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 102 years, we have been providing holistic emotional health and wellness services within the community. Today, we touch 273,000 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 thirteen paid holidays, up to five paid days off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, educational leave training, and one Wellnest Day (paid floating holiday).
- Wellnest offers a monthly allowance of $833.33 ($10,000 annually) to support the cost of an employee and their dependents’ 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.
- Wellnest also offers access to pet insurance for your dog or cat through PetPartners, where once enrolled eligible expenses for vet bills can be submitted for reimbursement.
*Leadership positions may be entitled to additional benefits. Human Resources will provide benefits information specific to your leadership role
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.
In accordance with federal transparency requirements under the Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 133) and the Transparency in Coverage regulations, Kaiser Permanente and Anthem make its machine readable files publicly available, which can be viewed through the above links. These files include in network negotiated rates and out of network allowed amounts and are maintained on Kaiser Permanente’s and Anthem’s official public website.
Career Opportunities
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Case Manager
Salary Range: $22.64 – $25.44 Hourly
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.
Case Manager (Access)
Salary Range: $23.40 – $28.02 Hourly
The Case Manager acts as a primary liaison between various client referral sources while providing walk-in screenings and offering resources and referrals for all applicants seeking services for severely emotionally disturbed children and the family/caregivers who support them.
The Case Manager assesses resources and skill-building needs of Wellnest clients, and provides ongoing outpatient and school-based mental health and case management services. The Case Manager also tracks a variety of client referral sources including but not limited to: Walk-Ins, Specialized Foster Care (SFC), and Family Preservation (FP).
Clinical Therapist I (Access)
Annualized Salary Range: $70,716.00 – $94,475.00 Salary
The Clinical Therapist I 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 the agency’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.
Clinical Therapist I (Expo Park)
Annual Salary Range: $70,716.00 – $94,475.00
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. Clinical Therapist 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 I - Intensive Services (Expo Park)
Annual Salary Range: $70,716.00 – $79,344.00 Salary
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.
Director of Client Care Coordination
Salary Range: $67,980.00 – $101,970.00 Hourly
The Director of Client Care Coordination serves as a primary point of contact for clients and families, supporting access to care through multi-program and service site appointment coordination and scheduling, intake support, care plan follow-up, referral management, documentation, and cross-department communication. This role combines client-facing support, administrative coordination, and care management responsibilities to help ensure clients receive timely, organized, and person-centered services.
Director of Corporate & Major Gifts (University Park)
Salary Range: $135,000.00 – $150,000.00 Salary
The Director of Corporate & Major Gifts is a senior philanthropy leader responsible for securing significant philanthropic investments from individuals, corporations, foundations, and community partners. Reporting directly to the Vice President of Philanthropy, this position serves as a frontline fundraiser, relationship strategist, and ambassador for Wellnest, cultivating high-impact partnerships that advance the organization’s mission and strategic priorities.
The Director will manage a portfolio of major donors and corporate partners capable of making investments ranging from $10,000 to seven figures, while developing new opportunities for sponsorships, corporate engagement, employee giving, volunteerism, and long-term philanthropic support. Success in this role requires exceptional relationship-building skills, strategic thinking, a demonstrated record of securing major gifts, and the ability to confidently represent Wellnest among philanthropic, corporate, and community leaders throughout Los Angeles.
External engagement and relationship development are core functions of this role. The Director is expected to maintain a consistent presence in the community, regularly attending events and networking opportunities that support donor cultivation, corporate partnership development, brand visibility, and long-term philanthropic growth.
Home Visitor (University Park)
Salary Range: $21.89 – $27.64 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.
IS Support Clerk (Expo Park)
Salary Range: $19.95 – $22.49 Hourly
The IS Support Clerk performs patient care functions, knowledgeable of LA County Department of Mental Health Medi-Cal Insurance and Other Health Coverage as well as Medicare coverage requirements/guidelines for behavioral healthcare preferred. Attends LA County DMH Financial Trainings and Staff Meetings.
The IS Support Clerk has Excellent organizational, interpersonal, problem-solving, time management, and communication skills, both verbal and written. Exceptional understanding of exemplary customer service, team player, flexible, detail-oriented and able to work independently.
Parent Partner
Salary Range:$20.65 – $24.73 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.
Sr. Financial Analyst
Salary Range:$66,000.00 – $99,000.00 Salary
The Sr. Financial Analyst is responsible for driving cost-saving initiatives and financial strategy by preparing financial models, tracking the company’s financial performance against annual budgets and established contracts with various government and private agencies, and synthesizing clinical, statistical, and billing data to help improve operational margins.
