Mental Health Therapist

For a Youth and Family Therapist who comes at difficult problems in new ways, Nexus-PATH has a unique opportunity to be part of a new, one-of-a-kind treatment foster care team!

Nexus-PATH seeks a Mental Health Therapist for our new model of Treatment Foster Care. TFC is a new opportunity to provide intensive support and treatment to youth, their families and their foster families. TFC provides intensive therapeutic services with the youth and their caregivers through a multi-disciplinary teamed approach. The Therapist provides high intensity, in-home and community-based services with a strong system’s focus to develop and support healing, stability and permanency.

Schedule/Pay:

• Flexible scheduling that meets the youth & family needs
• Some on-call rotation required
• Salary starting at $64,000+ for intermediary therapist level; $67,000+ for fully licensed therapist

Nexus’ Comprehensive Benefits Include:

• FREE Clinical supervision is provided to clinical candidates seeking licensure
• 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
• And much more!

Location:

• Hybrid remote (community and home-based) in the Bismarck, North Dakota area!

Travel:

• Regular business travel to family homes, community locations, and referral sites required

Primary 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

Qualifications:

• 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

Nice to have:

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

At Nexus Family Healing, our voices and actions are focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.

Our ICARE Values:

• Innovation: Leading the way and implementing creative, cutting-edge ideas and approaches
• Compassion: Listening, honoring differences, and showing respect, kindness, empathy care, and concern
• Agility: Exhibiting flexibility and adapting quickly
• Responsiveness: Being quick, positive, and accurate
• Excellence: Demonstrating quality results that surpass ordinary standards

APPLY TODAY TO BE CONTACTED BY OUR RECRUITING TEAM! When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!

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