Clinical Manager

Join Cartwheel to help tackle the student mental health crisis as part of its founding Arizona clinical team. 

Cartwheel is an early-stage company building a new kind of mental health program for kids that puts schools at the center. We see our role as supporting school staff who see kids every single day. Instead of going around them, we collaborate with them. This means: 

• Earlier intervention
• Higher student and family engagement in care
• Better coordination among the trusted adults in a student’s life 

Kids shouldn't just aspire to get out of bed and drag themselves to class. They should be able to experience joy. They deserve to envision and build a life they’re excited to live. If you join Cartwheel, you’ll help make this vision a reality for millions of students across the country. 

CARTWHEEL IN ARIZONA

Cartwheel is excited to be launching in Arizona in 2025 and scaling quickly through the year via our partnership model. As a Cartwheel clinician in Arizona, you will serve on the founding team for this region and will have an opportunity to be at the cutting edge of a new mental health care delivery model for Arizona students and families, with a particular focus on rural counties.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Clinical Manager, you will lead and inspire a multi-state team of clinicians providing therapeutic care to students and families. You’ll work directly with the VP of Clinical Care to develop and improve our Care Model over time and help Cartwheel become the trusted mental health partner for schools nationwide—and the best workplace our colleagues have ever worked.

Role type: This is a W2, Full-Time, Salaried position

Location: Remote, with in-person team retreats in Boston 

Start date: February 2025

WHO YOU ARE

Must Have…

• 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!

Extra Credit…

• • 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

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• 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

WHY YOU’LL LOVE CARTWHEEL

Our hope is that Cartwheel will be your best career decision! In addition to tackling one of the biggest challenges of our time, at a company well-positioned to do so, you’ll have:

• 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

Cartwheel is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diverse backgrounds and perspectives and an inclusive work environment. We're committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, or veteran status.