Clinical Team Leader

In our innovative, mindfulness-based mental health program, Team Leaders work closely with colleagues to support adults who are recovering from psychiatric distress while they are living in an apartment in the Northampton community. This position offers an opportunity to engage in longer-term therapeutic work that privileges depth of connection. It requires a Master’s degree in mental health and an active contemplative practice. 30-40 hours/week, competitive pay with benefits.

Responsibilities include:

• Spending individual time with clients often in 3-hour shifts, twice a week
• Supporting 2-3 teams (including facilitating weekly team meetings)
• Communicating with family members and participating in dialogical family work
  • Engaging in ongoing Windhorse training that includes Open Dialogue, Contemplative Psychology, and Polyvagal Theory
  • Participating in individual weekly supervision & several group supervisions
• Attending a weekly group contemplative practice to cultivate mindfulness and compassion
  • Collaborating with colleagues and clients to create healthy choices in recoverySkills that are helpful:

curiosity, experience with people in extreme mind-states, contemplative practice, compassion, team collaboration, self-reflection, empathy, team facilitation and support, social systems awareness, precision, timely reporting (minimal).

Pay range & entry requirements:
• Salary commensurate with experience, with benefits
• Masters degree in social work, mental health counseling, or equivalent
• License, or in process
• Preferred: contemplative practice

Please send cover letter and resume to [email protected]

Windhorse Integrative Mental Health is seeking housemates. A housemate lives with a person experiencing significant emotional distress (i.e. depression, schizophrenia, trauma, etc.) and needing a high level of support and interaction in their recovery process. Windhorse uses a mindfulness-based philosophy in working with these individuals. Each household is fully supported by a clinical team. This is an excellent opportunity for a well-grounded person interested in supporting those seeking recovery and well-being. It is an opportunity for self-growth and work within the human services. Specific experience in this field is not required. Being engaged in a personal contemplative discipline (i.e. meditation, yoga, etc.) would be supportive to this job.

Benefits include a weekly stipend, rent and utilities are paid for, a monthly food allowance, the freedom to work up to 25 hours per week at another job, ongoing individual and group training and supervision.

We ask a minimum of a six month commitment. Please send a cover letter and resume to [email protected]

We work with a local college of social work in offering one internship position per school year. We currently don’t have the resources to offer more supervision or work with multiple schools. How we work here is intensive, team-oriented, and takes specific training to our approach. It is not easily translated into the current academic language for the mental health field. It is in our long range plan to have more accessibility, both for clients and students wanting to experience our approach. To learn more, please email [email protected]windhorseimh.org

Clinical Team Leader 

Inspiring and unique clinical opportunity in the field of mindfulness and relationship based psychiatric recovery.  Windhorse Integrative Mental Health, a non-profit founded in 1993, is seeking a full-time Clinical Team Leader for our San Luis Obispo, California location. Windhorse is a semi-residential therapeutic community that uses a mindfulness and relationship-based philosophy in working with individuals experiencing health challenges such as psychosis, mood disorders and trauma.

Our multidisciplinary clinical teams, including our unique therapeutic housemate role, work together to offer an intensive level of individualized one-on-one client support, up to 40+ hours per week for full clinical teams. The clinical team leader role is a multi-faceted one, where they act as the team facilitator and lead, provide support to the team and family, as well as work directly with clients supporting healing in client homes and out and about in the community.  Full-time caseload consists of only a few clients per clinician, allowing for extensive depth of healing and connection, as well as a balanced practice for clinicians.

If you have previously felt restrained by the traditional mental health service environment, have experience with community integrated treatment, and feel moved by the therapeutic community model and our unique Windhorse approach, we highly encourage you to apply!

Ideal Candidate:

–       Strong clinical, case management, and leadership skills

–       Warm and compassionate

–       Thrives in a collaborative team environment; values therapeutic community

–       Capacity for humor, playfulness, and lightheartedness

–       Open to learning non-traditional therapeutic approaches

–       Humble and curious—remains mindful while engaging in self-reflective practices

–       Holds an affinity toward relationship-based healing

–       Tends to be more flexible and versatile than highly anxious and rigid

–       Well-resourced in self-care and strives to be personally grounded

–     Values mutual learning and recovery

Please review our website (www.windhorseimh.org) to learn more about our philosophy and ensure alignment with the Windhorse approach.

Job Requirements:

–       Licensed for clinical practice at the Master level (LCSW, LPC, LMFT) (may consider candidates who are approaching licensure)

–       Ongoing personal mindfulness/contemplative practice

–       Extensive experience and/or interest with adult psychosis, mood disorder and trauma (preferably in a community setting)

–       Experience in conducting direct psychotherapy and case management

–       Skilled in acute crisis management

–      Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team environment

–     Willing to abide by organization COVID protocols

Salary is based on experience and includes generous benefits such as medical, dental, IRA retirement, life/disability insurance, holiday, vacation, and sick paid time off.

If you would like to apply for this position, please email a resume and cover letter to: [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you!

Windhorse Integrative Mental Health is seeking housemates. A housemate lives with a person experiencing significant emotional distress (i.e. depression, schizophrenia, trauma, etc.) and needing a high level of support and interaction in their recovery process. Windhorse uses a mindfulness-based philosophy in working with these individuals. Each household is fully supported by a clinical team. This is an excellent opportunity for a well-grounded person interested in supporting those seeking recovery and well-being. It is an opportunity for self-growth and work within the human services. Specific experience in this field is not required. Being engaged in a personal contemplative discipline (i.e. meditation, yoga, etc.) would be supportive to this job.

Benefits include a weekly stipend, rent and utilities are paid for, a monthly food allowance, the freedom to work up to 25 hours per week at another job, ongoing individual and group training and supervision.

We ask a minimum of a six month commitment. Please send a cover letter and resume to [email protected]

Windhorse Integrative Mental Health is seeking housemates. A housemate lives with a person experiencing significant emotional distress (i.e. depression, schizophrenia, trauma, etc.) and needing a high level of support and interaction in their recovery process. Windhorse uses a mindfulness-based philosophy in working with these individuals. Each household is fully supported by a clinical team. This is an excellent opportunity for a well-grounded person interested in supporting those seeking recovery and well-being. It is an opportunity for self-growth and work within the human services. Specific experience in this field is not required. Being engaged in a personal contemplative discipline (i.e. meditation, yoga, etc.) would be supportive to this job.

Benefits include a weekly stipend, rent and utilities are paid for, a monthly food allowance, the freedom to work up to 25 hours per week at another job, ongoing individual and group training and supervision.

We ask a minimum of a six month commitment. Please send a cover letter and resume to [email protected]