Community-Based Therapist

Nexus Family Healing has an exciting opportunity for a Community Based Therapist role supporting our Grand Forks, ND office!

This position will provide mental health therapy services to youth within the child welfare system as well as their foster care providers, biological families or other natural supports. We are looking for an energetic, compassionate therapist to support the unique needs of children and families.

The Community Based Therapist works as part of a multi-disciplinary wrap-around team in order to provide the most comprehensive and full-service support to clients.

At Nexus Family Healing, clinicians are supported with free licensure supervision, TF-CBT training and other evidence-based modality training at no cost to the employee. Our commitment is to ensuring clinicians are trained and supported in order to offer high-quality, evidence-based therapy services to children and families in North Dakota.

“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.”

Schedule/Pay/Location

• Starting salary at $67,000+
• Hybrid remote (community and home-based) in the Grand Forks, North Dakota area!
• Manageable caseload sizes
• Flexibility in scheduling based upon client needs
• Limited crisis on-call required

Nexus’ Comprehensive Benefits Include

• FREE Clinical supervision is provided to clinical candidates seeking licensure
• Advanced training opportunities in evidenced-based modalities such as TF-CBT, EMDR etc. Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
• Additional paid holidays
• 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!

Primary Responsibilities

• Creates and drives a trauma-informed environment
• Collaboration with youth and family and team to develop an Individual and Family Treatment Plan
• Provide individualized, youth-focused, strength and evidenced-based family and individual therapy models with youth, their families and foster families.
• Participate in all treatment team meetings and coordinate quarterly CFTM (child and family team meetings)

Participate in Needed Crisis Responses

Coordinate/communicate aftercare needs of the client with family and all necessary social service and community providers to ensure a smooth transition

Work with team member of the treatment team to engage all desired and necessary family members, educational, legal, community, and social service providers (as well as all-natural supports that the youth and family identify) to gather all necessary information to inform and support the treatment process

Ensures that all required client reports, records, and all documentation are produced accurately and maintained in a consistent, timely, and professional manner according to policy and regulated statutes

Recognize and value cultural differences in all aspects of work and service delivery

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or clinically related field
• Licensure within related clinical field (MSW, LMFT, or LPC) state board requirements

Valid Driver’s License Required

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.

Ability to pass all necessary background screening requirements per DHS rules and regulations

Nice to Have

• Experience working with at-risk youth and families facing mental health or behavioral health challenges
• Full independent clinical licensure: LPCC or LCSW

Travel: Regular business travel to family homes, community locations, and referral sites required

Our ICARE Values

• 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

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: At Nexus Family Healing, we not only support diversity – we celebrate it and rely on it for the betterment of our employees, our services, and our impact on the community. We strive to provide the best quality care for our youth and the best work environment for our employees through an inclusive team culture. Nexus Family Healing is proud to be an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

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