Postdoctoral Psychologist

WestCoast Children’s Clinic, located in Oakland, California, is a non-profit community psychology clinic that provides mental health services to Bay Area children, youth and families. Working at WestCoast Children’s Clinic means being part of an organization that is client-centered, trauma-informed, collaborative, and committed to justice and equity.

Staff Psychologist (Postdoc Level)
WestCoast Children’s Clinic is seeking skilled Mental Health Clinicians at the post-doc level who are collecting hours toward becoming a licensed psychologist in the state of CA. WCC clinicians provide mental health and case management services to youth and families.
Our Programs
We are hiring mental health clinicians/postdoctoral psychologists for the following programs:
TAYS (Transitional Age Youth) Programs
C-Change: Transforming the Lives of Sexually Exploited Minors
C-Change is an intensive mental health program that helps children heal from sexual exploitation. C-Change staff build relationships with exploited youth and stay with them through all stages of recovery.
Catch-21: Helping Youth Out
By focusing on the vulnerable period between leaving intensive mental health programs and returning to live in the community, Catch-21 helps youth ages 17-21 develop the skills they need to function successfully.
Outpatient Program
The Outpatient Therapy Program provides long-term individual and family psychotherapy, parent guidance, and clinical case management services and aims to help children develop adaptive coping mechanisms, positive relational skills, and to facilitate their healthy development.
STAT (Screening, Stabilization, and Transition) Program
The STAT program is committed to helping children cope with the trauma of abuse and neglect as well as minimizing the impact on children of being separated from their family and community.
As a Staff Psychologist, you will:

• Provide screening, assessment, and therapeutic services ; assess cognitive, emotional, and social functioning and needs; facilitate the identification and engagement in mental health services.
• Provide individual and family therapy, caregiver guidance, and work with collateral contacts. Work with a case manager as part of a care team to best serve youth.
• Provide intensive mental health, clinical case management, and wrap-around service development, including crisis intervention and stabilization.
• Conduct services at WCC and in the community (youth’s homes and communities, other agencies, and schools); travel is required.
• Collaborate with other professionals within WCC and partnering agencies.
• Engage with program leadership to foster a continuum of quality improvement and strength-building strategies for enhanced client services.
• Provide stabilization support services to children and TAY in an in-person milieu environment.
• On weekly shifts, provide stabilization and comprehensive care to Alameda County foster youth and young adults in a milieu environment as they await and prepare for transition to foster placements.

What will you gain?

• Receive individual clinical supervision by a dedicated supervisor to assist toward becoming a licensed psychologist
• Professional Development Stipend, which can be used for licensure materials
• Be part of a compassionate, driven team that is social justice-focused: We have several Staff Affinity Groups such as BIPOC Council, LGBTQ+, Equity and Inclusion, Health and Wellness
• Serve vulnerable kids and their families and create positive changes in their lives
• As a Joint Commission Accredited agency, we provide the highest standard of care and offer extensive clinical training and seminars led by field experts. Training includes CSEC, Telehealth, Complex Trauma/Trauma-Informed Care, Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS), Supervisor in Training program, and much more!

Minimum Requirements

• Doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology. Degree must be conferred prior to start date, interviews and contingent offers available prior to degree conferral.
• Based on our funding sources, California Department of Mental Health requires that we apply for a professional licensing waiver for all unlicensed psychologists. In order for us to obtain this waiver you need to have your degree conferred/degree requirements completed and be collecting hours towards licensure. Waivers expire 5 years after issuance.
• Demonstrate clinical skill in assessment/evaluation and treatment, crisis intervention while working with complex, multiple diagnosis histories
• Well-organized, efficient, and excellent time management
• A trauma-informed and relational approach to working with youth
• Ability to assess needs, strengths & provide crisis intervention and de-escalation in small and large group settings.
• Clean DMV record: travel is required

IMPORTANT DATES for POSTDOC CANDIDATES:
If you need to be notified of your application status prior to the 2023 common hold date, please submit your application by* January 16, 2023. *All other applications will be considered on a rolling basis.
POSITION START DATE: September-October 2023
Pay and Benefits
Salary range for Staff Psychologist as a Post Doctorate (Phd, Psyd) is $71,000-74,000 annually depending on experience and current licensure status, plus a 10% Spanish language differential, if applicable.
Benefits:

• 100% Employer-paid medical and a variety of different plans (base plan, Kaiser HMO), dental, vision, life insurance, and long-term disability coverage for full-time employees
• Competitive pay commensurate with experience
• Quarterly and annual incentive compensation plans, generous retirement plan contribution
• Bilingual pay differential for qualified candidates (5% of yearly salary)
• 403b retirement plan with ROTH and 403b contribution options
• Flex-spending options – Medical, Dependent Care and Commuter Plans
• 14 Paid Holidays, Self-Care Leave (additional PTO accrual with increased years of service)
• 20 days paid time off per year (equivalent to 4 weeks)
• Wellness Stipend ($100 per month), which can be used on a variety of expenses related to self-care and wellness

Join us and make a difference in the lives of vulnerable children and families in the Bay Area.
WCC is passionate about leading and encouraging open conversations around race, gender, power, and privilege and how these impact community mental health. Our staff affinity groups include Staff of Color Council, LGBTQ Staff Group, White Accountability Group, and Equity and Inclusion Council.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diminishing the influence of privilege and discrimination in our field and our workplace, whether due to differences concerning age, citizenship, color, disability, marital or parental status, race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $71,000.00 – $74,000.00 per year