Salary: $6,450.73 - $8,171.85 Monthly
Location : McMinnville, OR
Job Type: Regular Full-Time
Job Number: BH26-088
Department: Health and Human Services
Division: Health & Human Services (All Divisions)
Opening Date: 09/01/2026
Closing Date: 9/15/2026 5:00 PM Pacific

PLEASE NOTE: Salary is dependent on experience. Yamhill County typically hires between steps 1-4
Yamhill County has one regular full-time position for a General Outpatient Therapist (QMHP) to provide integrated behavioral health services using training and experience in evidence-based practices for adults with co-occurring mental health conditions such as serious mental illness, trauma disorders, and/or moderate mental health conditions. Duties will include providing treatment to assigned clients, diagnosis and treatment planning activities, maintaining accurate treatment records, effective case management, while working closely with an integrated behavioral health team. We are actively working on being a trauma informed agency. This position provides a great opportunity for professional development and advancement in clinical skills.

This position may be filled as either an Advanced Practice Behavioral Health Clinician or a Behavioral Health Clinician, depending on experience and credentialing.

Please see classification specifications below for details.

Advanced Practice Behavioral Health Clinician Salary: $6450 - $8171/month (DOE)

Behavioral Health Clinician Salary: $5925 - $7571/month (DOE)

The Benefits:

Yamhill County offers generous employee benefits:

• 15 paid holidays per year.
• 19.5 days of Flexible Earned Time (FET) accrual in the first year (based on an 8-hr day).*
• PERS (Public Employee Retirement System) - 100% employer funded contributions.
• Full health benefit offerings with employee premiums starting as low as $89.02/month for PPO or $0/month for HMO during current plan year 2025-2026. *

Additional benefits for HHS employees:

• $750 and 40 hours of paid time annually for professional development/training.
• $200 annually toward required license and/or certification fees.
• HRSA/NHSC approved site with many loan repayment opportunities available.
• Qualifying employer for
• Most positions are eligible to accrue overtime.*

*Subject to the (7/1/2023 - 6/30/2026).

The Qualifications:

Required

A MSW or master's degree in a social services field from an accredited school is required in addition to:

Behavioral Health Clinician:

• One year of experience as a Human Services Specialist I.
• Any satisfactory equivalent combination of experience and training which ensures ability to perform the work may substitute for the above.
• Must qualify as a QMHP to work in respective field.
• May require licensing.

Advanced Practice Behavioral Health Clinician:

• Three years post-master's experience.
• Active professional license in the state of Oregon as a Qualified Mental Health Provider (QMHP).

Preference will be given to those applicants with training and experience in evidence-based practices and experience providing intensive mental health and addictions services in a community-based setting. Additional preference may be given to those that are fluent in English and Spanish. The successful candidate must have an NPI number or the ability to obtain one upon employment. Will be subject to successful completion of a background check.

The Candidate:

To be successful in this role you must have a working knowledge of techniques specifically related to community mental health services and the following abilities.

• To understand the behavior of people under stress.
• To develop and maintain effective cooperative relationships with clients and their families, the community, physicians, law enforcement agencies, the courts, and public and private administrators.
• To interpret community mental health and chemical dependency services, and to prepare concise and complete client treatment and progress records.

Typing and computer proficiency are required for collaborative documentation, Additionally, you should have excellent communication skills, be dependable, organized, self-directed, detail-oriented, and possess the ability to work in a team environment and to interact with co-workers, clients, and the public in a courteous, professional manner.
Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of this classification with or without accommodation.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
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Minimum Experience and Training/Other Requirements
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Work Environment/Physical Demands
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Health Coverage - Group medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage is available for the entire family. For the 2025-2026 plan year, the County will pay 97% of the monthly premium and employees will pay 3% ($89.02 per month) for the PPO Base Plan. With this plan, employees are eligible for a $125 a month contribution into an HRA VEBA account. Buy-up plans are also available. The employee premium for the HMO plan is $0.00, with the HMO plan employees are not eligible for the HRA Veba Account.

Retirement - PERS (Public Employee Retirement System) contribution is 100% employer funded, which includes both contribution to PERS pension and IAP accounts (IAP contribution is 6% of salary).

Short-Term Disability - 100% County paid.

Life insurance - $10,000 for employee/$2,000 for spouse and children - 100% County Paid.

Vacation/Sick Leave - Flexible Earned Time (FET) is a combination of vacation and sick leave. To start, employees earn 13 hours per month and future accruals increase based on years of service. After a year of service and depending on FET balance, employees may sell-back up to 40 hours of FET per year.