About Lydia Place
At Lydia Place, we believe that housing interventions today with prevention strategies for tomorrow is an investment in ending family homelessness in our community. Our vision is for a compassionate community where everyone has a home and the opportunity to thrive. We can achieve this through our mission to disrupt the cycle of homelessness and nurture healing and belonging for current and future generations.
Lydia Place is rooted in four main values that guide our strategic direction: Upstream Impact, Community, Equity, and Employee Wellness. We invite you to visit our website to learn more about our strategic plan and the impact of our work in the community.
Position Summary- Bilingual Mental Health Clinician (Spanish)
The Bilingual Mental Health Clinician is responsible for providing mobile, primarily in-home clinical mental health services to individuals currently or recently experiencing homelessness. This position will prioritize serving Spanish-speaking clients.
Salary & Benefits:
Level 9 - $32.73-$39.43/hour, 40 hours/week, non-exempt
Through longevity position tops out at $49.75
Paid time off for this position includes up to 4 weekly wellness hours, 19 days of PTO in the first year of employment (PTO includes sick time), and 13 paid holidays per year. Other benefits include agency sponsored medical/dental insurance (current premium covered at rate of 100% for the employee), a $50,000 Life Insurance policy, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), premium Calm meditation app subscription, and employer retirement plan contribution (current rate of up to 3% matching) after first year of employment. Lydia Place also provides a supportive, family-friendly work culture with flexible scheduling.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Deliver high quality, individualized, and tailored in-home, in office, and telehealth counseling to individuals and families in accordance with ethical standards and program contracts.
- Conduct diagnostic assessments to identify client strengths and needs
- Develop, implement, and update client treatment plans as appropriate
- Provide ongoing wellness, safety, and crisis planning for individual clients
- Provide responsive and strengths-based crisis management
- Strict adherence to HIPAA laws and practices
- Maintain confidentiality when working with client data and electronic protected health information (ePHI) in all circumstances, except those required by law
- Timely completion of therapy notes and all required file paperwork.
- Represent Lydia Place by serving on various internal and external committees/task forces
- Provide consultation, support, and training regarding mental health and substance use disorders to direct service staff as needed for both professional development and in response to individual client needs
- Participate in training and professional development as required by agency, program, and your individual license. Seek out additional support and training as needed in consultation with supervisor.
- Track outcomes and prepare reports upon request
- Other duties as assigned
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and depth perception. While performing these job duties, the employee is regularly required to listen to others and provide verbal feedback. The employee is required to sit for extended periods of time. Employees are frequently required to stand, walk, climb, or balance.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s degree and current DOH Licensure in Washington as an LMHC, LICSW, or LMFT and in good standing.
- 2 years of experience providing mental health counseling with individuals and families, including assessment and treatment, preferably in a community mental health setting
- Skilled in group facilitation and organization
- Comprehensive clinical understanding of adult and children’s mental health, differential diagnosis, and evidence-based treatment approaches.
- Experience working with a diverse groups of people
- Completion of background investigation that includes social security verification, professional reference checks, and a federal criminal background investigation
- Valid driver’s license, access to a vehicle and proof of insurance required
- Proficiency with word processing, Microsoft Office programs, and cloud-based internet software
- Proficiency in Spanish
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficiency in other languages reflected in the community we serve including but not limited to: Punjabi, Russian, or ASL
Core Competencies:
In addition to the position specific qualifications outlined above, all members of the Lydia Place team are expected to demonstrate proficiency in these core competencies:
- Anti-Oppressive Lens: Able to adopt anti-oppression, anti-racist, and trauma-informed framework to navigate complex systems of racism, poverty, homelessness, violence against women and children and other systems of oppression.
- Effective Communication: Able to read and interpret documents, write reports, correspond verbally and in writing with clarity, and must embody active listening skills. Able to ask for help when needed and offer help to others when appropriate as well as give and receive feedback. Support and explain reasoning for decisions.
- Initiative: Able to assess and identify actions to address issues independently while knowing when to ask for appropriate support.
- Organization: Able to effectively manage time and develop and carry out complex timelines and action plans. Able to follow policies and procedures.
- Integrity: Responsible, reliable, and accountable for actions in all settings. Open and honest about own strengths, limitations, and boundaries. Able to maintain confidentiality and commitments.
- Emotional Intelligence: Have an awareness of own emotions and be able to manage them while also being able to understand and respond appropriately to the emotions of others. Effectively manage disagreements. Able to manage frequent high stress situations.
- Open-mindedness: Adept at holding space for opposing ideas and embrace diversity in all areas of the workplace.
- Courage: Able to step outside of one’s personal comfort zone to address uncertainty, fear, discomfort, and inequities.
- Curiosity: Positive change and innovation require that we ask questions. The why’s, why nots, and what-ifs are crucial to this work and we encourage and expect employees to ask questions. Be curious about oneself, our workplace, the people and families we serve, and the larger community.
- Flexibility: Able to adapt and pivot as situations arise that are unexpected and/or challenging. Embrace needed change and manage well when faced with ambiguity.
- Creativity: Think outside the box, be resourceful, try new things, approach things differently and move beyond the status quo.
- Collaboration: Embrace a team approach with colleagues, community partners. Can work both individually and part of a team, when needed. Support organizational goals and values.
Email resume and detailed cover letter outlining your interest, qualifications, experience, or information that may not be encompassed in your resume, such as lived experience as it relates to this position, in an attached .doc or .pdf format. Direct materials to Employee Resource & Learning Manager, Amanda Blomquist, at [email protected]. You may also submit hard copy materials via PO BOX 28487 Bellingham, WA 98228. Position is open until filled.
Equal Opportunity Employment:
Lydia Place is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on the basis of race, sex/gender, religion/creed, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, national origin, genetic markers, military or veteran’s status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.