Job Openings
TCP is hiring a new Clinical Director (CD) to lead its clinical team. We are a diverse group with varied experiences in our racial identities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and other intersections. Our therapists have a range of clinical experience, skill sets, and theoretical orientations including psychodynamic, family systems, and gestalt therapy, relational-cultural theory, EMDR, and mindfulness. TCP strives to be trans-affirming and anti-racist in its culture and programming.
This is a salaried, part-time position for 12 hours a week. As a nonprofit organization that primarily serves people who are financially anxious, we are limited to offering a salary of $35 per hour, equivalent to $21,840 + paid vacation days. This salary rate allows TCP to continue to offer a sliding scale to our clients that, on the most accessible end, sets a therapy session rate less than ⅕ the market value. This is a remote position with the opportunity to work in-office.
Opportunities to carry a small caseload of clients can be considered too.
Clinicial Ethos:
The CD position is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned clinician with special interest and experience in training, supervision of the clinical process, gender and racial equity, and the self-of-the-therapist work. We are looking for a CD who embodies the following qualities, in order to guide TCP staff in our collective mission:
- Deeply invested and personally aligned with anti-racism and trans-affirming work, which may be demonstrated by one or more of the following:
- Experience that reflects engagement social justice work focused on race and gender liberation
- Leading anti-racist and/or trans-affirming trainings
- Community organizing
- Teaching around race and gender-related issues
- Writing or publishing related to race and racism, gender and cissexism, and other aspects of social justice
- Understanding of social locations (race, gender, sexuality, etc) and intersectionality as a way of empowering supervisees and staff
- Knowledge of feminist, relational, liberation-focused, social justice, and systemic theories. Understands how to utilize these theories in their work and holds the same standard for supervisees and staff
- Ability to contribute to ongoing systems change at TCP that bring the agency closer to being socially just
- Ability to embrace and further our commitment to retaining and expanding our community of clinicians and clients of color in all of their intersecting identities
- Experience with both individual and group supervision
Qualifications:
- Maintenance of an active PA license in any of the following disciplines: psychology, clinical social work, marriage and family therapy, or professional counseling
- 3-5 years of prior clinical supervisory experience with seasoned clinicians and trainees
- Leadership and facilitation experience
- Experience using an electronic health records system (TheraNest preferred)
- Strong computer skills in the Google Suite including Gmail, sheets, docs, etc.
The CD manages all clinical operations including the intake department, case assignment, therapy services (individual, couples/relationship, and group), training programs, individual clinical supervision, and group supervision. The CD also leads the process of interviewing and hiring all new clinical staff and trainees. The CD supervises and supports all clinical supervisors and the intake coordinator, particularly around sensitive clinical situations. They oversee and provide guidance around compliance with all ethical and legal requirements, including HIPAA regulations and PA Law on Reporting Child Abuse. The Executive Director relies heavily on the CD and works very closely with them.
Primary Responsibilities:
Duties for the role include but are not limited to the following:
- Overseeing of all intake processes and client assignments
- Tracking caseload sizes for both clinicians and supervisors
- Reviewing and disseminating all clinical policies to staff
- Creating new clinical policies as needed
- Serving as an ombudsperson for all HR concerns
- Providing final judgment calls for all clinical matters
- Presiding over hiring processes related to clinical and supervisory work
- Overseeing TCP’s internship program
- Supporting in the onboarding of all new staff
- Supporting in the PA licensure process for staff as needed
- Supporting in the collection and analysis of quarterly client surveys
- Facilitating connections between TCP and other clinical sites
- Meeting regularly with the Executive Director
- Facilitating at least one supervision group per month on a Friday
- Providing individual supervision for all supervisors and the intake coordinator on a monthly basis
- Facilitating the monthly supervisors’ meetings on the 3rd Friday of the month from 1:00 to 3:00 pm
- Attending monthly staff meetings on the 1st Friday of the month from 3:00 to 4:30 pm
If interested, please email your resume/CV and cover letter to Marquita Bolden, Executive Director, at mbolden@therapycenterofphila.org. No phone calls please.
TCP is hiring a new Clinical Supervisor to join its supervisory team. We are a diverse group with varied experiences in our racial identities, gender identities, and sexuality. Our clinicians come from diverse backgrounds and offer expertise in psychodynamic, family systems, and gestalt therapy approaches, relational-cultural theory, EMDR, and mindfulness. TCP strives to be trans-affirming and anti-racist in its culture and programming.
The Clinical Supervisor (CS) will clinically and administratively supervise TCP therapists (licensed, unlicensed, post-doc, and interns) based on their hours needed for their clinical licensure and according to their TCP contract. The number of supervisees will be determined based on the number of current staff. You are expected to offer 10-15 hours a month in the position. This includes having a presence with staff on Fridays (our administrative and meeting day), participation in monthly staff meetings, and supervisors meeting. The CS will have additional responsibilities including training, clinical policy making, and offering leadership and guidance around mission and growth of the agency.
Reimbursement is $35 per supervision session and $20 per hour of administrative work.
Primary Responsibilities:
The TCP supervisor will provide individual supervision to their assigned caseload of staff therapists and interns. Supervision should promote racial and gender equity, and support for new clinicians to the field by offering additional consultation as needed. Goals for supervision and learning styles should be established, and group supervision provided monthly. Ethical and professional standards should be modeled, and supervisees’ progress notes and caseloads monitored. Supervisor should provide consistent feedback to ensure continued clinical growth of their supervisees. The supervisor may facilitate group supervision as the organizational need arises.
Policy
In collaboration with the executive director, clinical director, and other supervisors, the CS offers their leadership and participates in the development and implementation of policies relevant to clinical issues and the mission and growth of the agency. They also monitor clinicians’ and trainees’ compliance with TCP policies and participate in the development and implementation of corrective measures in the case of supervisees’ non-compliance with TCP policies.
Training
In collaboration with the clinical director, the clinical supervisor assesses their trainees’ professional development needs, and participates in the development of training plans to meet these needs.
Accountability
All supervisors are supervised by the clinical director. Supervisors meet monthly with the supervisory team and individually with the clinical director, and with the executive director as needed.
Qualifications:
- PA Licensed Psychologist, LCSW, LPC, LMFT
- Five years of clinical experience, post-master’s degree
- Demonstrated competence around social justice in clinical practice, delivery of trans-affirming, racially just, and gender equitable therapy, issues of social location, person of the therapist, and intersectionality.
- Significant demonstrated knowledge of mental health and trauma-informed therapy in an outpatient setting with low-income women and transgender/gender non-conforming communities
- Excellent clinical judgment, ability to hold the complexity and clinical nuances around clinical work and at times dual role dynamics; ability to respond appropriately to staff around crisis intervention or ethical dilemmas
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with multi-tiered systems and to provide leadership and representation of clinical issues within the agency and in collaboration with the clinical director and executive director.
We welcome individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Transgender, gender-expansive, and non-binary supervisors; supervisors of color; EMDR-trained supervisors; and bilingual supervisors are especially encouraged to apply.
This role may be held completely remotely, but our office is open for in-person meetings. Opportunities to carry a small caseload of clients can be considered too.
We welcome individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Transgender, gender-expansive, and non-binary supervisors; supervisors of color; EMDR-trained supervisors; and bilingual supervisors are especially encouraged to apply.
If interested, please email your resume/CV and cover letter to Marquita Bolden, Executive Director, at mbolden@therapycenterofphila.org. No phone calls please.
Clinical Internships
Therapy Center of Philadelphia is currently not accepting new interns while we update our program to ensure it offers the most robust clinical training possible for students in their final year of Masters level education. Please check back for more information on our next round of intern positions.