Young Child Family Therapist

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

Job summary

Compass Health Center seeks a Family Therapist to join their team in Chicago. The role involves conducting family sessions, supporting patients in crisis, and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure effective treatment. Ideal candidates will have a Master's degree or higher and experience in family therapy, particularly using CBT and DBT. The position offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision plans

401k program with company matching

Generous PTO including competitive parental leave

Continuous training through CEU seminars

Qualifications

• 1+ years clinical work experience post-Master’s strongly preferred.
• Knowledge and experience in family therapy required.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating family coaching sessions and providing guidance.
• Supporting patients in crisis and coordinating with the treatment team.
• Charting progress of patients in the electronic medical record.

Skills

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Education

Master's level therapist

PhD

PsyD

LCSW

LCPC

Job description

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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.

Our centrally located Chicago office is nestled in the vibrant neighborhood of North Center, not to mention the social events hosted on our fully furnished rooftop!

What You'll Do:

• Facilitating family coaching sessions to a caseload of assigned patients and their caregivers.
• Providing guidance and support to patients and family members to help promote goals and encourage patients progress through the program.
• Utilize tenets of Parent Management Training to guide family members to more effectively respond and support patients. Discussion topics and family therapy goals include creating home contracts, helping families implement them at home and offering psychoeducation.
• 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 and helping in the milieu 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.
• Supporting the Young Child program by facilitating pre-intake calls and completing intakes as needed.
• Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass.
  
  

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 descriptions can 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.

Benefits & Perks

We know that you will be dedicated to your purpose here. We look at that investment as a two-way street. 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!

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