Mental Health Therapist, Nexus Family Healing, Baltimore, MD
Nexus Family Healing -
Baltimore, MD,
US
Mental Health Therapist
Date Posted: 2024-06-15
Job description
Nexus-Woodbourne is seeking a Master's Level Mental Health Therapist that is well-versed with Trauma Informed Practices and Clinical Diagnosis Treatment Processes.
***New starting Salary of $70K***
Nexus' Comprehensive Benefits Include:
Position Summary:
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.
Primary responsibilities:
Trauma Informed Care
Milieu Coordination
Community Care
Required Education and Licensure:
Preferred Education and Experience:
ICARE Values & Behavioral Competencies:
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion:
At Nexus Family Healing, our voices and actions will be focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.
APPLY TODAY TO BE CONTACTED TODAY BY OUR RECRUITING TEAM! When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to changes lives - including your own.
Keywords: "Mental Health Therapist", "Therapist", "Mental Health", "Social Work", "Psychology", "LGSW", "LCSW", "LICSW", "LP", "LMFT", "Trauma Informed", "Clinical", "Clinical Treatment", "Clinical Diagnosis", "#LI-Onsite"
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
***New starting Salary of $70K***
Nexus' Comprehensive Benefits Include:
- Guaranteed salary, schedule, PTO, and health benefits!
- Guaranteed case load and positive impact on youth who need us the most
- Therapist Flexible Scheduling - based on client & family needs
- Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
- Additional 8 Floating Holidays
- Comprehensive clinical and inter-department support - you don't have to do everything yourself!
- 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!
Position Summary:
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.
Primary responsibilities:
Trauma Informed Care
- In coordination with the team, creates and drives a trauma-informed environment; establishing and maintaining a positive treatment culture and making necessary changes to ensure success.
- Collaboration with youth and family to lead and develop to the Nexus Individual and Family Guidance Plans; ensuring staff understand and utilize them in adherence to policy.
- Engage in and have active involvement of the Family Collaborative Intake meetings.
- Complete Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths functional assessment in accordance to the 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 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 principals.
- Serve as a clinical treatment team leader to YCP's. 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.
- Be available on-call for consultation/treatment direction and/or decisions when appropriate.
- Assess readiness for discharge in conjunction with the treatment team. Coordinate and recommend therapeutic services for success after discharge.
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.
Required Education and Licensure:
- Master's degree in social work, psychology, or clinically related field. Must be licensed in related clinical field (LGSW, LCSW, LICSW, LP or LMFT) per state board requirements.
- Maryland-LCSW, LCSW-C, LPC, LCPC, or LGSW or equivalent state designation for a master's level clinically related field are required.
- Valid driver's license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Home Office driving requirements
Preferred Education and Experience:
- Experience working in the Human Services field.
ICARE Values & Behavioral Competencies:
- 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, our voices and actions will be focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.
APPLY TODAY TO BE CONTACTED TODAY BY OUR RECRUITING TEAM! When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to changes lives - including your own.
Keywords: "Mental Health Therapist", "Therapist", "Mental Health", "Social Work", "Psychology", "LGSW", "LCSW", "LICSW", "LP", "LMFT", "Trauma Informed", "Clinical", "Clinical Treatment", "Clinical Diagnosis", "#LI-Onsite"
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)