Community-Based Program Therapist (MFT, LCSW, LPCC)
Listed compensation
$36-$37/hr
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
Ask the employer about the work setting, weekend coverage, nights and shift pattern and time off.
Job Description
At TURN our mission is Improving Lives. Our organization embraces the tenets of client-centered care, and our core values People, Culture and Growth are at the forefront of everything we do. We hire exceptional individuals seeking meaningful opportunities in a purpose-driven environment.
Why Join TURN?
At TURN Behavioral Health Services, our mission is Improving Lives. We are committed to creating a workplace where employees feel supported, valued, and empowered to make a meaningful impact in the communities we serve. We offer a competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance. Benefits available to eligible employees include:
- Clinical Supervisor at No COST!
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance options through Anthem
- Health Savings Account (HSA) eligible medical plan options
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care and Dependent Care FSAs)
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employer-paid Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage
- Long-Term Disability coverage and voluntary Short-Term Disability options
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) available at no cost to employees
- Position may be eligible for HCAI loan repayment programs
- Voluntary supplemental benefits, including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity coverage
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Generous Paid Time Off and paid holidays
- Ongoing training, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
Join a team that is passionate about helping youth and families build healthier futures while growing your career in behavioral health and recovery services.
Job Summary
Recommend and assist with access to medical, educational, social, vocational, housing, and more to support program goals. Initiate referrals to the next level of care, and coordinate with physical health providers to ensure whole-person care, and advocate in the best interest of clients.
Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodation may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
- Provide assessments, mental health evaluations, family-individual-group therapy, plan development, case consultation, crisis intervention, discharge placement, and assist clients in meeting basic needs and symptom management.
- Complete accurate and timely documentation, meet minimum billable requirements for direct client services.
- Facilitate placement including pre-placement visits, and transportation as needed.
- Shift coverage including part of the on-call team.
- Provide field-based services as required by program and client need.
- Maintain confidentiality of client’s care.
- Participate in scheduled program meetings.
- Other relevant duties as assigned.
- Conduct MST assessment including review of referral information, identifying, and engaging key participants, identifying systemic strengths and weaknesses, and developing an analysis of the fit of problem behaviors within the ecological context.
- Engage primary caregiver and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement.
- Implement a problem conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention implementation, outcomes review and strategy revision procedure using the MST Analytic Process.
- Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment efforts that promote peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrate compliance with the nine MST Principles and the MST Analytic Process.
- Ability to engage and collaborate with all relevant systems and key participants within each system, to maintain alignment throughout MST treatment.
- Provide direct clinical treatment using methods compatible with MST principles and practices.
- Participate in all MST training, supervision, consultation, and MST Therapist development activities.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree and CA BBS registration or license (MFT, LCSW, LPCC) required.
- Valid CA driver’s license and current auto insurance per contract requirements required.
- Experience providing mental health and/or substance use disorder services preferred.
- Cultural competency understanding required.
- Bilingual preferred.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office and EHR software preferred.
Physical Requirements
These physical demands represent what must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. As mentioned above, reasonable accommodation may be made for qualified disabilities.
Seeing Hearing Speaking
Stooping/Bending Working in cramped spaces Moving around facility
Moving between offices/clients Driving – light errands Climbing
Lifting/carrying heavy items Driving – in the course of job duties Using hands/fingers
Pushing/pulling/dragging items Standing for long periods Sitting for long periods
Working outside/underground
I Can Perform the Above Functions
Without accommodation With accommodation. If so, please specify:
Other Duties
This job description isn’t a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities required for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
TURN is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran
status, national origin, race, religious creed, and sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Social Worker Career Context
In California, the Social Work weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$96k (934 salary observations; 1,754 listings), vs ~$81k nationally (6,623 salary observations; 20,649 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, 46% are remote, 28% 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 ~$76k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $69k 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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