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As leaders in children’s mental health and wellness, St. Louis Children’s and KVC Health Systems Youth Mental Health Care have partnered to create one of the nation’s most innovative and transformative youth mental health and wellness campuses. The partnership includes a 77-bed acute care hospital and outpatient programs. Located on the KVC Missouri Children’s Mental Wellness Campus conveniently located in Webster Groves, Missouri, the peaceful environment and broad continuum of care allow children and families to access the appropriate level of treatment throughout their healing experience. The new campus is slated to open in late 2026. Learn more at stlouischildrenskvc.org.
Join us and be a part of this journey of healing and hope for thousands of children and teens.
Job Summary
The Outpatient Clinical Manager is responsible for the supervision of therapists, case managers, and behavioral health technicians. Ensure outpatient staff are providing ongoing, high-quality therapeutic services to clients in outpatient programming. Ensure staff complete the required assessments within time frames.
Essential Duties:
- Provides support to staff by providing clinical supervision, case consultations, assistance with assessments, case notes, etc.
- Lead clinical service staff meetings and participate in leadership meetings
- Collaborate with nursing the compliance of psychiatric services
- Ensure compliance of psychological service
- Coordinate efficient use of all clinical staff to meet treatment plan requirements of KVC
- Provide efficient use of Clinical service resources to ensure that staff complete job duties within the budget limits
- Direct the Clinical service staff to meet clinical assessment guidelines
- Coordinate the staff to meet the priority of clinical needs of each client
- Supervise clinical service staff to have timely and accurate communication with all agencies and parents on the current
- progress of each client’s treatment progress
- Create and maintain current Clinical service program evaluation data
- Comply with of all therapeutic expectations of KVC to those of referring agencies and Joint Commission guidelines
- Ensure that Medicaid Services are provided in the most effective manner, meeting all regulations, and that billing is both timely and accurate on the part of the therapists.
- Approves, completes and organizes documentation in the Electronic Medical Record
Minimum Requirements
Education:Must possess a master’s degree in social work, counseling, or a relevant related
Licensure/Certification: Must hold a license in the state of Missouri as an LPC or LCSW
Qualifications:
- Valid driver’s license and auto insurance
- Special interest in and knowledge of family systems, experience in residential treatment, child welfare, or a mental health setting
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills of interpersonal engagement, crisis intervention, communication, and child protection
- Strong written, verbal, communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Typing and Microsoft Office skills
- Excellent physical condition and capable of assuming a leadership role in the programs
- Ability to make objective assessments, evaluations and decisions
Experience:
- Three years of professional clinical experience in outpatient or residential treatment providing services to individuals, groups, and families
- Two years of supervisory and administrative experience.
Preferred Experience/Skills:
- Eligible to supervise provisional licensure for PLPC or LMSW
- Work with children and families in a trauma informed environment
Benefits & More
Employee benefits and culture fall under the KVC Health Systems umbrella. KVC is a family of private, nonprofit organizations that strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help people achieve mental health wellness. Through our broad continuum of care, we are proud to be a national leader in mental health, child welfare, and health and human services transformation.
At KVC, we offer a positive, supportive workplace where each person can do work they love. In fact, we’re so proud of our culture that we see it as our top competitive advantage in the health and human services field. Based on the voice of our employees, KVC has an incredible 83 Work Wellbeing score on Indeed, a rating so high and rare that it places KVC among the top 1% of employers nationally. KVC was also named #15 on Glassdoor’s Best-Led Companies 2025 list, a recognition achieved entirely based on anonymous employee reviews. In addition to being mission-driven, we offer employees an unparalleled level of flexibility, wellbeing, learning, inclusion, recognition, and rewards.
Skills Required
- Master’s degree in social work, counseling, or a relevant related field
- Missouri license as an LPC or LCSW
- Valid driver’s license and auto insurance
- Knowledge of family systems and experience in residential treatment, child welfare, or mental health
- Knowledge and skills in interpersonal engagement, crisis intervention, communication, and child protection
- Strong written, verbal, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Typing and Microsoft Office skills
- Ability to assume a leadership role and make objective assessments, evaluations, and decisions
- Three years of professional clinical experience in outpatient or residential treatment
- Two years of supervisory and administrative experience
- Eligibility to supervise provisional licensure for PLPC or LMSW
- Experience working with children and families in a trauma-informed environment
What We Do
At KVC Health Systems, our 2,800 caring team members work every day to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental wellness. We all need connection! And at KVC, our employees are our greatest asset and strength, helping the people we serve experience the power of connection to themselves, their family and friends, and to professionals who can help them thrive. We're working toward a bold vision: a world in which every person is SAFE and CONNECTED to a strong family and a healthy community. No more child abuse and neglect. No more untreated mental illness or addiction. Parents no longer pass down the cycles of violence, substance use or trauma that they experienced as children. Instead, families have the skills and supportive connections they need to thrive. Every individual has unlimited possibilities and can reach their full potential. This is why the KVC team comes to work every day, providing family strengthening services, mental and behavioral healthcare, foster care, adoption and inpatient children’s mental health treatment. People are facing serious challenges, and community needs are greater than ever. Will you join us? Since 1970, KVC has grown from a single home for at-risk children to a national organization serving over 80,000 children and families each year in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky and West Virginia. KVC also provides training and consultation around the world. We're a family of private, nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations committed to enriching and enhancing the lives of children and families. Learn more at www.kvc.org.
