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El Camino Health
Mountain View, California

Lic Mental Health Clinician I - 0.8 - Days - Behavioral Health-Partial Stay @ MV

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$62.56-$83.15/hr

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

Ask the employer about call expectations, weekend coverage, nights and shift pattern and time off.

Posted 59m ago · Verified live

Job Description

El Camino Health is committed to hiring, retaining and growing the best and brightest professionals who will carry our mission and vision forward. We are proud of our reputation in the community: One built on compassion, innovation, collaboration and delivering high-quality care. Come join the team that makes this happen.

Applicants MUST apply for position(s) by submitting a separate application for each individual job posting number they are interested in being considered for.

  • FTE
  • 0.8
  • Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours
  • 64

Work Shift

Day: 8 hours

Job Description

To provide high-quality acute mental health and/or chemical dependency services to patients and their family members. The goal of these services is to treat the presenting illness and return the patient to a previous or higher level of functioning within the community.

Qualifications

  • Master's or doctoral degree in one of the mental health professions.
  • Prefer two (2) years' licensed clinical experience with adolescents and their families, including experience in: assessment, referral, group, individual, couples, and family therapies and short-term treatment.
  • Experience with acute psychiatric care strongly preferred.
  • DBT experience preferred.
  • License/Certification/Registration Requirements
  • California license as LCSW, LMFT, LPCC or Psychologist

Salary Range

$62.56 - $83.15 USD Hour

The Physical Requirements and Working Conditions of this job are available. El Camino Health will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with a disability if that will allow them to perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so creates an undue hardship for the hospital, or causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace which cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation.

Medium Work - Requires standing the majority of the shift with the ability to lift up to 35 lbs. frequently. Work involves sitting, kneeling, climbing and squatting. - (Physical Requirements-United States of America)

An Equal Opportunity Employer

El Camino Health seeks and values a diverse workforce. The organization is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of qualifications and competencies.

El Camino Health prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, ancestry, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, marital status, age, medical condition or any other status protected by law.

In addition to state and federal law, El Camino Health also follows all applicable fair and equitable employment policies from the County of Santa Clara.

Key Responsibilities

Provide high-quality acute mental health and chemical dependency services to patients and their families. The objective is to treat presenting illnesses and assist patients in returning to a higher level of functioning within the community.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Mental health assessmentGroup therapyIndividual therapyCouples therapyFamily therapyClinical documentationCrisis interventionTreatment planning

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 54% are remote, 26% have no call, 64% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$152k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $137k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks37 jobs · 35 employers

401k / retirement match
95%
CME allowance
43%
Sign-on bonus
32%
Loan repayment
16%
PSLF eligible
14%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 8,061 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • On-site

Living in Mountain View

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$2.08M
Typical market rent
$4,536/mo
Residents’ average commute
23 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
110.4
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.