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Virtual Adult Family Therapist

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Mid-level (2-5 years)

Work from:

United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Two years post master's family therapy experience preferred, LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, PsyD, PhD or Associate licensure required, Core skills in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Comfort with technologies like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, Organizational skills to manage schedule and tasks.

Key responsabilities:

Facilitate family sessions via Zoom.
Provide support and education to patients and families.
Coordinate with treatment team and communicate with outside providers.
Contribute insights during interdisciplinary meetings.
Participate in program improvement projects.

Compass Health Center SME https://compasshealthcenter.net/

501 - 1000 Employees

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Job description

Weekly outpatient therapy isn't always enough, and a trip to the ER isn't the only answer. Patients and their families rely on Compass Health Center when in crisis – every day, we help people overcome depression, anxiety, suicidality, obsessions/compulsions, trauma, chronic pain, and other obstacles in order for our patients to live freely.

About This Role

Compass Health Center has an Virtual Adult Family Therapist opening focused in our Virtual Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs.

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.

Compass is proud to be a trailblazer within the future of behavioral health, offering fully virtual PHP/IOP programs to patients across the entire state of Illinois. Our virtual programs meet the needs of modern healthcare, providing flexibility for both patients and clinicians while increasing access to fundamental care. The hours for this role will be 2 days a week 8:30-4:30 pm CT and 3 days a week 11:30-7:30 pm CT.

What you’ll do:

Facilitating family sessions via Zoom to a caseload of assigned adult patients and their caregivers.
Providing guidance and support to patients and family members to help promote goals and encourage patients progress through the program.
Providing direction to families about effective ways of supporting adults. Discussion topics and family therapy goals include safety plans, incorporating skill implementation at home, offering psychoeducation, improving communication, creating home contracts.
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 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.
Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass.
Participating in weekly Virtual Team meetings
Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass
Provide group therapy, as needed
Other duties as assigned

Who you are:

An individual who resides in the state of Illinois
Have two years, post master’s family therapy experience (preferred)
Have two years, post master’s experience working in higher levels of care (preferred)
Hold the following licenses or certification: LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, PsyD, PhD or Associate licensure such as LSW, LPC, AMFT
Possess a core skill set of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Possess comfort with technologies (e.g., Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, etc.)
Possess organization skills and ability to manage schedule and tasks

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 Partial Hospitalization and 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!