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About the Role
Open Door Legal (ODL) is seeking a Licensed Clinical Social Worker to provide clinical care within their legal services. This role will assess client needs, offer support, and connect them to community resources, while also helping to shape the organization's clinical programs and train staff. The goal is to ensure clients feel supported throughout their legal process and to improve case outcomes by addressing psychosocial factors.
Responsibilities
- Embody the mission of universal access to civil legal aid and ensure client needs are met, achieving good legal outcomes and high client satisfaction.
- Provide direct clinical support and psychosocial assessments to clients navigating legal matters, in coordination with attorneys and paralegals.
- Offer supportive crisis management and clinical intervention strategies to improve client engagement and case outcomes.
- Coordinate with legal teams to discuss how psychosocial factors may affect legal outcomes.
- Supervise, train, and evaluate MSW-level interns, managing academic institution partner requirements.
- Develop and maintain a referral network of community-based resources (housing, mental health, benefits, healthcare).
- Support organizational training on trauma-informed and culturally humble practice for legal staff.
- Provide services and support to low-income clients with sensitivity to cultural, socio-economic, and disability barriers.
- Skillfully navigate difficult or tense situations.
- Embrace and embody values of teamwork, grit, caring, passion, and dynamism.
Requirements
- Active, current license as LCSW registered with the CA Board of Behavioral Sciences.
- At least one (1) year of clinical experience post-licensure working with adult populations.
- Genuine motivation for working with low-income clients, including those impacted by trauma, substance use disorder, or chronic homelessness.
- Ability to work effectively with diverse client populations.
- Strong time management skills for supervising and performing clinical support in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
- Enthusiasm for and commitment to self-learning and professional development.
- Ability and willingness to work out of one or more office locations at least four (4) days/week.
- High comfort level with learning and using technology and case management systems (Salesforce, Dropbox, Google Suite).
- Active demonstration of cultural humility and sensitivity to barriers faced by low-income San Franciscans.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
Skills
- Clinical support
- Psychosocial assessments
- Crisis management
- Clinical intervention strategies
- Supervision
- Training
- Mentoring
- Community resource networking
- Trauma-informed practice
- Culturally humble practice
- Time management
- Technology proficiency
- Case management systems
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-Time
- Hybrid
- Exempt
Experience Level
- At least one (1) year of clinical experience post-licensure
Education Level
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Salary/Compensations
- $95,500-$111,500
Benefits
- Loan Repayment Assistance
- Medical/Dental/Vision Plan offerings at 100% coverage
- Generous paid time off (four weeks vacation and two weeks sick/care)
- Flexible work hours
- Generous paid parental leave
- 401K/Retirement Account
- Financial investment in individual professional development (mentorships, coaching, learning opportunities)
- Best-in-class technology solutions
About the Company
- We believe that even the biggest problems can be broken down into small, achievable steps.
- At Open Door Legal (ODL), we’re pioneering the country’s first system of universal access to civil legal representation to dramatically reduce poverty and prove that the law really can belong to all of us.
- We’ve grown 150x in 10 years, and in the next 2 years, we hope to finish scaling across San Francisco.
- We’ve created an award-winning and best-in-class legal aid organization full of passionate, motivated, gritty, thoughtful, and team-oriented people.
- We believe that injustice is the heart of poverty, and we're looking for someone to join us in ensuring justice for all.
- We are a fun and hard-working office with best-in-class technology solutions for anyone who’s passionate about making a meaningful and measurable difference.
Equal Opportunity
- Open Door Legal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
- We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.