Eating Disorders & Over 18 Family Therapist

Compass Health Center, Llc; Northbrook (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

401k with company match

PTO

CEU seminars

Volunteering opportunities

Job summary

Compass Health Center in Northbrook, IL seeks an Eating Disorders & Over 18 Family Therapist to work within PHP/IOP programs. The role focuses on family sessions, psychoeducation, crisis support, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team.

Candidates should have a Master’s level therapy credential, CBT/DBT experience, and a background in crisis intervention. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package and growth opportunities in a leading crisis-level mental health provider.

Qualifications

• Must be a Psychologist or Master’s level therapist.
• Licensed options: PhD, PsyD, LCSW, or LCPC (preferred).
• 1+ years clinical work experience post-Master’s.
• Experience with CBT and DBT in family therapy context.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate family sessions for young adult and adult patients and their families.
• Provide psychoeducation to families and patients.
• Coordinate with treatment team and attend rounds.
• Participate in program meetings and projects for Compass growth.
• Supervise unlicensed clinicians and work across programs as needed.

Skills

CBT

DBT

Crisis experience

Family therapy

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Master's degree in psychology/therapy

Tools

EMR systems

Telehealth platforms

Job description

Eating Disorders & Over 18 Family Therapist

Weekly outpatient therapy isn't always enough, and a trip to the ER isn't the only answer. Patients and their families rely on CompassHealth Center whenincrisis – every day, wehelp people overcome depression, anxiety, suicidality, obsessions/compulsions, trauma, chronic pain, and other obstacles in order for our patients to live freely.

About This Role

Our Family Therapists play a key role in our multi-disciplinary teams and work to ensure synergy across treatment. As a Family Therapist, you’ll conduct family sessions with patients and their loved ones that will aim at providing support, offering education, and promoting collaboration. If your passion is helping those who are working to support our patients, you would be a great addition to our team. The Family Therapist in this role will work within all of the 18+ PHP/IOP Programs, with an increased focused on the Eating Disorder Program when it launches

Our location in Northbrook is our first and largest facility, and consists not only of our widest variety of programs, but also serves as a pilot site for many of our new treatment offerings.

Schedule: This role is 5 days per week, Monday through Friday.

What You'll Do:

• Facilitating family sessions to a caseload of assigned young adult and adult patients and their loved ones
• Providing guidance and support to patients and family members to help promote goals and encourage patients progress through the program.
• Providing direction to families about effective ways of supporting patients. Discussion topics and family therapy goals include safety plans, incorporating skill implementation, improving communication, creating contracts.
• Providing loved ones with psychoeducation about substance use and various other Axis 1 and 2 disorder symptoms
• Provides couples’ therapy for patients and their partners
• Works with various presenting issues including depression, anxiety, psychosis, substance abuse, PTSD, Axis 2 Disorder, Bipolar, etc.
• Assisting in supporting families through phone coaching and follow-up calls.
• Supporting patients in crisis.
• Coordinating with the treatment team. This involves attending rounds and other program meetings regularly as well as using the electronic systems of communication.
• Communicating with outside providers conducting family therapy for continuity of care.
• Collaborating with the treatment team in assessing the patient’s progress and need for higher level of care, stepdown, or discharge.
• Helping the family to coordinate an effective discharge plan.
• Providing individual support to patients as needed.
• Contributing clinical observations and insights during interdisciplinary meetings.
• Charting progress of patients appropriately in the electronic medical record.
• Participating in program meetings as needed.
• Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass.
• Participating in a weekly family therapy meeting
• Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass
• Opportunities to supervise unlicensed clinicians and work across different programs as needed (e.g., Young Adult, OCD, Trauma, Mental Health Pain and Illness)
• Participation in monthly 1-hour family support group
• Provide group therapy, as needed
• Other duties, as assigned

Who You Are:

• Are a Psychologist or Master’s level therapist (required)
• Hold one of the following licenses: PhD, PsyD, LCSW, or LCPC (preferred)
• 1+ years clinical work experience post-Master’s (strongly preferred)
• Have knowledge and experience utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), as well as other evidenced-based therapies, ideally in the context of delivering family therapy
• Have experience with patients in crisis, ideally prior experience working in partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, inpatient hospital, or residential setting

We are committed to a fair and equitable work environment. The expected compensation range for this role is below. This range includes multiple career path levels across the organization; where you fall in the range is dependent upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, your years of experience, type of experience, location, and education/certifications. Compass reserves the right to update these ranges.

Compensation

$55,000 - $90,000 USD

We know job descriptionscan be intimidating, so if this sounds like an opportunity for you, please don't hesitate to apply!

Who We Are

Compass Health Center is a recognized leader in crisis-level mental health, bringing passion, connection, and patient-centered care to the PartialHospitalizationand Intensive Outpatient space (PHP/IOP). Based in Chicagoland, we serve hundreds of patients every day, ranging from ages 5 through adulthood, in our onsite facilities or through our flourishing virtual programming.Compass fills a critical gap between outpatient and inpatient care through an intermediate level of Behavioral Healthcare.

A few more things we want you to know: our values are super important to us, and hopefully will be to you, too. Cultural humility, teamwork, continuous improvement, connection, patient centered care, passion, innovation, and agility should be your power sources. Joining Compass is an opportunity to feel fulfilled through a joint mission towards healing our communities.

We know that you will be dedicated to your purpose here. We are proud to offer plenty of space for growth, and opportunities to pursue continuous development within our organization.

For eligible positions, our other benefits include: comprehensive medical/dental/vision plans, 401k program with company matching, generous PTO (including competitive parental leave after 1 year of employment), and continuous training through CEU seminars and volunteering opportunities.

What’s Next?

Compass is committed to cultivating diverse and dynamic teams who exude passion for their craft, so whether or not you check all the boxes, we encourage you to apply – we’d be grateful to hear from you!

Due to ethical, legal, and clinical reasons to protect the confidentiality of our patients and to protect against any potential conflicts of interests, Compass Health Center is only able to hire former patients, or immediate family members of current/former patients under certain conditions. If you are a former Compass patient, we are only able to consider applicants who have received treatment at Compass at least 3 years ago and are applying to a different location from where they received care. Immediate family members of current or former patients may also apply to a different location than where their family member received care, regardless of the amount of time that has passed since their treatment.

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As set forth in Compass Health Center’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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