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.