Lead Integrated Emotional Wellness Clinician

Washington, DC | On-Site | $90K-$95K | Washington Post Top Workplace (8x Winner)     

Community of Hope is seeking a Lead Integrated Emotional Wellness Clinician to join our cohesive medical team to provide brief assessments, screenings, crisis intervention and short-term counseling services which will reduce barriers to mental health care and educating patients and staff about about mental health and treatment options.  This position is located at our Family Health & Birth Center in NE, Washington, DC 

Our Approach and Values

We celebrate people’s strengths and acknowledge the impact of trauma on people’s lives.   

We embrace diversity, welcome all voices, and treat everyone with respect and compassion. 

We lead and advocate for changes to make systems more equitable. 

We strive for excellence and value integrity in all that we do.

What You'll Do

• Leads the initiatives to increase capacity and expertise surrounding perinatal mental health needs and services, including program design and implementation, and data evaluation. 
• Supports and closely coordinates mental health care with the patient’s primary care team and when appropriate, coordinates with other treating mental health providers.  Screens and assesses patients for common mental health and substance use disorders. Consults with supervisor on difficult to engage clients. 
• Educates patients about common mental health and substance use issues and available treatment options. Helps identify and address related problems affecting health of client, such as housing, vocational rehabilitation, and social integration, and coordinates service delivery with other health center staff and community providers. 
• Provides crisis intervention per the clinician’s licensing and COH guidelines, to include addressing  suicidal/homicidal ideations. 
• Provides short-term, problem focused therapy for no more than 5 patients, unless approved by the supervisor and for up to 8 sessions per patient as deemed appropriate. Short-term therapy will focus on goal setting, change, and utilizing brief interventions. 
• Maintains a daily schedule of at least 6 patients seen per day.  Completes a treatment plan for all short-term therapy clients by the 2nd scheduled session. Monitors client  progress through the course of treatment, reevaluating and adapting the treatment plan at least monthly from  initial treatment plan date. 
• Collaborates with PCPs and psychiatric nurse practitioner’s to support patients who are not improving as  expected. This collaboration may include treatment plan changes including new medications or psychosocial  treatments, or appropriate referrals for additional services. 
• Facilitates and appropriately documents referrals for clinically indicated services outside the primary care clinic  (e.g., domestic violence safe shelter, mental health specialty care, core service agency, and substance use treatment).
• Provides leadership of emotional wellness integration with the midwifery and maternal and child health  teams, ensuring that activities align with COH policies, procedures, and strategic goals. 
• Meets with supervisees regularly and provides real-time feedback, training, support, and coaching as  needed. Creates meeting agendas, sends meeting agendas in advance when possible, and documents concerns promptly as needed.
• Performs other tasks as requested by supervisor. 

Must-Haves

• LICSW, LPC, or equivalent licensure required. (Any providers who are licensed in Maryland who provide a copy of their license and MD CDS to Talent Management are also eligible for MD licensure reimbursement.) 
• Minimum of two years of work experience in a clinical environment. 
• At least two years of supervisory experience.  
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills. 
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting. 
• Experience in screening for common mental health symptoms. 
• Experience with assessment and treatment planning for common mental health and/or substance use disorders required.
• Familiarity with brief, structured intervention techniques required.   
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and problem solve. 
• Ability to work with technology and electronic health records. 
• Ability to travel between Community of Hope sites.  
• Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends. 
• Proof of required vaccinations is required. This includes, but may not be limited to, Flu and Covid. COH will  consider requests for reasonable accommodations for anyone who cannot be vaccinated for a religious or  medical reason, subject to applicable law.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working within perinatal programs or populations. 
• Experience in screening for substance abuse disorders. 
• Experience working with underserved population.

Why You'll Love Working Here! 

At COH, we prioritize the following well-being and work-life balance-centered benefits:

• 8 x Washington Post 150 Top Workplaces winner.
• 8-hour workdays with paid lunch.
• 3 weeks vacation (additional week after two years), 2 weeks sick leave, + 11.5 paid holidays and one personal floating holiday on an annual basis.
• Annual performance-based raises, up to 5% of your annual pay.
• Tuition reimbursement & loan repayment (NHSC & DCHPLRP), Licensing reimbursement & CEU funding.
• Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance + 403(b) retirement.
• Leadership development, internal promotions and career growth opportunities.
• A culture grounded in equity, compassion, and well-being.

About Us

Community of Hope is a mission-driven, innovative, rapidly growing nonprofit, and Federally Qualified Health Center. For over 45 years, we have provided health and housing services, perinatal care coordination, and community support services to make Washington, DC more equitable. Community of Hope also strongly emphasizes maternal and child health, with midwifery practice and the only free-standing birth center in DC. We are honored to be one of DC’s largest providers of housing and homelessness prevention services for families and individuals throughout DC. Through our Family Success Center, our WIC nutrition centers, and our various partnerships, we have reached hundreds and believe that everyone in DC deserves to be healthy, housed, and hopeful. With the help of our amazing staff, we have successfully provided:

• 50,000+ medical visits
• 6,300+ dental visits
• 17,000+ emotional wellness visits
• 1,384 families and 220 individuals with housing/homelessness prevention services

Ready to bring hope and health to our DC community? Apply today! To request a reasonable accommodation to complete an employment application or for general questions about employment with Community of Hope, contact a Recruiting Coordinator. Email: [email protected] Phone: 202-407-7747. Community of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.