Director of Training

Our nationally accredited team is currently seeking a Director of Training, to d esign and lead the organization’s master’s level graduate internship program in counseling .

Our Mission : At Transitions Counseling and Consulting, we provide accessible, skilled mental health services for children, teenagers, and adults at convenient locations throughout Arizona. Our mission is to provide safe, high-quality mental health services in an ethical environment that embraces diversity and to train the next generation of therapists to also do so competently and confidently.

Why Work With Us?

• Competitive Compensation: Salary position ($75,000 to $85,000)
• Generous Time Off : Receive 180+ hours off in your first year, including PTO, sick time, holidays, and your birthday.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage : Choose from multiple BCBS medical plans, including access to Blue365 for discounts on apparel, fitness, travel, and more.
• Dental & Vision Plans : Comprehensive coverage to keep you and your family covered.
• Retirement Savings : 401(k) to help you plan for the future.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) : Employer-matched contributions to support your healthcare needs.
• Dependent Care FSA : Tax-advantaged savings for childcare and dependent care expenses.
• Wellness Resources : Access to the Sharecare wellness platform for health tools, resources, and personalized support.
• Professional Growth: Professional training opportunities including EMDR, DBT, ACT, and more, plus free monthly CE hours up to a total of 24 free CE hours per year. W e invest in your growth from day one! Our onboarding process includes 8 continuing education hours in courses sponsored by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), accessible to you for FREE when you join our team! Our goal is for every clinician to experience lasting growth in their clinical skillset, beginning on their very first day with us.
• Supervision and Support: Free supervision for LACs, LMSWs, and LAMFTs, along with excellent professional liability insurance. No-show protection for contracted team members.
• Advancement and Promotion Opportunities: Grow within our organization with advancement and clinical supervision opportunities. Over 50% of our supervisor and director positions are filled by internal team members, and we boast a 100% success rate from associate to independent licensure.
• Collaborative Culture: Join a team with a strong, supportive culture and robust back-office support for care coordination, scheduling, and billing.
• Clinically Driven Leadership: Work for a business run by experienced mental health professionals who understand the nature of delivering mental health care, ensuring your clinical work and professional growth are guided by empathetic and supportive leadership.

Your Role:

• Provide direct supervision of interns’ clinical and learning activities including signing clinical documentation.
• Guide and participate in the internship recruitment and selection process, ensuring all training slots are filled annually with qualified candidates.
• Lead internship onboarding activities.
• Address personnel issues specific to interns.
• Maintain required professional documentation specific to training and supervision and serve as the point of contact for various credentialing and licensing bodies on behalf of interns.
• Serve as the company liaison with major universities and training programs and expand those relationships to support recruitment of diverse interns.
• Administer the company’s accreditation requirements for continuing education including record keeping and quality assurance activities per the National Board for Certified Counselors.
• Coordinate the formal training activities offered at the company including the monthly structured didactic program, monthly leadership skill training, annual skills training, etc.
• Create and deliver high quality, academic training presentations and programs based in science in multiple formats including recording asynchronous training.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives specific to the internship training program.
• Maintain direct clinical services via agreed upon schedule.

Qualifications :

• Master’s degree in counseling, social work, psychology or related field.
• Continuously licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners or the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners, on an independent level, such as LPC or LCSW.
• Maintain Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners Supervisor registration or be willing to complete activities required to initiate that credential within the first30 days of hire and to maintain it continuously.
• Possess and maintain a Fingerprint Clearance Card.
• No suspension/exclusion/debarment from participation in federal health care programs (e.g., TriWest, TRICARE, Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, etc.)

Required Experience:

• Working knowledge of clinical supervision frameworks and relevant requirements for supervising clinicians.
• Experience with teaching graduate-level counseling education or directly supervising graduate interns seeking clinical social science degrees.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience analyzing and applying performance data to meet individual, team, and organizational goals.

Preferred Experience:

• One plus (1+) years of experience in supervision and management within a healthcare setting.

Excited to Make a Real Impact? If you're passionate about delivering exceptional mental health care, eager to help our community, and enthusiastic about learning, we want you on our team!

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