Community-Based Therapist

Nexus Family Healing•Minot, ND

2d•$64,000 - $67,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Nexus Family Healing has an exciting opportunity for a Community Based Therapist role supporting our Minot, ND office! This position will provide mental health therapy services to youth within the child welfare system as well as their foster care providers, biological families or other natural supports. We are looking for an energetic, compassionate therapist to support the unique needs of children and families. The Community Based Therapist works as part of a multi-disciplinary wrap-around team in order to provide the most comprehensive and full-service support to clients. At Nexus Family Healing, clinicians are supported with free licensure supervision, TF-CBT training and other evidence-based modality training at no cost to the employee. Our commitment is to ensuring clinicians are trained and supported in order to offer high-quality, evidence-based therapy services to children and families in North Dakota. “At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity.”

Requirements

Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or clinically related field
Licensure preferred or on track with licensure within related clinical field (LMSW, LAPC, LAMFT, LCSW, LICSW, LPC or LMFT) per state board requirements
Valid driver’s license required
Must successfully pass a DHS/DCFS/CJIS/DHHS/ODHS or other federal and state criminal background check
Must have the ability to build strong relationships with diverse individuals or communities and understand their unique needs and challenges
Must be open to meeting the cultural needs of individuals or communities, considering factors such as language, traditions, and values.
Must be able to assist staff in physical interventions and restraints of clients
Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds unassisted and up to 100 pounds with assistance
Must be able to stand and walk for extended periods of time (2-4 hours)
Must be able to twist, bend and stretch in a manner conducive to the execution of daily activities within a residential treatment facility
All client-facing Nexus employees must successfully participate and complete a Handle With Care behavior intervention method exam and training

Nice To Haves

Experience working with at-risk youth and families facing mental health or behavioral health challenges
Full independent clinical licensure: LPCC, LCSW, LMFT

Responsibilities

Creates and drives a trauma-informed environment
Collaboration with youth and family and team to develop an Individual and Family Treatment Plan
Provide individualized, youth-focused, strength and evidenced-based family and individual therapy models with youth, their families and foster families.
Participate in all treatment team meetings and coordinate quarterly CFTM (child and family team meetings)
Participate in needed crisis responses
Coordinate/communicate aftercare needs of the client with family and all necessary social service and community providers to ensure a smooth transition
Work with team member of the treatment team to engage all desired and necessary family members, educational, legal, community, and social service providers (as well as all-natural supports that the youth and family identify) to gather all necessary information to inform and support the treatment process
Ensures that all required client reports, records, and all documentation are produced accurately and maintained in a consistent, timely, and professional manner according to policy and regulated statutes

Benefits

FREE Clinical supervision is provided to clinical candidates seeking licensure
Advanced training opportunities in evidenced-based modalities such as TF-CBT, EMDR etc.
Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
Additional paid holidays
Multiple options for health insurance coverage
No-cost life insurance
Short/long-term disability insurance
401k match
NEW - Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
NEW - Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
NEW – Carrot Fertility Benefit
Tuition assistance and training opportunities
Advancement pathways and internal promotion