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About the Role

Nexus Family Healing - Austin Campus is seeking a Therapist to join their youth residential program. The role involves managing youth treatment through assessment, therapy, and discharge planning, utilizing a trauma-informed approach to enhance the program environment. The therapist will also engage with families, collaborate with community providers, and contribute to a positive treatment culture.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall management of youth’s treatment through active engagement, clinical assessment, treatment, and discharge planning.
• Provide clinical insight and work from a trauma informed lens to enhance the milieu and programming.
• Engage with families through family therapy and treatment planning.
• Collaborate with the community and providers related to the youth’s progress and discharge planning.
• Helps establish and maintain a positive treatment culture & environment.
• Works with youth & family to develop a Nexus Individual and Family Guidance Plan.
• Active involvement with Family Collaborative Intake meetings.
• Completes Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) functional assessment in accordance to TCOM (collaborative) principals.
• Through the collaborative effort with family, youth, and providers, develop and monitor the individual treatment plans.
• Provide individualized, youth-focused, strength and evidenced-based family and individual therapy models to youth and families.
• Develop and facilitate milieu and treatment groups that are trauma informed, educational, and treatment focused.
• Participate in all youth related treatment team meetings, using family centered language and youth driven principals.
• Serve as a clinical treatment team leader to YCP's, modeling and coaching staff on rapport building, trauma-informed practices, and de-escalation techniques.
• Be available on-call for consultation/treatment direction and/or decisions when appropriate.
• Assess readiness for discharge in conjunction with the treatment team.
• Coordinate/communicate aftercare needs of the client with family and all necessary social service and community providers to ensure a smooth transition.
• Communicate with the treatment team to include all desired and necessary family members, educational, legal, community, and social service providers.
• Ensures that all required client reports, records, and all documentation are produced accurately and maintained in a consistent, timely, and professional manner.
• Educate and facilitate trainings for staff on trauma informed practices, clinical diagnosis treatment processes, and other clinically relevant training material.
• Participate in team meetings, program clinical team meetings, therapy clinical supervision sessions, and in-service as required.
• Ensure confidentiality regarding mental health, medical issues, background treatment and comply with all HIPAA related requirements.
• Remains current on all company policies, assigned trainings and/or certification requirements.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or clinically related field.
• Must be licensed or on-track for licensure in related clinical field LICSW, LPCC, or LMFT per state board requirements.
• Valid driver’s license required.
• Must meet state regulating agency and Nexus Home Office driving requirements.
• 21 years of age.
• Must successfully pass a MN DHS 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 successfully compete Handle with Care training and exam.
• Experience working in the Human Services field.

Skills

• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Location

• Austin, MN

Work Type

• Full-time
• Onsite

Experience Level

• Experience reflecting level of experience and licensure

Education Level

• Master's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $70,090 - $73,601 annually

Benefits

• Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
• Additional 8 Paid Holidays
• Competitive Annual Base Salary Offered
• Multiple options for health insurance coverage
• Vision & Dental
• 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

About the Company

• Nexus Family Healing is a national nonprofit network of mental health agencies with over 50 years of experience serving children and families.
• Nexus Family Healing embraces diversity, promotes equity, and fosters 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.
• Our ICARE Values: Innovation, Compassion, Agility, Responsiveness, Excellence.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.