Voice Up LCSW 100% Remote Mentor Community Health Workers

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Community-Based Behavioral Health Innovation & Workforce Development
Organization: Voice Up
Location: California (Hybrid / Remote with community engagement)
Status: Part-Time Scalable to Full-Time (Phased Growth)

About the Role
This is not a traditional clinical role.
The LCSW will serve as a Clinical Supervisor and System Builder within an innovative, community-rooted behavioral health model that integrates:
Community Health Workers (CHWs)
Peer-based support systems (Ally Talks)
Digital navigation tools (Ally Health Compass)
Purpose-driven workforce development (Voice Up model)
This role is designed for clinicians who want to expand access to care upstream, focusing on prevention, engagement, and community-based support.

Position Purpose
To provide clinical oversight, supervision, and ethical guidance for a growing workforce of Community Health Workers and trainees delivering nonclinical behavioral health services across underserved communities.
You will help build:
A scalable, supervised behavioral health workforce that bridges lived experience and formal care systems.

Key Responsibilities
Clinical Supervision
Provide weekly supervision (minimum 60 minutes) to CHWs, interns, and trainees
Review participant interactions, outreach activities, and navigation efforts
Ensure all services remain within appropriate scope of practice

Risk Management & Escalation
Identify and manage clinical risk (e.g., suicidality, crisis, trauma)
Establish and oversee escalation pathways to higher levels of care
Support safe, ethical decision-making across the team

Documentation & Compliance
Review and sign off on:
Supervision notes
Competency evaluations
Service documentation
Ensure alignment with:
HIPAA
Medi-Cal CHW service expectations
University training requirements (when applicable)

Workforce Development
Support development of CHWs into:
Skilled community-based providers
Future behavioral health professionals
Provide guidance on:
Cultural humility
Trauma-informed engagement
Care coordination

Program Design & Innovation
Collaborate with leadership to:
Refine the clinical supervision framework
Align services with Medi-Cal reimbursement pathways
Strengthen integration with healthcare systems

What Makes This Role Different
This role:
Is not primarily therapy-based
Does not focus on individual caseload billing
This role:
Supervises and scales a community workforce
Bridges clinical systems and lived experience
Builds new models of behavioral health access

Minimum Qualifications
Active LCSW license in California (required)
Minimum 2 years post-licensure experience
Experience in one or more:
Community mental health
Behavioral health outreach
Trauma-informed care
Population health / care navigation

Preferred Qualifications
Experience supervising:
CHWs, interns, or trainees
Familiarity with:
Medi-Cal or Medicaid systems
Multilingual or multicultural experience
Interest in innovation, systems-building, or public health

Ideal Candidate Profile
You are:
A clinician who believes care should start before crisis
Comfortable working with nontraditional workforce models
Passionate about equity, access, and community trust
Interested in helping shape a new category of behavioral health delivery

Compensation Structure
Initial stipend: $250 $500 per month (early-stage, limited hours)
Estimated time commitment: 3 6 hours per week
Equivalent hourly range: blended, based on workload
Growth Path:
Transition to $50 $90/hour as:

Participant volume increases
Grant funding is secured
Medi-Cal partnerships are activated
Long-term pathway to:

Part-time or full-time supervisory roles
Program leadership positions tied to funded initiatives

Growth Path
Phase 1:
Light supervision + program build (pilot stage)
Phase 2:
Expanded oversight across multiple cohorts
Phase 3:
Leadership roles in:
Clinical program design
Medi-Cal integration
Statewide / national expansion

Why Join This Work
You will be part of building:
A next-generation behavioral health workforce model
that transforms how communities access care.
This is an opportunity to:
Expand your impact beyond traditional therapy
Shape systems, not just serve within them
Help define the future of community-based mental health

How to Apply
Submit:
Resume / CV
Brief statement (1 2 paragraphs):
Why are you interested in building community-based behavioral health systems?

Final Note
This role is intentionally designed to start lean and grow with the model.
It is ideal for LCSWs who want to:
Engage in meaningful innovation
Contribute to early-stage system building
Grow into larger leadership and compensated roles over time

The third pathway is longitudinal academic research collaboration. Voice Up stewards what its documentation describes as potentially one of the world's most comprehensive integrated datasets on how eighteen to twenty-nine-year-olds connect purpose to life decisions covering career selection, educational pathways, and major life transitions across every demographic category. Researchers at San Jose State University's School of Public Health have described Voice Up's outcomes as "very impressive" and are designing a retrospective evaluation study. Georgia State University doctoral students are co-designing a Photo Voice methodology with Voice Up participants. The research infrastructure is active and expanding.
"Voice Up is not a vendor. We are a research-grounded, purpose-driven partner. Our institutional collaborations are built on mutual investment, shared mission, and long-term relationship not transactions."