Program Manager, Clinical Services
🌟 Program Manager – Clinical Services
Location: South Pasadena Clinic | IRL
Salary Range: $6283.33 – $8559.44/month*
*Final salary is based on experience, education, credentials, and bilingual language use (50%+ of role).
💼 Lead Clinical Excellence. Empower Teams. Change Lives.
At IRL, our Program Managers play a critical role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, client-centered clinical services. In this clinic-based leadership role, you’ll oversee daily operations, support interdisciplinary teams, and help drive meaningful outcomes for individuals of all abilities.
This is more than program oversight—it’s an opportunity to lead with purpose in a fast-paced, collaborative clinical environment.
🚀 What You’ll Do
As a Program Manager, you will:
- Provide program development, management, and oversight of high-risk cases
- Support clinical training and meeting DMH documentation standards
- Assist in putting together staff training, completing department manual, presentations, or in-service geared toward increasing departmental DMH compliance and Department’s efficient operation
- Maintain expertise in the subject matter by continuing research, study, and application
- Representing the Agency with a professional attitude and demeanor
- Travel to and attend training, meetings, and conferences within DMH’s areas
🌱 Why Join IRL?
We prioritize your growth, well-being, and success:
- Competitive total compensation package
- Merit-based annual raises
- Structured mentorship + high-quality clinical and leadership training
- Clear pathways for advancement—we promote from within
- Supportive and accessible leadership team
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- $25,000 life & AD&D insurance (if eligible)
- Generous paid time off:
- Up to 2 weeks vacation
- 13 paid holidays
- 5 paid sick days
- Retirement plan + flexible spending accounts
✅ What You’ll Bring
Minimum Qualifications:
- Fully Licensed LMFT, LCSW, or Psychologist with the State of California
- Experience working with children, youth, and adults with mental health disabilities
- 1 year management experience in administrative/ mental health environment
- Able to work on the computer for extended periods without visual or auditory impairments
- Qualifying Experience with learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and emotional disorders
- Successful experience in compliance monitoring of state, federal, and county regulations, as well as peer reviews regarding specific populations of Clients/Students served
- Proficiency in modern office technology and equipment, including Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & Teams), Adobe, Zoom, basic email, and Internet, and learn and adapt to new systems and software
- Access to reliable transportation and ability to travel to more than one site on any given day with auto insurance liability coverage which meets the minimum for work-related travel (25/50k liability)
- Availability between 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
- Must cover On Call LPS with high risk clients (after hours crisis response)
- Manager on Call (after hours)
- Valid TB test
- CPR & First Aid certification (training available)
- Ability to pass FBI & DOJ background check
- Experience WRAP and high risk cases
- Experience with Child and Family Teams meetings
💪 Physical & Role Expectations
- Ability to lift up to 40 pounds
- Ability to remain calm and solution-focused in high-stimulation or urgent situations
- Tolerance for typical clinical conditions (noise, activity levels, and occasional strong odors related to care routines)
- Ability to stand and move for extended periods throughout the day
✨ Ready to Lead in a Clinical Setting?
If you’re a driven leader passionate about clinical excellence and team development, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact every day.
Apply now and help us deliver care that transforms lives.
ABOUT IRL
The Institute for the Redesign of Learning (IRL) is a multi-service, community-based Special Education, mental health, job development, and training facility for special needs children, students, and adults. IRL began in 1974 when its founder, Nancy J. Lavelle, Ph.D., created the Almansor Education Center located in a church on Almansor Street in Alhambra, California. With the belief that every student has the ability to “take charge” of their own learning process, Dr. Lavelle established a unique environment and individualized curriculum and created appropriate support and enrichment services designed to turn student and client learning failures into learning successes. Now over forty years later, the Institute for the Redesign of Learning offers six programs designed to provide a continuum of care for individuals with Special Needs, ages infants through adults, serving children, students, and clients throughout the greater Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley communities.
The Institute for the Redesign of Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, handicap, national origin, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring, and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above-listed items.
