Clinical Manager

Summary

Join Cartwheel's founding Arizona clinical team and help address the student mental health crisis. As a Clinical Manager, you will lead a multi-state team of clinicians, providing therapeutic care to students and families. You'll collaborate with the VP of Clinical Care to enhance the care model and contribute to Cartwheel's growth as a trusted mental health partner for schools. This is a remote, full-time, salaried W2 position starting in February 2025, with team retreats in Boston. The role requires significant experience in pediatric behavioral health and team management, fluency in Spanish, and a passion for serving underserved communities. Cartwheel offers competitive compensation, equity, excellent benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• You are fluent in Spanish (required)
• Independently licensed to deliver mental health care (LCSW, LICSW, LMHC, LCPC, PhD/PsyD etc.)
• 5+ years of experience managing a team in a pediatric behavioral health setting (ideally including work with students and/or school systems)
• 5+ years of direct clinical experience with comfort managing clinical supervision, managing clinical complexity and safety/risk, and crisis interventions
• Significant experience with short-term, skills-based care delivery
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to coordinate across many stakeholders and prioritize tasks
• Desire to work with an entrepreneurial team to build a new program
• Fluency with data-driven decision-making and you have experience managing issues related to clinical quality and productivity
• Commitment to serving communities traditionally overlooked in the healthcare setting – uninsured and underinsured families, youth in foster care, English learners, etc
• Passion for our mission to tackle the youth mental health crisis!

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of around 20-25 FTE equivalent with a mix of full time and part time team members, ensuring they have the training, skills, and support to deliver excellent care to students and families
• Support hiring and onboarding of an experienced and diverse Care Team
• Deliver clinical supervision in collaboration with other seasoned clinicians on the team
• Provide ongoing training and mentorship to your clinical team, ensuring they feel supported, connected, and effective in their role as a frontline clinician
• Work with the Head of Clinical Care to enhance clinician productivity and efficiency while still prioritizing quality of care and clinician experience
• Work with the Head of Operations to monitor clinical outcomes, efficiency of our internal processes, and overall effectiveness of your care team
• Build positive Care Team culture through team meetings, caring communication, and other innovative strategies to inspire a diverse and remote team
• Deliver direct care to a small group of your own patients (depending on your capacity)
• Partner with the Chief Medical Office and VP of Clinical Care to expand, refine, and scale our Care Model and clinical programming based on the needs you see within your team and from our school partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in other languages (e.g., Spanish, Navajo, Apache, and Hopi)
• PST/MST timezone preferred
• Experience working with American Indian/Native/Indigenous populations, immigrant populations, rural communities, and/or military families

Benefits

• Cash compensation between $100,000 to $120,000
• Equity ownership stake in the company
• High-quality health insurance with a $0 monthly premium option for employees
• Dental, Vision, and Employer-Sponsored Life Insurance
• 4 weeks of paid PTO (3 weeks any time + 1 week office closure in December)
• Sick Leave + Holidays
• 401K with 2% employer match
• Free cross-licensure opportunities
• Access to free online accredited continuing education and a CEU stipend
• Administrative support from our experienced, full-time Care Coordinators, and optional access to an AI-enabled medical scribe that saves you hours of documentation time (this is used and loved by the majority of Cartwheel clinicians!)
• Team-based care model with mission-driven colleagues
• Opportunities beyond clinical care, including working closely with schools on staff support, workshops, and other programming