Adult Family Therapist at Compass Health Center

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p> <p><strong>About This Role</strong>&nbsp;</p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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,&nbsp; you would be a great addition to&nbsp;our team.&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Our state-of-the-art facility in Oak Brook is modern, bright, and creates an inviting therapeutic space for both patients and employees alike.</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong>&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Facilitating family sessions to a caseload of assigned adult patients and their loved ones&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Providing guidance and support to patients and family members to help promote goals and encourage patients progress through the program.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Providing direction to families about effective ways of supporting patients. Discussion topics and family therapy goals include safety plans, incorporating skill implementation, improving communication, creating contracts.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Providing loved ones with psychoeducation about substance use</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Provides couples’ therapy for patients and their partners</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Works with various presenting issues including depression, anxiety, psychosis, substance abuse</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Assisting in supporting families through phone coaching and follow-up calls.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Supporting patients in crisis.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Coordinating with the treatment team. This involves attending rounds and other program meetings regularly as well as using the electronic systems of communication.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Communicating with outside providers conducting family therapy for continuity of care.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Collaborating with the treatment team in assessing the patient’s progress and need for higher level of care, stepdown, or discharge.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Helping the family to coordinate an effective discharge plan.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Providing individual support to patients as needed.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Contributing clinical observations and insights during interdisciplinary meetings.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Charting progress of patients appropriately in the electronic medical record.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Participating in program meetings as needed.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Participating in a weekly family therapy meeting</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass</span></li> <li>Provide group therapy, as needed</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Who You Are</strong>&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li>Are a Psychologist or Master’s level therapist (required)&nbsp;</li> <li>Hold one of the following licenses: PhD, PsyD, LCSW, or LCPC (preferred)</li> <li>1+ years clinical work experience post-Master’s (strongly preferred)</li> <li>Have knowledge and experience utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), as well as other evidenced-based therapies, ideally in the context of delivering family therapy &nbsp;</li> <li>Have experience with patients in crisis, ideally prior experience working in partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, inpatient hospital, or residential setting&nbsp;</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>We are committed to a fair and equitable work environment. The expected compensation range for this role is below. This range includes multiple career path levels across the organization; where you fall in the range is dependent upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, your years of experience, type of experience, location, and education/certifications. Compass reserves the right to update these ranges.</p></div><div class="title">Compensation</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$55,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$90,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><em>We know job descriptions&nbsp;can be intimidating, so if this sounds like an opportunity for you, please don't hesitate to apply!</em>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Who We Are</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p>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.<em>&nbsp;</em>&nbsp;</p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Benefits &amp; Perks</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What’s Next?</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p>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!&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div>