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Liberty Healthcare
Rancho Cucamonga, California

LCSW or LMFT – forensic mental health

Social WorkerNo weekendsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$85k-$95k

The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday

Ask the employer about call expectations and nights and shift pattern.

Posted 7mo ago

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

Treatment DocumentationConsultation

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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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 6.7
Better work-life than 80% of Social Work listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,459 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • On-site

Living in Rancho Cucamonga

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$705k≈ 8.3× annual pay
Typical market rent
$2,802/mo≈ 40% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
32 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
106.4
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 · Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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Benefits & Perks

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
30 days paid time off
Health Savings Account
401k plan