Staff Therapist
Company: The Family Institute at Northwestern University
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 28, 2024
Job Description:
Job Type
Full-time
Description
THE ORGANIZATION:
Through clinical services, education, and research, The Family
Institute at Northwestern University is one of the nation's leading
relationship-based behavioral health organizations committed to
strengthening and healing children and adolescents, couples,
families, and individuals. When you join The Family Institute, you
are joining a team of over 250 collaborators comprised of
clinicians, educators, researchers, therapists-in-training,
partners, and administrators across four service sites. We are a
strong, independent organization focused on advancing the world of
behavioral health.
Purpose:
Provide mental health care that may include work with individuals,
couples, and /or families that supports the mission of The Family
Institute, the vision for Clinical Services and is in keeping with
The Family Institute's core organizational values.
Location:
Staff therapists may work in a hybrid work arrangement from their
home office and any office location in downtown Chicago, Evanston,
Westchester, or Northbrook.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Provide psychotherapy that is empirically informed,
theoretically grounded, culturally responsive, and relationally
based.
- Provide a timely response to all current or prospective clients
and provide referrals when necessary.
- Perform mental health assessments, identifying at-risk
behaviors and develop appropriate treatment plan.
- Document all services in EHR within established organizational
timelines.
- Build and maintain a caseload by meeting revenue targets.
- Obtain two years of clinical supervision with satisfactory
evaluations.
- Work collaboratively with clients, external systems,
colleagues, and operation staff, and in a culturally sensitive and
appropriate manner.
- Collaborate with team members on complex clinical or shared
cases as appropriate.
- Support organizational or administrative communication with
clients Other Job Responsibilities:
- Attend weekly individual supervision.
- Attend a weekly peer clinical consultation meeting.
- Attend monthly Clinical Services meetings with all clinical
staff, in addition to all other mandatory meetings.
- Demonstrate an ongoing investment in professional development.
Adhere to confidentiality practices and procedures.
- Maintain compliance with organizational policies and
procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor. Optional Job
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to a class (e.g., guest lecturer)
- Supervise therapist in-training
- Participate in a clinical, educational, or research
program
- Present a topic to external groups (workshop,
presentation)
- Receive meta vision
- Develop and disseminate a "product" (e.g., workshop, talk,
blog) that drives referrals to The Family Institute The Family
Institute is currently only hiring for Child, Adolescent, and
Family Services, and Couples Services at this time.
Requirements
Summary of Qualifications Knowledge and Skills:
- Possess a training background and clinical experience that are
empirically informed, theoretically grounded, and systemically
oriented
- Understanding of personal and professional boundaries
- Organizational skills
- Time and stress management skills
- Communication skills to include interpersonal, teamwork, and
collaboration skills
- Computer literacy
- Problem solving skills Minimum Hiring Specifications:
- Master's Degree in a license-eligible discipline
- Minimum of one-year post-graduate experience
- Ability to work some evenings and Saturdays Please note that
any candidate who is or has a family member/close personal
connection to a current TFI client cannot be considered for hiring
as this may pose an ethical conflict of interest. Thank you for
your understanding.
Physical and Mental Requirements:
- Ability to clearly and effectively compose e-mails and clinical
documentation
- Limited mobility due to constant attention to computer screen
or sitting with clients
- Work requires ability to hear (perceiving the nature of sounds
at normal speaking levels) and express or exchange ideas by means
of the spoken word
- Work requires ability to see adequately to perform work-related
duties
- Ability to comprehend complex ideas and complex diagnostic
histories of clients
- Ability to develop solutions to problems
- Ability to work under stress and successfully handle multiple
projects
Equal Opportunity Employment Statement The Family Institute is an
equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are
committed to creating an inclusive environment for all
employees.
Reasonable Accommodation Notice The Family Institute believes in
providing access to employment opportunities to people with
disabilities.
Keywords: The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Cicero , Staff Therapist, Healthcare , Chicago, Illinois
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