• The Clinical Lead ensures that every student receiving individual clinical psychosocial support services is provided with the highest quality of ethical care possible. The Clinical Lead provides clinical supervisors with supervision services, provides psychosocial support to high-risk students, and collaborates with other care providers to ensure students receive the care they need.

Roles and responsibilities:

Clinical supervision 

• Provide clinical supervisors with individual clinical supervision.
• Facilitate group clinical case supervision sessions as needed.
• Regularly conduct care provider wellness checks.
• Implement restorative caregiver wellness solutions.

Clinical psychosocial support 

• The first point of referral by clinical supervisors for high-risk cases requiring immediate intervention.
• Handle high-risk student cases.
• Take point on managing child welfare/protection case handling.

Monitoring and Evaluation 

• Review clinical supervisor practices to ensure treatment quality and integrity.
• Facilitating in-house clinical case conferences.
• Ensuring caregiver practices meet ethical and organizational standards.

Collaboration and Advocacy 

• Foster relationships with local care providers to ensure students receive needed support.
• Oversee internal and external referrals.
• Oversee and approve all clinical case reporting and briefings provided to outside parties, e.g.,
• schools.

Liaison 

• Provide necessary reports to the Clinical Operation team.
• Provide clinical training needs reports to the Clinical Operations team.
• Provide supervision reports to the Clinical Operations team.

Requirements:

• At least an undergraduate degree in psychology, counselling psychology, or social work; a master’s qualification is preferable but not required.
• Minimum of four years of relevant continuous working experience providing counselling/psychotherapy to adolescents.
• Experience supervising care providers in a mental healthcare setting.
• Experience working with adolescents in a counselling/psychotherapy setting.
• Registration with a professional accreditation body e.g., KCPA.
• Experience in a leadership/team management role in a caregiving setting.
• Excellent written communication skills, both writing and speaking.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to collaborate with others; a positive team player with a strong work ethic and passion for helping others.