Clinical Specialist
About The Position
Nexus Family Healing is hiring a Clinical Specialist for its youth and teen psychiatric residential treatment facility in East Bethel, Minnesota. The role provides clinical leadership, oversight, and day-to-day support in a therapeutic residential environment, ensuring effective treatment interventions, behavioral support strategies, safety planning, and evidence-based programming. Care is trauma-informed, relationship-based, and individualized. As a leader on the multidisciplinary treatment team, the Clinical Specialist coaches, mentors, and supervises direct care staff and therapists while supporting client safety, treatment progress, and program effectiveness. The position involves active engagement in the milieu and promotes high-quality service delivery, regulatory compliance, staff development, and continuous improvement. This is a full-time, salaried exempt, on-site position. Two schedules are available: Sunday–Wednesday, 1 p.m.–11 p.m., or Wednesday–Saturday, 1 p.m.–11 p.m. The starting salary range is $85,000–$95,000 annually.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Social Services, Psychology, or a clinically related field.
- Fully licensed in Minnesota as an LICSW, LPCC, or LMFT.
- At least 3 years of youth or adolescent counseling or clinical experience.
- Experience supervising or leading a team.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to meet state regulating agency and Nexus Home Office driving requirements.
- Successfully pass a DHS background check.
- Participate in, complete, and successfully pass agency-specific therapeutic intervention/restraint training and exam (TCI, HWC, or NCI).
- Ability to build strong relationships with diverse individuals or communities and understand their unique needs and challenges.
- Openness to meeting the cultural needs of individuals or communities, including considerations such as language, traditions, and values.
Nice To Haves
- Youth or adolescent residential experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in adolescent and family-based behavioral counseling.
- Clinical supervisory experience.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical leadership, supervision, coaching, and support to therapists, direct care staff, and clients in a residential treatment environment.
- Oversee treatment planning, therapeutic programming, behavioral interventions, and service delivery to ensure high-quality client care.
- Ensure implementation of trauma-informed, evidence-based practices and support ongoing program improvement initiatives.
- Provide guidance and oversight for client safety, risk management, crisis intervention, behavioral support plans, and safety planning.
- Review incidents, documentation, and clinical practices to support quality, regulatory compliance, and effective service delivery.
- Serve as the primary clinical resource for families, guardians, referral sources, and community partners, addressing questions, concerns, and treatment-related issues.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support treatment goals, coordinate care, and advocate for client needs.
- Lead staff development through clinical supervision, case consultation, mentoring, training, and performance coaching.
- Foster a culture of clinical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and trauma-informed care.
Benefits
- Five weeks of paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment.
- Multiple health insurance coverage options.
- No-cost life insurance.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- 401(k) match.
- Talkspace therapy benefit for the whole family.
- Hinge Health benefit for the whole family.
- Carrot Fertility benefit.
- Tuition assistance and training opportunities.
- Advancement pathways and internal promotion.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
