Careers at Wellnest
At Wellnest, we believe in the power of connection. Our employees connect families and young adults with the support services, resources and housing that empowers them to create their brightest futures. For 100 years, we have been providing holistic emotional health and wellness services within the community. Today, we touch 200,000 lives annually, offering essential services to help our clients thrive.
If you have a bachelor’s or master’s degree, and this sounds like a meaningful job opportunity, we want to hear from you!
Wellness Benefits
At Wellnest, our employees are encouraged to practice self-care and are offered benefits to help support their individual needs, including but not limited to:
- An accrual of up to ten days of Paid Time Off (PTO) in their first year, a total of twelve paid holidays, up to five paid days off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, three paid days off for external training, and one Wellnest Day (paid floating holiday).
- Wellnest offers $10,000 annually to cover the cost of a personalized benefits package built from available medical, dental, and vision plans; an employer-paid life insurance policy valued at $50,000; and access to supplemental coverage plans and benefits, like a Flexible Spending Account for dependent care and medical expenses, accident and critical illness insurance, disability coverage, and other benefits.
- Wellnest employees benefit from an employer-sponsored 401(k) company match of up to 4% and profit-sharing contribution benefit of up to 5% to invest towards their future.
- Relocation expense reimbursement of up to $3,600 for select positions.
Training
Every staff at Wellnest, regardless of position or tenure, has access to various professional development opportunities to enhance their skills. Our internal program, Training Corners, offers live training, recorded webinars, and support materials tailored to meet the professional development needs of our clinicians and support staff so that they can better serve our communities. Many of the clinical training opportunities offered as part of this internal program are eligible for Continuing Education Credits (CEU) for our mental health providers, which are offered free of cost to our staff. In addition, as a company-sponsored benefit, every employee is offered up to three paid days off to participate in external training to augment their learning.
Diversity Equity & Inclusion
At Wellnest, we are committed to being intentional about creating programs, systems, and opportunities that value the unique contributions of our staff. Together with our staff, we are diligently working on developing a clear structure that defines and guides how we will embed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion principles into our organizational culture and clinical practices.
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Career Opportunities
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Advancement Associate
Annualized Salary Range: $60,000 to $70,000
The Advancement Associate is integral to raising funds for Wellnest and growing its base of supporters.
This position is responsible for driving specific fundraising outcomes, departmental administration, database management, external affairs activities including special events, and community engagement. The Advancement Associate is responsible for the development, implementation and management of volunteer programs, in-kind donations, and additional advancement activities as needed.
Assistant Director - Intensive Services
Annualized Salary Range: $95,024 to $106,770
The Assistant Director for Intensive Services will provide overall management and direction to one or more social service or mental health programs of the organization, including but not limited to: management of treatment team; development and control of program budgets; ensuring program activities comply with contracts; development and implementation of policies and procedures; coordinating or integrating the program within the organization; representing and furthering the program and the organization to the community by attending community and other events including on weekends and regularly scheduled holidays; provide supervision to supervisors/managers in the respective programs.
Case Manager - Outpatient Services
Annualized Salary Range: $47,098 to $52,919
Case Managers provide an array of services and activities in support of the program’s goal of promoting children’s emotional well-being. The Case Manager conducts groups for children, high-risk teens and adult parents of young children. These groups focus on building healthy relationships and promoting positive parenting. The Case Manager promotes a strengths based approach to service that empowers families, supports a community based philosophy of service, and ensures that all services and community events case managers attend while representing Wellnest are aligned with our mission, vision, and core values.
Classroom Assistant
Annualized Salary Range: Nonprofit – Social Services
As part of the Adult Work Experience program at Wellnest, the Classroom Assistant will support Day Treatment Intervention staff in prepping for classroom activities, meals and outreach events. In this position, the Classroom Assistant will also support with office organization, light clerical duties, maintaining cleanliness of common areas, and effectively serve in cordial communication with all staff and community members at all times. The successful candidate will be motivated and eager to learn Wellnest policies and procedures.
Clinical Therapist - Access and Wellness
Annualized Salary Range: $67,704 to $83,410
The Clinical Therapist promotes a strengths-based approach to treatment that empowers families, supports a community based philosophy of service, and ensures that all clinical services are aligned with Wellnest’s mission, vision, and core values. Performs a wide variety of professional, doctoral/master level clinical services for children and families in a community based mental health setting. Assists clients and their families in understanding and finding solutions to complex problems that lead to and/or result from mental illness and severe emotional health needs. Within company guidelines and professional standards, individuals in this position function independently.
Services are delivered at Wellnest’s existing walk-in clinic that operates every Monday through Friday, but may at times be delivered in client homes, schools, and other community settings. In this position. Therapists are required to be available for at least one evening shift per week. This position requires excellent computer skills and timely completion of clinical documentation in an electronic health record system using collaborative documentation.
Clinical Therapist - Housing
Annualized Salary Range: $67,704 $83,410
Housing Integrated Services (HSI) is a specialized program that provides comprehensive and intensive field-based community mental health services designed to meet the unique needs of youth, ages 18-25, in Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) who are formerly homeless and have a Severe Mental Illness (SMI) or Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED). HSI services are provided as part of an integrated model in which the Los Angeles County (LAC or County) Department of Mental Health (Department or DMH), Department of Health Services (DHS), and Department of Public Health (DPH) partner to respectively provide mental health services, intensive case management services (ICMS), and substance use services, as appropriate, to Clients who are in or have been matched to permanent supported housing.
Wellnest serves Transition Age Youth (TAY) at our five story100%permanent supportive housing development. As a team member, therapists handle cases as assigned, performs interviews and collects information from clients, identifies symptoms, makes diagnoses and develops a therapeutic or treatment plan. Therapists conduct individual therapy sessions, run therapy groups for TAY & TAY families, plan and administer therapeutic treatment in a field-based setting at the Nest on Florence or elsewhere. Therapists consult with the clinical supervisor, medical doctor, Wellnest peers or other specialists and timely complete required progress notes and paperwork. Therapists must meet or exceeds productivity and timely expectations. Other duties may be assigned in this program that includes providing emergency services 24 hours a day, seven days per week.
Clinical Therapist - Intensive Services
Annualized Salary Range: $67,704 to $83,410
As a team member, handles cases as assigned, or performs intakes, for which the therapist interviews and collects information from clients, identifies symptoms, makes diagnoses and develops a therapeutic or treatment plan, runs therapy groups for children & families, plans and administers therapeutic treatment within accepted professional guidelines, makes home visits and counsels clients with accepted methods to assist client. Also consults with clinical supervisor, medical doctor, Wellnest peers or other specialists and timely completes required progress notes and paperwork. Meets or exceeds productivity and timely expectations. Other duties may be assigned in this program that provides services 24 hours a day, seven days per week.
Clinical Therapist - ISM
Annualized Salary Range: $67,704 to $83,410
Provides a variety of mental health services to the Latino community in the South Los Angeles and Boyle Heights. As an ISM therapist, services will be provided to children, their families and adults with chronic health conditions. Services may include individual, group, and family psychotherapy; initial assessments and intakes; treatment planning; collaboration with multidisciplinary treatment teams within and outside the Agency. The ISM program also offers Outreach and Engagement services to enroll potential Latino clients in mental health services or to help reduce the stigma of mental health in the Latino community by means of community presentations or workshops.
Clinical Therapist - Life Learning Center
Annualized Salary Range: $67,704.00 – $83,410.00
The Clinical Therapist for the Life Learning Center works with a comprehensive field based team that includes clinicians, case managers, employment specialists, and housing case managers. As a team member working with adolescents and young adults and their families/caregivers, handles cases as assigned, or performs intakes, for which the therapist interviews and collects information from clients, identifies symptoms, makes diagnoses and develops a therapeutic or treatment plan, runs therapy groups for children, adults &/or families/caregivers, plans and administers therapeutic treatment within accepted professional guidelines, performs & teaches behavioral interventions, social skills and anger management techniques, makes home, community & work site visits and counsels clients with creative culturally humble, healing centered interventions. The Clinical Therapist also consults with clinical supervisors, psychiatrists, internal and external peers or other specialists in the community and timely completes required progress notes and paperwork using a computerized system. Provides support on call and after hours to clients who call the stabilization line. Other duties will be assigned.
Clinical Therapist - Outpatient Services (Exposition Park)
Annualized Salary Range: $67,704 to $83,410
As a team member, handles cases as assigned, or performs intakes, for which the therapist interviews and collects information from clients, identifies symptoms, makes diagnoses and develops a therapeutic or treatment plan, runs therapy groups for children & families, plans and administers therapeutic treatment within accepted professional guidelines, makes home visits and counsels clients with accepted methods to assist client. Also consults with clinical supervisor, medical doctor, Wellnest peers or other specialists and timely completes required progress notes and paperwork. Meets or exceeds productivity and timely expectations.
Clinical Therapist - Outpatient Services (Leimert Park)
Annualized Salary Range: $67,704 to $83,410
The Clinical Therapist provides a variety of mental health services to culturally diverse population in Central and South Los Angeles Community. Clinical activities include but may not be limited to 1) assessment and diagnosis using DSM 5 and ICD-10 manuals, 2) collaboration with clients and caregivers to develop treatment plans focused on reducing impairment, improve resiliency and family functioning, and connecting families with supportive community resources, and 3) providing individual, family, and group psychotherapy in the office, at home, in schools, and in the community. Therapists work with a multidisciplinary team within and outside the agency which can include caregivers/parents, school staff, DCFS, Case Managers, and medical staff. Therapist must demonstrate an ability to relate to a culturally diverse population and staff. Therapists provide community outreach as a way to engage the community in life-long wellness and support of the agency. Therapist are responsible for timely completion of clinical documents using the agency’s Electronic Health Record including Treatment plans, Progress notes, Assessments, and other clinical documentation. These are expected to be compliant with state and LA County Department of Mental Health (DMH) guidelines and timeframes. Duties and responsibilities reflect Wellnest’s Core Values including Excellence and Integrity, Integrated and Accessible care, Life-Long Wellness, Empowerment and Respect, a Family-Focused Approach, and Productive Partnerships with other community institutions.
Director of Clinical Training and Intern Development
Annualized Salary Range: $108,675.00 – $122,107.00
The Director of Clinical Training and Intern Development is responsible for establishing and strengthening relationships with university partners for the recruitment, selection, orientation, development, and evaluation of social work and psychology graduate students completing their internship/training.
Facilitator
Salary Range: $23.78 – $28.49 Hourly
The Facilitator of the Wraparound Program will work on a team providing services to children and their families/caregivers involved in the Los Angeles County foster care system using a Wraparound services delivery model. This model maintains that team members assist high need children, and ensure their success in school, home, and other communities with the ideal goal of maintaining the child’s involvement in community settings. Using information regarding the family’s strengths, needs, history, cultural identity, and past traumatic experiences, the Facilitator empowers the family and child (or youth) by highlighting their strengths, assets, cultural background and discussing the youth’s identification with cultural norms, values, beliefs and practices. In this role, Facilitators are responsible for: 1) convening the team and ensuring the continuity of care and that all identified services in the Plan of Care are provided, 2) ensuring the application of family-centered practice by the entire team, 3) serving as the contact point for children, families, service providers and the community, and 4) ensuring there is continuous input and feedback from the family and service providers.
Home Visitor
Salary Range: $23.20 – $26.07 Hourly
The Home Visitor will provide services to caregivers and their newborns until the child reaches the age of 5.
Home Visitation services are offered to at-risk families to support parent-child attachment, child development, and linkage of families to resources. This program offered by Wellnest is based on the Healthy Families America model of home visiting. This model supports new parents at the time their new babies are born, and provides additional support and ongoing home visitation services during the important early years of a child’s life.
Parent Partner
Salary Range: $17.84 – $21.64 Hourly
The Parent Partner will work as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting the provision of services to children, youth, adults and their families/caregivers. The Parent Partner works closely with assigned child(ren)’s parent and/or caregiver(s) to represent their best interests and participate as a member in the Child and Family Team (CFT) Meeting, IEPs, and other external meetings as needed. The Parent Partner provides services in the field and in office as needed and demonstrates a strong ability to communicate in a team, mobilize and motivate people.
Psychology Training Coordinator
Annualized Salary Range: $81,907.00 to $91,731.00
The Psychology Training Coordinator is responsible for the annual recruiting, training, and evaluation of pre-doctoral students.