Lead Wellness Clinician

Since 1984, Larkin Street Youth Services has helped more than 75,000 young adults in San Francisco with outreach, shelter, housing, education, employment, healthcare, and other services. Today, Larkin Street Youth Services is the largest provider of housing and services to homeless youth in the Bay Area. We serve 1,500 youth annually, operating or partnering to provide more than 500 emergency shelter, transitional, supportive, and subsidy-based housing beds at several unique sites across San Francisco. Working at Larkin Street, no matter what department, means making a real difference in the lives of young people experiencing homelessness. Our team is skilled, diverse, and passionate. Our culture encourages achievement and professional development, as well as teamwork and self-care. Our focus is always on the young people at the heart of our mission and to nurture potential, promote dignity and support bold steps by all. For more information about us, visit www.larkinstreetyouth.org.  The Wellness Department at Larkin Street offers a wide range of services to support young people across Larkin Street programs to achieve the healing they desire, including onsite drop-in counseling at program sites, check-ins, weekly individual therapy (in-person and virtual), and weekly psychoeducational groups (e.g. Healing Meditation, Crash Out, Boyz II Men, Alphabet Soup groups, etc.). With our typically serving over 85% BIPOC (including 45% Black) and over 30% LGBTQ+ TAY, the Wellness Department strives to provide a continuum of personalized culturally responsive services that empower young people towards achieving their identified mental health, harm reduction, and wellness goals, accessing resources to support their mental well-being, and decreasing the negative impacts of trauma and homelessness. The Wellness Department further provides consultation, trainings, and care coordination for all programs to deepen staff use of best practices across Larkin Street. WHAT YOU'LL DO: Under the guidance of the Division Director or Director of Client & Clinical Services, the Lead Wellness Clinician will provide mentoring and guidance to the Wellness Team, including providing clinical and/or administrative supervision to clinical interns, non-clinical staff and interns, and volunteers, and support with the overall day-to-day program operations of the Wellness Department. The Lead Wellness Clinician will provide comprehensive strengths-based and culturally responsive mental health services to unhoused and/or marginally housed transitional aged youth (TAY) ages 18-24, utilizing dynamic best practices for Trauma-Informed Care, Harm Reduction, Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (CPI), and Restorative Practices. The Lead Wellness Clinician will also join in providing clinical consultation, training, and professional development to program staff across Larkin Street, leading collaborative team conferences, and providing consultation at cross-department...