Community-Based Therapist (CIBHS)

Lorenzclinic; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking clinic dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families affected by trauma. As a Community-Based Program Manager, you'll lead a passionate team of clinicians in providing evidence-based therapy and support. With a focus on relational and systems interventions, this role offers the chance to make a profound impact in underserved communities. Enjoy competitive compensation, a robust benefits package, and the opportunity for professional growth in a supportive environment. If you are committed to making a difference in mental health care, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Paid burnout time

Paid parenting leave

Annual CEU allowance

Employer-sponsored health insurance

401k with matching

Flexible schedule

Paid time off

Professional development assistance

Qualifications

• Master’s or doctoral degree in a mental health profession.
• Full, independent licensure as a mental health professional in Minnesota.
• Board-approved licensure supervisor status.

Responsibilities

• Manage community-based intensive programs including CTSS & CIBHS.
• Recruit and supervise in-home treatment staff.
• Conduct diagnostic assessments and treatment planning.

Skills

Community-based mental health services

Clinical supervision

Psychotherapy

Diagnostic assessments

Treatment planning

Child therapy

Family therapy

Education

Master’s degree in mental health

Doctoral degree in mental health

Job description

Description

Are you passionate about supporting children and families who have experienced trauma? Are you an experienced in-home clinician and board-approved supervisor who knows that "meeting clients where they're at" means more than just talking about it? Are you a relational and/or systems interventionist who knows the power of early intervention to transform lives? Consider joining, leading, and growing our team of passionate community-based (in-home) clinicians where we employ evidence-based child- and family-therapy models to help children heal and grow beyond trauma. In this unique role, you'll work with a multidisciplinary team to expand compassionate, therapeutic care to children navigating the impacts of trauma. If you're ready to make a lasting difference in the lives of children during their most critical developmental years, we invite you to be a part of our mission!

About the Clinic

As a clinic, we are committed to providing a multi-site, multi-service approach that places our clinicians and clients at the center of the work we do. We are lifelong learners, we are listeners, and we are committed to ensuring our organization is an active part of creating safe spaces for people from all walks of life. We believe that providing clinicians with a secure base, competitive compensation, flexibility, operational support, and additional benefits is key to our mission of providing quality mental healthcare to those that need it.

Lorenz Clinic has chosen excellence in psychological services and training rather than unrestrained growth to the detriment of quality like larger clinics. Our duty to the public is our North Star, leading us to select the most reflective, well-prepared, professional staff because that’s what drives psychotherapeutic change and the best training. Lorenz Clinic has led on the basis of excellence since its inception, distinguished by its clinically-relevant core values. The clinic’s superordinate value is that of interprofessionalism, and it engages in Reflective Practice, which ensures our workplace is conducive to the work itself.

For nearly fifteen years, Lorenz has leveraged an interdisciplinary team to expand access to integrated services on main street where they’re needed most. To that end, the clinic is undertaking the first steps in developing a chemical dependency program, which will provide community-based care to clients on both an outpatient and intensive outpatient basis across the system’s disparate clinics. Lorenz’s current service offering includes outpatient psychotherapy, psychiatry, in-home therapy, psychological testing, intensive outpatient groups and day treatment. The need for community-based chemical dependency treatment has never been greater, especially a program embedded in an integrated system with access to the range of mental health services.

Lorenz Clinic is known for its distinctive approach to child and family psychology that integrates developmental, systemic, experiential and trauma-informed models. While the majority of our services are provided under the umbrella of managed care, we have community partnerships that allow us to service those without insurance.

The Department

It's been said that "the vast majority of psychological problems are due to injuries that were relational in nature. So too should the therapy be relational in nature." The founding vision for the community-based service line is to literally meet children and families where they're at and to treat problems, not just symptoms. The historical focus on problems as though they are inside of children has only served to increase stigma, decrease treatment efficacy, and ultimately exacerbate the mental health crisis. If treatment teams can’t meet and view children in context of their systems, lasting change isn't likely.

Working alongside psychiatry providers, family therapists, and psychologists with access to testing and higher levels of care, community-based specialists treat clients who are being held by a clinic system and interprofessional treatment team.

Position Overview

Under general direction, the Community-Based Program Manager (or "Clinical Manager"; CM) manages and oversees community-based intensive programs including Children's Therapeutic Support Services (CTSS) & Children's Intensive Behavioral Health Services (CIBHS). Clinical Managers are accountable for supporting their staff and maintaining acceptable professional and ethical standards of the facility’s clinical staff according to the leadership team’s clinical vision. The CM also serves in a consultative role to staff mental health professionals and clinical trainees. They participate in strategic planning and committee activities as assigned. The CM also monitors provider activity and manage for program reach, service utilization, clinical effectiveness, and productivity.

Clinical Managers assists the Director in managing the program so that it follows all related local, state, federal and accrediting-body rules and regulations. CMs assist the Director in coordinating and managing patient care in the facility according to adopted policies/procedures, state and federal regulations, and accepted accreditation standards. CMs also serve as liaison between the clinical staff in their program and the Director.

This position is a unique opportunity to take an innovative program from 'one to two.' The manager will be charged with, among other things, further developing, documenting, and proposing the program’s operating model including policies and procedures, recruiting and retaining a specialty staff, maintaining CTSS & CIBHS facility certification, and eventually expanding program reach across five clinics in a financially sustainable manner. There is significant potential for career growth. It will be a difficult and arduous but noble path, culminating in nothing short of expanding access in a profound way that will have a deep impact in traditionally underserved communities. The most successful candidates will likely be experienced program leaders with an uncommon level of community-based competence– someone with experience operating within small, scrappy, entrepreneurial environments.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Developing, proposing, and documenting a cogent program operating model, including policies and procedures germane to a CTSS and CIBHS program
• Recruiting, supervising, and functionally supporting in-home treatment staff
• The provision of psychological services including conducting diagnostic assessments, treatment planning, psychotherapy, psychological testing, and discharge planning for patients of the clinic who are experiencing mental health issues
• Carrying client caseload as assigned
• Ensuring the financial sustainability and prosperity of the program
• Attending and participating in monthly case consultation, Grand Rounds, business meetings, and other meetings as required
• Compliance with clinic documentation standards, relevant statutes, licensing board rules, and codes of ethics

Ideal Candidates

• In addition to the qualifications, knowledge, and skills listed below, ideal candidates for this position will also exemplify the following essential attributes for success:
• A highly knowledgeable mental health clinician who keeps up with terminology and current developments and trends in the behavioral health system of care and who has achieved sufficient clinical knowledge and skill in the operations and services of a behavioral health care clinic/program which provides behavioral health services
• A supportive manager capable of instructing, focusing, guiding, and inspiring others in accomplishing performance and work goals and objectives of behavioral health clinic/program operations and services
• Someone capable of identifying and understanding how external issues (e.g., economic, political, social and health care trends) impact the work of behavioral health care services and who is able to motivate and inspire others by providing leadership and setting a sense of purpose for the Clinic and its programs
• A competent decision maker capable of solving problems and taking appropriate action which is consistent with all available facts, constraints, and probable consequences in a fast paced, multidisciplinary environment by identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities, and comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions
• A collaborative spirit eager to actively participate as a member of a team contributing successfully to the completion of goals and objectives aligned with the mission, vision and values of the Clinic’s system of care
• An effective communicator who conveys information and in a manner that meets audience needs; someone able to develop and maintain effective relationships with others and who relates well to people from varied backgrounds and in different situations
• Someone who possesses an air of confidence and creates a good first impression by professionally commanding attention and earning the trust and respect of others
• An effective manager of home-based clinicians and day-treatment services
• A knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced clinical leader, skilled in the application of evidence based treatments

Requirements

Job Requirements

The most successful candidates will evidence a track record of service as an interventionist with a high degree of professional activity within the field. The position qualifications include but are not limited to:

• A master’s or doctoral degree in a mental health profession from an accredited academic program
• Full, independent, unrestricted licensure as a mental health professional in Minnesota (LP, LMFT, LICSW, or LPCC)
• Board-approved licensure supervisor status in at least one of the following fields: psychology, social work, family therapy, or professional counseling
• At least three or more years of experience providing community-based mental health services to children
• At least 2 years providing clinical supervision
• Formal training in child, couples, or family therapy
• Previous CIBHS program direction experience (strongly preferred)

Benefits

This position may be eligible for student loan repayment. Full-time, independently licensed clinicians enjoy a robust benefits package that includes paid burnout time, twelve weeks of paid parenting leave regardless of gender, and an annual CEU allowance. Employer-sponsored health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability insurance are also available. A 401k with 401k matching is available. Paid time off, paid holidays, paid service/volunteer time, paid continuing education hours, paid parental leave, an employee assistance program, a flexible schedule, and professional development assistance in the way of an annual continuing education allowance round out the offering. Did we mention student loan repayment, paid burnout time, and paid parenting leave?!

As an active training clinic, most clinicians at Lorenz earn about 100 hours per year of board-approved continuing education just from showing up to work. The clinic hosts an annual conference, monthly grand rounds, and four hours per month of case consultation with a specialist.

Above all, adding Lorenz Clinic to your resume is a distinctive badge of professionalism and quality recognized the field over. For the past decade and a half, Lorenz has been known as the psychotherapist’s clinic– one of the few practices many clinicians would entrust with their career or in many cases, their own family.

Individual & Cultural Diversity

Lorenz Clinic is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Compensation

The hiring range for this position is $85,000 - $120,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications. The hiring range for master’s level clinicians is $85,000 - $100,000, while the hiring range for doctoral-level licensed psychologists is $110,000 - $120,000. A bonus structure may be implemented with program development and reach. For an unabridged job description or more information about our benefits including student loan repayment, please contact human resources.

To Apply

To apply for this role, submit your resume and cover letter to the attention of the selection committee through the clinic’s online job board. Cover letters should minimally address candidates’ program development and/or leadership experience, experience working in scrappy or resource-constrained human services environments, dedication to working for the underserved, and overall fit with the position. Because this is a leadership position, candidates who submit a cover letter and can commit to leading through in-person service to clients and colleagues will be given preference.