Are you a
Change Maker?
We are too
Are you
- Passionate about helping others
- Motivated to succeed
- On a mission to make a difference in other’s lives
- Happiest when working as a team
- Ready to take your career to the next level
Then Karla Smith Behavioral Health is the Place for You!
As a Part of our team, you can change the lives of your patients every day while changing your own life! By providing exceptional care and personalized patient therapy, you will provide a better quality of life to your patients by meeting their mental health needs and guiding them through their life journey.
What You’ll Do.
- Provide industry-leading specialized therapy experience
- Implement innovative therapeutic strategies in individual, group and family settings
- Conduct comprehensive evaluations to identify opportunities to help patients
- Make life changing therapy plans to suit a patient’s personal needs
- Deliver superior follow-up care to ensure patient success
What You’ll Get.
- Supportive personal management coach and team
- Ability to implement your own patient care approach without the administrative hassles
- Clear path and goals to reach
- Flexibility and opportunity to grow to meet the needs of your life
- Personal recognition and satisfaction of achievement
Join Our Therapy Team
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? We’re looking for compassionate, experienced, driven therapists to join our team of passionate change makers.
Clinical Director
Lead clinical operations as we enter our next phase of growth and service expansion.
Mental Health Therapist
Help your patients overcome their hardships and improve their lives.
Do you
Rebuild Lives?
We Do Too
Earn $55-65,000 annually!
Licensure:
Must be Licensed in Illinois as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Social Worker (LSW), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), or Clinical Psychologist.
Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree Required. More advanced degrees such as LCSW, LCPC PhD welcomed.
- 2+ years of clinical experience preferred
- Exceptional patient service skills.
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills.
- Committed to professionalism, integrity, and honesty.
- High energy and motivation to succeed.
- Complete and document clinical assessments and write treatment plans for older adults, adults and adolescents.
- Facilitate Individual, family and group therapy
- Facilitate Intensive Outpatient group, family, and individual therapy
- Participate in curriculum development
- Complete required clinical documentation with timeliness, efficiency and accuracy
- Manage a mixed caseload which will include adults, parents/guardians of clients, adolescents and families experiencing or supporting a person with mental health concerns, trauma, communication challenges and family conflict.
- Familiarity with services and resources in the community preferred.
- Be willing to learn new therapeutic modalities
Position overview
Karla Smith Behavioral Health is seeking an experienced and highly collaborative Clinical Director. This position will lead clinical operations within an established behavioral health organization that is entering its next phase of growth and service expansion.
In existence for twenty-one years, Karla Smith Behavioral Health is an established organization with solid infrastructure, experienced staff, referral base, operational processes, and existing programming in place. The Clinical Director will be responsible for helping operationalize the strategic direction of the organization’s “farm based” facility by evaluating opportunities to improve service delivery, strengthen programming, and implement innovative treatment approaches that better support clients and families.
The organization’s new location offers an easily accessible, nature-based, farm-like setting intentionally designed to support healing, emotional regulation, connection, and experiential therapeutic opportunities. The Clinical Director will help evaluate and integrate ways the environment itself can enhance programming, client engagement, and family experience while maintaining strong clinical and operational standards.
This organization serves adolescents through older adults, with a strong concentration on adolescents, young adults, and family systems work. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working with these populations and demonstrated leadership experience in behavioral health settings.
The Clinical Director will work closely with the Executive Director on a daily basis and must be highly collaborative, team-oriented, community-minded, and execution-focused. This role requires a leader who can move initiatives from concept to implementation while maintaining strong clinical standards, operational consistency, and staff accountability.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and oversight for clinical programming and daily clinical operations
- Partner closely with the Executive Director to implement organizational priorities and operational goals
- Evaluate opportunities to improve client care, programming effectiveness, workflow, and family engagement within the organization’s new treatment environment
- Develop and implement new clinical programming and treatment models as needed
- Integrate experiential and environment-based therapeutic opportunities into programming where clinically appropriate
- Provide direct supervision, mentorship, and support to clinical staff
- Support the professional development of newer clinicians working toward advanced licensure and increased clinical competency
- Lead case consultation, treatment planning oversight, and clinical quality assurance processes
- Maintain compliance with licensing, ethical, accreditation, and regulatory standards
- Assist with hiring, onboarding, training, and retention of clinical staff
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and team-oriented clinical culture
- Monitor program effectiveness and support measurable clinical outcomes
- Represent the organization professionally within the community and referral network
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will:
- Be highly organized, operationally strong, and execution oriented
- Work effectively in close partnership with executive leadership
- Have strong supervisory and leadership skills
- Be able to mentor and develop less experienced clinicians into higher levels of licensure and clinical competency
- Have extensive experience with adolescents, young adults, and families
- Be collaborative, professional, and team-focused
- Be comfortable balancing strategic planning with day-to-day operational oversight
- Demonstrate sound clinical judgment and strong communication skills
- Value innovative and experiential approaches that complement evidence-based treatment
Qualifications
- Master’s or Doctoral degree in Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, Marriage & Family Therapy, or related behavioral health field
- Independent clinical licensure required (LCSW, LCPC, Clinical Psychologist or equivalent)
- Minimum of 5 years of experience post-clinical licensure required
- Direct clinical supervision experience required
- Significant experience working with adolescents, young adults, and family systems
- Experience in behavioral health leadership, program development, and clinical operations
- Strong understanding of trauma-informed and evidence-based treatment practices
Application Requirements
Interested candidates should submit the following:
- Resume/CV
- Cover letter outlining leadership and supervisory experience and including a brief narrative describing:
- A program you built, improved, or implemented, or
- A clinical initiative you led, including measurable outcomes and operational impact