Aspiranet is a one-of-a-kind social service agency dedicated to building a world where all children and youth are loved and cared for, and all families have the resources to thrive. Founded in 1975, our core mission is to help California kids and families. Aspiranet’s services include foster care and adoption family support, residential care, support for youth making the transition from foster care to adulthood, mental and behavioral health services, intensive home-based care, and community-based family resources. We provide services throughout California.
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Clinical Program Manager - Residential Services - 14444
Turlock, CA, USA
Clinical Program Manager, Residential Services
Location: On-Site – Turlock, CA
Schedule: Full-Time | Exempt | Shift: Monday - Friday
Department: Residential Division – STRTP Program
Reports to: Program Director
Pay Range: $105,000.00 – $115,000.00 annually (DOE)
Are you passionate about developing others, leading with purpose, and making a meaningful difference? Join Aspiranet, a trusted nonprofit founded in 1975, with locations across California, dedicated to ensuring all children and youth are loved, supported, and given the resources they need to thrive.
✨ Make a Meaningful Impact
Aspiranet, a leading California-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting children, youth, and families, is seeking a compassionate and committed Clinical Lead Program Manager to join our Residential division. In this division, you’ll help create safe, structured environments where youth can heal, grow, and thrive. Our programs provide therapeutic care tailored to each individual’s needs, focusing on emotional well-being, life skills development, and relationship building. If you’re driven to support youth on their path toward stability and empowerment, we’d be delighted to have you on our team.
📝️ Position Summary
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Small, intentionally designed program serving up to 19 youth, allowing for meaningful clinical oversight and impact
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Rural setting that fosters strong relationships, collaboration, and consistency of care
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Opportunity to focus on clinical quality, staff development, and program integrity
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Be part of an organization with a long-standing reputation for innovation, collaboration, and commitment to child welfare
🔍 Program Manager – Job Duties
- Provide clinical and operational leadership for a Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP), ensuring high-quality clinical services that align with Agency policies, safety standards, regulatory requirements, The Joint Commission, the Professional Code of Ethics, and approved budgetary parameters.
- Champion trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and evidence-based practices across the program, providing hands-on clinical guidance to ensure fidelity to approved treatment models while supporting staff growth from entry-level to advanced practice.
- Serve as a clinical resource and thought partner to multidisciplinary staff, offering consultation, coaching, and skill-building support to strengthen assessment, treatment planning, intervention delivery, and crisis response.
- Lead quality assurance and continuous improvement initiatives, including review of clinical documentation, outcome data, and program indicators, using findings to inform training, supervision, and enhancements to clinical practice.
- Recruit, hire, onboard, and develop program staff, with a strong emphasis on building trauma-informed competencies, reflective practice, ethical decision-making, and confidence in working with youth with complex needs.
- Provide regular, structured individual and group supervision, integrating clinical oversight, professional development, feedback, and support to promote staff effectiveness, retention, and high-quality service delivery.
- Educate and support staff in meeting Agency, regulatory, and funder requirements, ensuring understanding and adherence to confidentiality standards, professional boundaries, documentation expectations, and clinical model fidelity.
- Oversee coordination and delivery of program services, ensuring clinical, case management, and service documentation is timely, accurate, strengths-based, and reflective of trauma-informed practice.
- Build and maintain collaborative relationships with youth, families, community partners, funders, and oversight entities, serving as a knowledgeable and approachable clinical representative of the Agency.
Ensure effective management of incidents, grievances, and critical concerns, guiding staff through documentation, follow-up, learning opportunities, and corrective actions that prioritize safety, accountability, and system improvement.
✅ Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a related field and a minimum of one year prior management experience. Active licensure with the BBS as an LMFT, LCSW or Licensed Psychologist is preferred, or if licensure is near completion, demonstration of met requirements.
- A minimum of four years’ experience clinical experience working with youth with complex trauma, significant behavioral challenges and preferable with youth in foster care or group home.
- Meets all state required conditions of employment as set forth by funder and Community Care Licensing for a Licensed Community Care facility; i.e. Fingerprint and Child Abuse Index clearance, TB/Health Physical. Valid CDL and clean driving record.
- Meets all compliance requirements of federal, state, and county regulations by periodic sanction checks.
❤️ Why Aspiranet?
- Growth potential.
- 14 paid holidays (including birthday and diversity holidays).
- 10 vacation days + 10 sick days annually.
- 100% employer-paid medical and dental plans.
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer match.
- Life, AD&D, and disability insurance.
- Wellness, commuter, and mileage reimbursement benefits.
- Employee Assistance Program (24/7 support + counseling).
- Professional development, training, and advancement opportunities.
- Supportive, inclusive, and mission-aligned culture.
- Operate at a leadership level where you impact multiple cottages and teams.
- Be a key player in building consistency, structure, and excellence across programs.
- Work in a beautiful country environment with new facilities and innovative resources.
🏋️ 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
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