LCSW or LMFT – forensic mental health
Listed compensation
$85k-$95k
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
Licensed Clinical Social Workers and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists are encouraged to consider an outstanding career opportunity with Liberty Healthcare.
Liberty Healthcare is now accepting applications for a full-time Clinician position with our organization’s forensic mental health program in San Bernardino County.
This program exclusively serves adult inmates who are justice involved and actively experiencing mental illness. Services are provided onsite at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
Program objectives include facilitating early access to mental health assessment and treatment as well as providing effective competency training and restoration services.
As a Clinician with Liberty, you enjoy an array of responsibilities, including:
- Providing mental health services to program clients one-to-one and in-person
- Performing psychosocial evaluations
- Providing cognitive-behavioral treatment, psychoeducation and crisis intervention
- Documenting treatment and client progress
- Participating in clinical team meetings
- Taking a leadership role in individual treatment team planning
- Consulting and collaborating with clinical, ancillary and security staff
- Helping to ensure program clients receive high quality mental health services
As a full-time employee of Liberty Healthcare in this role, you can expect:
- Starting salary between $85,000 and $95,000 (depending on qualifications)
- Health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance
- 30 days of paid time off each year for holidays, vacation, sick leave, and personal days
- Health Savings Account, 401k plan, and other perks
Full details on Liberty's benefits plan are available at libertyhealthcare.com
The work schedule for this position is Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm and requires you to work onsite in-person at the West Valley Detention Center.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities include providing one-to-one in-person mental health services, performing psychosocial evaluations, and delivering cognitive-behavioral treatment, psychoeducation, and crisis intervention to adult inmates.
Requirements
Applicants must be a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) to serve justice-involved adults with mental illness in a forensic mental health program. Duties involve clinical work, documentation, team participation, and collaboration with various staff members.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates LCSW or LMFT – forensic mental health at Liberty Healthcare a 6.7 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Social Work — ranked against 6,459 active Social Work listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
Social Worker Career Context
Liberty Healthcare holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 80/100, 85 active listings.
In California, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$96k (944 salary observations; 1,766 listings), vs ~$81k nationally (6,661 salary observations; 20,737 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 42% are remote, 34% have no call, 62% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$90k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $81k 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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