring that every child is loved, every family is supported, and every individual has the tools to succeed. Our services span the state and are delivered through six dedicated divisions: Foster Care and Adoption, providing support for children and families throughout the foster and adoption journey; Transitional Aged Youth (TAY), offering programs that guide young adults as they transition from foster care to independent living; Residential, delivering therapeutic care in structured, supportive environments to help youth thrive; Intensive Home-Based Services, focused on meeting individualized needs within the home, school, and community; Behavioral Health, delivering short-term, intensive mental health services for youth at risk; and Family and Community, emphasizing early intervention and family-strengthening supports. At Aspiranet, every role contributes to something greater—helping to create a future where opportunity, hope, and healing are within everyone’s reach.
 
📝️ Position Summary
The Clinical Director is responsible for the leadership, oversight, and continuous improvement of behavioral health programs at the designated location. This role integrates clinical supervision, program operations, and quality assurance to ensure services are delivered in alignment with evidence-based practices, regulatory standards, and agency policies. 

🔍Key Responsibilities
•    Provide group clinical supervision to program staff
•    Provide individual clinical supervision to program staff
•    Provide training to program staff within clinical supervision
•    Communicate on a regular basis with program management about staff's performance.
•    Immediately notify management of high risk situations.
•    Provide input regarding staff's performance evaluations.
•    Provide clinical direction that is in alignment with agency practice standards.
•    Provide clinical supervision in compliance with the BBS.
•    Complete required written and/or verbal reports.
•    Develop and maintain positive working relationship with staff and program management.
•    Represent self and Agency in a professional manner.
•    Maintain appropriate professional boundaries with staff and program management.
•    Complete own administrative paperwork (time sheets, mileage, time off requests, phone bills & other expense reimbursements, weekly schedule, etc.) on time.
•    Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to cultural differences.
•    Perform additional duties as assigned.

✅ Qualifications 
•    California Licensed Marriage Family Therapist or Licensed Clinical Social Worker
•    Meets the BBS qualifications to provide clinical supervision
•    Ability to develop and provide training
•    Ability to supervise to evidence based practices utilized by the agency (must be trained in the EB practices)
•    Two years experience providing clinical supervision to staff in the field of family or child mental health or related field.

💻 Work Environment & Schedule 
•    On-site role in Santa Cruz, CA.

❤️ Why Aspiranet? 
•    Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits package, and a 403(b) retirement plan with employer matching. 
•    Access to the free Aspiranet Employee Perks Program. Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, wellness, pet care, gym memberships, theme parks, and more.
•    Flexible paid time off including 11 paid holidays, 10 vacation days, 10 sick leave days, two diversity days, and paid birthday time off.
•    Access to our employee assistance program including 24/7 crisis line; up to 6 counseling sessions per issue. 
•    Training opportunities are available to support your ongoing development and career aspirations. 
•    Collaborate in a supportive, inclusive, and mission-aligned culture. 
•    Opportunity to lead meaningful initiatives that support employee wellbeing.
 
🏋️ Physical Demands: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
This position typically operates in a standard office environment. The noise level is generally quiet and remains within OSHA’s established safety levels at all times.
 
⚖️ Equal Employment Opportunity
Aspiranet is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of diversity. We believe a diverse workforce within a culture of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) increases creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and teamwork for the youth and families that we serve and the organization as a whole.  Aspiranet strives to provide our employees with a workplace that is welcoming, inclusive of differing world views, cultures, and lived experiences.
 
📝️ How to Apply 
Join us in building brighter futures. 
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 👉 Click here to apply: www.aspiranet.org/careers
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