🧠 School-Based Mental Health Clinician

Hybrid | Fee-for-Service | Baltimore County, Maryland

📍 Location: Maryland (Baltimore County) — School-Based, Hybrid

🎓 License Requirements: Active Maryland license required

💰 Compensation: Fee-for-Service W-2 + Monthly Bonus Potential

💙 Bring Mental Health Care Where Kids Need It Most

Backpack Healthcare is bringing behavioral healthcare directly into Maryland schools—and we're looking for clinicians who want to make a meaningful difference where it matters most.

This is more than a therapy role. You'll have the opportunity to build relationships with students, families, educators, and school teams while providing accessible, trauma-informed mental health care both in person and through telehealth.

As a clinician-led, minority-owned organization, we believe when clinicians thrive, kids thrive.

If you're looking for a role that combines purpose, flexibility, competitive compensation, and real community impact, we'd love to have you join us.

💰 Compensation + Monthly Bonus Potential

This is a Fee-for-Service W-2 position designed to provide competitive earning opportunities while maintaining flexibility.

Your Compensation

💵 $65 per session hour — fully licensed clinicians

💵 $45 per session hour — provisionally licensed clinicians

💵 $30 per hour — administrative time

💰 Monthly bonus potential — eligible clinicians can earn additional monthly incentive compensation based on applicable clinical and performance metrics

Additional Benefits

🏥 Medical, dental & vision insurance

💼 401(k) with company match

🌴 Paid holidays & PTO

📚 CEU reimbursement

🎓 Clinical supervision for eligible pre-licensed clinicians

📈 Professional growth and advancement opportunities

🤝 Supportive clinical and operational team

⏰ The Schedule

This is a hybrid role designed to combine the connection of in-person school-based care with the flexibility of telehealth.

🏫 Minimum 3 in-person school days per week
⏰ 8 hours per in-person school day
💻 Telehealth days available to support flexibility and continuity of care
🎒 Telehealth allows continued care during school breaks and closures

You'll have the opportunity to build meaningful relationships with students while maintaining flexibility throughout the school year.

🌟 What You'll Do

As a School-Based Mental Health Clinician, you'll provide individual, group, and/or family therapy to students both at assigned school sites and through Backpack's secure telehealth platform.

Your day-to-day will include:

🩺 Conducting intake evaluations and risk assessments

📝 Developing individualized, trauma-informed treatment plans

💙 Providing individual, group, and family therapy

🏫 Maintaining a consistent in-person schedule at assigned school site(s)

💻 Providing telehealth services to maintain continuity of care

📋 Completing accurate, timely clinical documentation in Backpack's EHR

🤝 Collaborating with school staff, pediatricians, families, and Backpack's interdisciplinary clinical team

🚨 Supporting school teams with behavioral health challenges and crisis response

🎓 Conducting wellness workshops for caregivers, educators, and administrators

👥 Participating in individual and group supervision if pre-licensed

✅ What We're Looking For

We're seeking clinicians who bring both clinical expertise and a genuine passion for helping young people.

Required

🎓 Master's degree in Counseling, Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, or a related field
📜 Active Maryland license: LCSW-C, LMSW, LCPC, LGPC, LCMFT
👧 Minimum 1 year of experience providing therapy to children and adolescents
🧠 Familiarity with trauma-informed care and school-based systems
🌎 Commitment to culturally responsive care
📝 Strong interpersonal, organizational, and clinical documentation skills
💙 Passion for increasing access to mental healthcare for underserved youth

🎒 Who We Are

We all walk around with an invisible backpack.

It carries our emotional experiences, traumas, stress, and unresolved feelings. Just like a physical backpack, it can become heavy when filled with too many things.