Mental Health Therapist

About the role

Nexus Family Healing is expanding to Eugene, Oregon, with the opening of a new 14-bed psychiatric residential treatment facility (PRTF) set to open this summer. This location is in partnership with the Oregon Health Authority Behavioral Health Division and will serve justice-involved youth ages 12 – 17 experiencing acute emotional concerns and serious and persistent mental illness.

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall management of youth’s treatment through active engagement, clinical assessment, treatment, and discharge planning.
• Provide clinical insight and work from a trauma-informed lens to enhance the milieu and programming.
• Engage with families through family therapy and treatment planning.
• Collaborate with the community and providers related to the youth’s progress and discharge planning.

Trauma Informed Care

• Help establish and maintain a positive treatment culture and environment.
• Work with youth and family to develop a Nexus Individual and Family Guidance Plan.
• Complete Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) functional assessment in accordance with TCOM principles.
• Through collaborative effort with family, youth, and providers, develop and monitor individual treatment plans.
• Provide individualized, youth-focused, strength- and evidence-based family and individual therapy models to youth and families (e.g., Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).

Milieu Coordination

• Develop and facilitate milieu and treatment groups that are trauma-informed, educational, and treatment-focused.
• Participate in all youth-related treatment team meetings, using family-centered language and youth-driven principles.
• Serve as a clinical treatment team leader to Youth Care Professionals, including modeling and coaching staff on rapport building with clients, trauma-informed practices, and de-escalation techniques on the treatment milieu as needed.
• Be available on-call for consultation/treatment direction and/or decisions when appropriate.
• Assess readiness for discharge in conjunction with the treatment team.

Community Care

• Coordinate/communicate aftercare needs of the client with family and all necessary social service and community providers to ensure a smooth transition.
• Communicate with the treatment team to include 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.
• Ensure 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.
• Educate and facilitate trainings for staff on trauma-informed practices, clinical diagnosis treatment processes, and other clinically relevant training material.
• Participate in team meetings, program clinical team meetings, therapy clinical supervision sessions, and in-service as required.
• Ensure confidentiality regarding mental health, medical issues, background treatment and comply with all HIPAA-related requirements.
• Remain current on all company policies, assigned trainings and/or certification requirements.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in one of the behavioral sciences, human services, social work, marriage & family therapy, psychology, counseling, or clinically related fields.
• If currently unlicensed, must be on track to complete licensure for a specific, related discipline.
• And/or currently holds a provisional/intermediary license for a specific track (e.g., LGSW, LMSW, LAMFT, or LPC).
• Some experience working in a residential or intensive inpatient or outpatient setting required.
• Valid driver’s license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Nexus Home Office driving requirements.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Fully licensed in Minnesota: LICSW, LPCC, LMFT.
• Related residential or human services experience working with youth and families.

Benefits

• 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.
• Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family.
• Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family.
• Carrot Fertility Benefit.
• Tuition assistance and training opportunities.
• Advancement pathways and internal promotion.

Pay

$80,000–$90,000 annually, dependent on licensure.