Community-Based Therapist Lead

Nexus Family Healing; Mendota Heights (MN); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Four weeks PTO

Health insurance options

No-cost life insurance

Short/long-term disability insurance

401k match

Talkspace Therapy Benefit

Hinge Health Benefit

Carrot Fertility Benefit

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Nexus Family Healing in Mendota Heights, MN seeks a Lead Therapist for the Youth ACT Program. This hybrid-remote, full-time role (40 hours/week) requires frequent in-person work with travel between sites.

Salary ranges from $75,000 to $82,000 per year, depending on licensure and experience, with a flexible Monday–Friday schedule. The Therapist Lead provides mentorship and clinical leadership, oversees assessments, treatment planning, and documentation, and drives quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in behavioral sciences or related field.
• Fully licensed in Minnesota as LICSW/LMFT/LPCC or hold provisional/intermediary license.
• Valid driver’s license; must pass DHS background check.
• Minimum 4 years adolescent counseling/clinical experience.
• Minimum 3 years as staff Therapist.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, mentorship, and clinical support to therapists and therapy interns.
• Facilitate clinical case consultations, risk management discussions, and problem-solving to support quality client care.
• Serve as a liaison between therapists and clinical leadership, ensuring clear communication of policies, initiatives, and best practices.
• Support therapist onboarding, training, licensure development, and ongoing professional growth.
• Deliver and coordinate training on clinical practices, documentation standards, compliance requirements, and therapeutic techniques.
• Provide oversight and guidance on assessments, treatment planning, service delivery, and clinical documentation.
• Ensure high-quality therapeutic services, appropriate staffing support, and adherence to regulatory and organizational standards.
• Serve as a clinical subject matter expert, promoting trauma-informed care and representing the organization through community outreach, education, and professional presentations.
• Collaborate with leadership to enhance clinical programs, improve outcomes, and support continuous quality improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Mentorship

Clinical supervision

Trauma-informed care

Collaboration

Education

Master’s degree in behavioral sciences

Minnesota licensure (LICSW/LMFT/LPCC)

Driver’s license

Job description

Description

Nexus Family Healing is excited to add a hybrid-remote Lead Therapist for our Youth ACT Program based out of Mendota Heights, MN!

Youth ACT is an intensive, comprehensive and community-based rehabilitative mental health service. Services are provided in the home, school, or community using a multidisciplinary team. Individualized services help stabilize youth, ages 14-21, to decrease hospitalizations and out of home placements. Services are provided in the home, with Youth ACT providing 3-5 sessions per week.

At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster 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.

Location, Schedule and Pay:

• Full-time, 40 hours per week
• Schedule: flexible Monday-Friday
• $75-82k per year, dependent on licensure and experience
• Hybrid-remote in Mendota Heights, MN
• This is a hybrid position requiring frequent in person, remote, and travel between sites

Nexus’ Comprehensive Benefits Include:

• Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
• 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!

Position Summary: The Therapist Lead will provide collaborative and supportive leadership, mentorship, and guidance to all therapists while building and maintaining clinical excellence. This role will communicate and integrate the greater therapeutic goals and objectives of Nexus Family Healing into the agency’s daily clinical and operational work with clients, while serving as a therapeutic subject matter expert. The Therapist Lead will assist in directing the daily workflow of therapists and overseeing the planning and execution of service delivery.

Primary responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, mentorship, and clinical support to therapists and therapy interns.
• Facilitate clinical case consultations, risk management discussions, and problem-solving to support quality client care.
• Serve as a liaison between therapists and clinical leadership, ensuring clear communication of policies, initiatives, and best practices.
• Support therapist onboarding, training, licensure development, and ongoing professional growth.
• Deliver and coordinate training on clinical practices, documentation standards, compliance requirements, and therapeutic techniques.
• Provide oversight and guidance on assessments, treatment planning, service delivery, and clinical documentation.
• Ensure high-quality therapeutic services, appropriate staffing support, and adherence to regulatory and organizational standards.
• Serve as a clinical subject matter expert, promoting trauma-informed care and representing the organization through community outreach, education, and professional presentations.
• Collaborate with leadership to enhance clinical programs, improve outcomes, and support continuous quality improvement.

Requirements

Required Education and Licensure:

• Master’s degree in one of the behavioral sciences, human services, social work, marriage & family therapy, psychology, counseling, or clinically related fields.
• Fully licensed in Minnesota as an LICSW, LMFT, or LPCC
• And/or currently holds a provisional/intermediary license for a specific track (i.e. LGSW, LAMFT or LPC)
• Valid driver’s license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Nexus Home Office driving requirements
• Must successfully pass a DHS background check
• Minimum of 4 years adolescent counseling and/or clinical experience required
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a staff Therapist

Preferred Education and Experience:

• LADC preferred
• Related residential or human services experience working with youth and families

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.

ICARE Values & Behavioral Competencies:

• 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.

When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!