Adult Mental Health Therapist

Nexus-Gerard is looking to add a Mental Health Therapist to join our youth residential program!

Nexus Family Healing is a national nonprofit network of mental health agencies with over 50 years of restoring hope for thousands of children and families through outpatient / community mental health services, foster care, adoption, and residential treatment.

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.

Full-time, mostly weekdays : Monday - Friday

Additional 8 Paid Holidays

~ Multiple options for health insurance coverage

~ Vision & Dental

~ No-cost life insurance, short / long-term disability insurance

~NEW - Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family

~ NEW - Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family

~ Tuition assistance and training opportunities

~ Provide overall management of youth’s treatment through active engagement, clinical assessment, treatment, and discharge planning. Therapist will 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. Helps establish and maintain a positive treatment culture & environment

Works with youth & family to develop a Nexus Individual and Family Guidance Plan

Completes Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) functional assessment in accordance to TCOM (collaborative) principals

Through the collaborative effort with family, youth, and providers, develop and monitor the individual treatment plans

Provide individualized, youth-focused, strength and evidenced-based family and individual therapy models to youth and families. Examples : Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization (TF-CBT) and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Participate in all youth related treatment team meetings, using family centered language and youth driven principals

Serve as a clinical treatment team leader to YCPs. This includes but is not limited to modeling and coaching staff on rapport building with clients, trauma-informed practices, and de-escalation techniques on the treatment milieu as needed

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

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

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

Remains current on all company policies, assigned trainings and / or certification requirements

Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or clinically related field

~ Must be licensed in related clinical field LICSW, LPCC, or LMFT per state board requirements

~ Must meet state regulating agency and Nexus Home Office driving requirements

~Experience working in the Human Services field

Innovation : Leading the way and implementing creative, cutting-edge ideas and approaches

Demonstrating quality results that surpass ordinary standards

Keywords : “Mental Health”, “Counselor”, “Mental health Practitioner”, “Mental Health Professional”, “Mental Health Counselor”, “Mental Health Therapist”, “Children’s Mental Health” , “Adult Mental Health”, “ARMHS”, “LGSW”, “Social Work”, “LICSW”, “LPCC”, “Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor”, “LMFT”, “Family Therapy”, “Licensed Professional Counselor”, “Therapist”, “Clinical Services” , “Social Services”, “Counseling”, “ Therapist Mental Health”, “LPC”, “Human Services