Community-Based Therapist
About The Position
Nexus Family Healing has an exciting opportunity for a Community Based Therapist role supporting our Grand Forks, 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. 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. Nexus Family Healing is committed to ensuring clinicians are trained and supported, offering free licensure supervision, TF-CBT training, and other evidence-based modality training at no cost to the employee, to provide high-quality, evidence-based therapy services to children and families in North Dakota. The organization embraces diversity, promotes equity, and fosters inclusion.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or clinically related field
- Licensure within related clinical field (MSW, LAPC, or LPC) state board requirements
- Valid driver’s license required
- 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.
- Ability to pass all necessary background screening requirements per DHS rules and regulations
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
- Recognize and value cultural differences in all aspects of work and service delivery
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
- 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
- And much more!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
