Mental Health Therapist
About The Position
Nexus Family Healing is hiring a Mental Health Therapist to support its Bismarck, North Dakota office. The therapist provides mental health services to youth in the child welfare system and to their foster care providers, biological families, and other natural supports. The role is part of a multidisciplinary wrap-around team that coordinates comprehensive support for clients. The position offers a hybrid, community- and home-based work arrangement in the Bismarck area, manageable caseloads, and scheduling flexibility based on client needs. Limited crisis on-call duties and regular business travel to family homes, community locations, and referral sites are required. Clinicians receive free licensure supervision, TF-CBT and other evidence-based modality training at no cost. The starting salary is $67,000 or more annually, or $64,000 or more for MSW candidates. A $2,500 sign-on bonus is paid periodically over the first year of employment.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or a clinically related field.
- Required licensure: LPC, LPCC, MSW, or LMFT.
- Successfully pass a DHS criminal background check.
- Valid driver’s license.
- 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
- Experience working with at-risk youth and families facing mental health or behavioral health challenges.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain a trauma-informed environment.
- Collaborate with youth, families, and the team to develop an Individual and Family Treatment Plan.
- Provide individualized, youth-focused, strength-based, evidence-based family and individual therapy to youth, their families, and foster families.
- Participate in treatment team meetings and coordinate quarterly child and family team meetings (CFTM).
- Participate in needed crisis responses.
- Coordinate and communicate client aftercare needs with families and relevant social service and community providers to support a smooth transition.
- Engage desired and necessary family members, educational, legal, community, and social service providers, and natural supports to gather information and support the treatment process.
- Produce and maintain accurate client reports, records, and documentation in a timely and professional manner, consistent with policy and regulated statutes.
- Recognize and value cultural differences in work and service delivery.
Benefits
- Free clinical supervision for clinical candidates seeking licensure.
- Advanced training opportunities in evidence-based modalities such as TF-CBT and EMDR.
- Four weeks of paid time off in the first year of employment.
- Additional paid holidays.
- 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.
- $2,500 sign-on bonus paid periodically over the first year of employment.
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Job Type
Full-time
