Licensed Clinical Therapist I

Salary : $76,918.40 - $108,451.20 Annually
Location : Throughout San Bernardino County, CA
Job Type: Full-time
Job Number: 26-13131-01
Department: Department of Behavioral Health
Opening Date: 02/28/2026
Closing Date: Continuous

The Job
Are you interested in using your clinical and administrative skills to make a difference in delivering health and wellness to millions of residents?

Join a team who is passionate about the services they provide and is committed to making a difference in the lives of the residents of San Bernardino County.
The San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) invites qualified professionals to apply for the position of Licensed Clinical Therapist I.Licensed Clinical Therapists I (Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical Social Worker, and Professional Clinical Counselor) work in a variety of programs providing rehabilitative mental health/substance use services in community behavioral health clinics, field, and institutional settings to children, adolescents, families, and older adults with severe mental health and substance use disorders. Applicants willing to work in forensics, criminal justice, or after-hours positions are encouraged to apply, as well as those seeking traditional schedules.
*Official Title: Clinical Therapist I

For additional details, please refer to theClinical Therapist I job description.

DBH is also accepting applications for Pre-Licensed Clinical Therapist Trainees, Pre-Licensed Clinical Therapists, and Licensed Clinical Therapists II. Please click on a job title to be redirected to the corresponding application. Each position requires its own application.
Hear from current therapists about their experiences within the County below!
The Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) is responsible for providing mental health and substance use disorder services to county residents who are experiencing major mental illness or substance abuse related issues. DBH provides mental health and substance use disorder prevention and treatment services to all age groups, with a primary emphasis on treating children/youth who may be seriously emotionally disturbed, adults who are experiencing a serious and persistent mental illness, and individuals who are experiencing substance use disorders. DBH also provides an array of outreach/engagement, prevention, and early intervention services. DBH's core values are service, integrity, accountability, and trust.

DBH is a unique County Department comprised of eight (8) direct service areas: Community Outpatient and Transitional Age Youth Services; Youth Collaborative and Justice Involved Services; Substance Use Disorder and Recovery Services; 24 Hour and Specialty Services; Adult Justice Involved and Diversion Services; Medical Services; Community Engagement and Equity Services; Office of Patients' Rights and five (5) indirect service areas: Administrative and Fiscal Services; Public Relations and Outreach Services; Program Support Services; Disaster and Safety Unit; and the Office of Compliance. The Department currently has a workforce in excess of 1500 positions and an approximate $800 million-dollar annual budget.

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The list established from this recruitment may be used to fill current and future vacancies as they occur throughout the Department.

EXCELLENT BENEFITS!
To review job-specific benefits, please refer to:
Summary of Benefits
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Pre-Employment Process: Prior to appointment, applicants must pass a background investigation, which includes fingerprinting and medical exam, which may include drug and/or TB testing. Applicants must be a U.S. Citizen or a permanent U.S. resident.

Shifts: Some programs offer 24-hour services; some assignments may require employees to work evenings, weekends, holidays, and on-call.

Travel: Travel throughout the County may be required depending on assignment. Employees will be required to make provision for transportation (mileage reimbursement at current IRS rate is available). At the time of hire, a valid California driver license and proof of automobile liability insurance must be produced and maintained for the individual providing the transportation.

Differential: Clinical therapists regularly assigned to work in detention facilities receive additional compensation. Indicate your interest and availability for positions assigned to detention facilities on the supplemental questionnaire.

Sponsorship: Please note San Bernardino County is not able to consider candidates who will require visa sponsorship at the time of application or in the future.

Minimum Requirements
License: Must be licensed in the State of California as a Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), or Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC). Applicants must indicate license number and expiration date on the Supplemental Questionnaire. A copy of license is required upon appointment. Licensure must be maintained and in good standing.

Desired Qualifications
Applicants fluent in American Sign Language, Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, and/or Vietnamese are strongly encouraged to apply. Additional compensation is associated with positions requiring the use of bilingual skills. Testing of bilingual skills may be required to receive additional compensation.

Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly desirable, however, not required:

• Government or private inpatient, psychiatric hospital or behavioral health clinics/programs/contract agencies, serving persistently mentally ill clients.
• Experience providing child/adolescent and family therapy.
• Experience in a crisis intervention/brief therapy setting with severely mentally ill adults/children.
• Experience in quality assurance or utilization review activities.
• Experience with intensive care coordination with physical health care providers for severely persistently mentally ill clients.
• Experience with case management for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.
• Experience with coordinating care for individuals with co-occurring substance disorders.
• Experience in transitional care coordination between inpatient and outpatient levels of care for medical complexity or severely persistently mentally ill adults and children.
• Experience working with detained youth and incarcerated adults in correctional settings, such as institutions/locked detention facilities or with probationers/offenders recently released from a correctional setting.
• Experience providing clinical supervision to those pursuing their Master's degree as a clinical therapist and pre-licensed clinicians.

Selection Process
Application Procedure: There will be a competitive evaluation of qualifications based on the information provided in the Application and the Supplemental Questionnaire. You are encouraged to include detailed descriptions of your qualifying experience, as only the most highly qualified applicants will be referred to the Department. Please ensure all relevant experience is indicated in the Application and responses to the Supplemental Questionnaire, as resumes and other attachments will not be reviewed for the competitive evaluation.
Completing your application with statements such as "see/refer to resume" or "see attached" rather than completing your work history may affect your eligibility or competitive evaluation score. Be sure to clearly describe your experience in meeting the minimum requirements.
Technical Assistance: If you require technical assistance, follow this link to or contact their Toll-Free Applicant Support line at (855) 524-5627. Please note that Human Resources is not responsible for any issues or delays caused by your internet connection, computer, or browser when submitting an application.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) / Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): San Bernardino County is an and Americans with DisabilitiesAct (ADA) compliant employer, dedicated to ensuring equal employment opportunities for allemployees and applicants.
ADA Accommodation: If you have a disability and need accommodations during the testing process, please submit the within one week of the recruitmentfiling deadline.

Veterans' Preference: Eligible veterans and their spouses or widows/widowers who are not current County employees may receive additional Veterans' Preference points. For details and instructions on how to request these points, please refer to the
For more important details,
Professional Unit

San Bernardino County offers a range of benefit programs for employees and their eligible dependents. These include health, dental, vision, and life insurance, as well as a variety of other voluntary benefits. Programs and benefit amounts vary and are based on bargaining unit, family size, hire date, plan selection, and number of hours worked.

Please review the appropriate * for more information

Refer to the appropriate MOU, contact the County's Employee Benefits and Services Division at (909) 387-5787 or visit the for more detailed information.

*Retirement benefits subject to change.
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COMPETITIVE EVALUATION INSTRUCTIONS: The information on the application and your responses to the following supplemental questions will be used in a competitive evaluation of qualifications. Detailed responses should be provided for each question in order to ensure qualifications are properly considered (do not refer to a resume). Each response must include the name of your employer(s), dates of employment where you gained the experience, and the title of your position(s). Employers listed on this questionnaire must also be listed and fully detailed in the work experience section of your application.

If you do not have any related experience, indicate "None" in the answer field.

• I understand.

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Professional License: Applicants must be a Licensed Therapist in the State of California.
Are you licensed in the State of California as an LMFT, LCSW, or LPCC?

• Yes
• No

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Professional License: If you answered "yes" to the above question, indicate the type of license you possess, the license number, and expiration date.If you do not possess a valid CA license, you are not eligible to continue in the selection process for this recruitment. For further employment consideration, you may submit an application for the pre-licensed positions.
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Describe your experience completing risk assessments (danger to self/suicidal, danger to others/homicidal, grave disability), de-escalating children, adolescents, adults, & families/significant people in the lives of those experiencing a crisis, providing crisis intervention services, coordinating care with resources in the crisis system of care. If you do not possess this type of experience, indicate "N/A."
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Describe your experience as a licensed therapist working within a government or private inpatient, psychiatric hospital or behavioral health clinics/programs/contract agencies, serving persistently mentally ill clients, or clients in general. If you do not possess this type of experience, indicate "N/A."
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Describe your experience providing child/adolescent family therapy. Describe the specific therapy techniques that you use. Describe in detail the number of cases assigned, experience monitoring cases, working with families, and collaborating with other agencies. If you do not possess this type of experience, indicate "N/A."
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Auditing: Describe your experience auditing behavioral health charts and participating in program audits. If you do not possess this type of experience, indicate "N/A."
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Quality of Care/Treatment Practices Review: Describe your experience reviewing quality of care and treatment practices in a behavioral health setting. If you do not possess this type of experience, indicate "N/A."
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Telephone Based Behavioral Health Screenings: Describe your experience providing telephone based support services assisting clients with mental health screenings and/or complaints and grievances and referrals. If you do not possess this type of experience, indicate "N/A."
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Indicate your willingness to work in the following programs (check all that apply):

• Outpatient Clinics (Behavioral Health)
• Detention Facilities (Youth/Adult)
• Outpatient Forensics
• Inpatient Facility (Arrowhead Regional Medical Center)
• Community Crisis Response Team (Behavioral Health)
• Member Services Center - ACCESS Unit (Behavioral Health)
• Integrated Health/ Complex Care Coordination (Behavioral Health)
• Children and Adolescent Field and Community Based Services (Behavioral Health)
• Field Based Programs (Behavioral Health)
• None of the above

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Program Availability: Positions within the Adult Continuing Care Long Term Care Program within the Department of Behavioral Health will be required to visit State Hospitals, adult locked psychiatric facilities (in county and out of county), and skilled nursing facilities.Indicate your interest in working in this program below.

• Yes, I am interested and available to work in the Adult Continuing Care Long Term Care Program.
• No, I am not interested or available to work in the Adult Continuing Care Long Term Care Program.

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Correctional Health Care/Forensics Populations: Some positions may require working in locked detention facilities, with probationers, or offenders recently released from a correctional setting. Indicate your willingness to work with these populations and/or within this environment. (Check all that apply.)

• Juvenile Justice Community Reintegration - Youth recently released from a Juvenile Detention setting
• Adult Criminal Justice - Adults under Probation supervision -OR- Adults with extensive forensic background. (You must be willing to work in a Probation setting for positions working with the Adult Criminal Justice population.)
• Adult Correctional Health Care - Adults currently incarcerated in a jail setting
• Youth Correctional Health Care - Youth currently detained in a Juvenile Detention setting
• RBEST/TEST - Some positions within the Recovery Based Engagement Teams (RBEST) and Triage Engagement and Support Teams (TEST) require entering and/or working within a probation or jail setting such as West Valley Detention Center.
• None - I am not willing to work with any of these populations. Checking this option WILL NOT preclude you from being considered for other programs that do not work with correctional health care/forensics populations.

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Background Check and/or Polygraph Testing: An extensive background check and possible polygraph testing may be required for positions working with the Juvenile Justice and Correctional Health Care populations as described in the above question. Are you willing to participate in the background check process and submit to polygraph (lie detector) testing?

• Yes, I am willing to participate in the extensive background check process and submit to polygraph (lie detector) testing.
• Yes, I am willing to participate in the extensive background check process; however, I am not willing to submit to polygraph (lie detector) testing. Applicants who select this option are eligible for positions in Adult Correctional Health Care, and out-of-custody Juvenile Justice programs as they do not require polygraph testing.
• No, I am not willing to participate in the extensive background check process and submit to polygraph (lie detector) testing. Applicants who select this option may be disqualified from the selection process for Juvenile Justice and/or Correctional Health Care positions.

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Applicant Acknowledgement - Notification via Email: As part of our efforts to increase efficiency and promote conservation of resources, Human resources uses email to communicate with applicants. Therefore, all future communications regarding this recruitment, including applicant status and testing notifications, will be made via email.We strongly encourage you, as an applicant, to ensure that the email address you have provided with your application is current, secure and readily accessible to you. Adjust Spam and/or other filters so that our emails are accepted. Please carefully read any notices that we send you and follow any instructions provided in a timely manner. We will not be responsible in any way if you do not receive our emails (i.e., for the non-delivery of our emails or if you fail to check your e-mail on a timely basis).

• I acknowledge that I have read, understood, and agree to the above statement.

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Note: If you apply the filters and still do not receive emails from San Bernardino County Human Resources you can check your (Neogov) account inbox. All notifications will appear there.

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Applicant's Acknowledgement - Application Complete: Thank you for taking the time to complete this application and supplemental questionnaire. Please be sure to review all information provided prior to submitting it as you cannot update or revise it once submitted. Your submitted application will be reviewed and evaluated as is. Please do not refer to a resume or other documentation in lieu of completing the employment history section or responding to the supplemental questions; they will not be reviewed or considered. Once your application has been successfully submitted, you will receive an onscreen confirmation and an email confirmation will be sent to the email address listed on your application. We recommend that you save and/or print these for your records. Please note, if you do not receive an onscreen confirmation and an email acknowledging our receipt of your application we have not received your application.

• I acknowledge that I have reviewed my application and understand that I will not be able to update or revise any part of it once submitted.

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