At Project Transition, it's our mission to enable individual persons who have serious mental illness, co-occurring substance use disorder and/or a dual diagnoses of SMI and IDD live a life that is meaningful to her or him in the community on terms she/he defines.

Title: Co-occurring Clinician 

Position Overview:

Project Transition is looking for a full time therapist position to work with our co-occurring population of individuals who have mental illness and substance use disorders. We are looking to hire a professional who has a PA license or is license eligible [LCSW, LPC, PsyD, PhD, or LMFT]. Project Transition is an adult, community-based, residential treatment program that provides individual and group therapy, and recovery programming, using an integrated co-occurring treatment model. Experience in treating individuals using Dialectical Behavior Therapy is desirable but not necessary. Will train as needed. Therapists will collaborate with a multidisciplinary Team to develop and implement our treatment and recovery programming.

Specific Duties:

• Provide individual and group therapy to assigned members
• Participate in meetings with members and families
• Participate in weekly treatment team meetings and additional consultation as needed
• Implementation and provision of DBT Education and Programming for Members and Staff desirable
• Provide group and individual therapy for a minimum of assigned members based on Levels of Care
• Facilitate a minimum of 2 Group Therapy sessions with members per our Levels of Care
• Provide family therapy/family meetings as needed
• Implement and provide DBT initiatives as assigned including DBT informed clinical consultation group for community Team (desired but not required)
• Facilitate understanding, and use of DBT concepts, contingency management, DBT skills with the Team/Staff, and members in the treatment milieu (desired but not required).
• Participate in monthly Senior Staff and Fidelity Team Meetings
• Participate in Peer Review Process

For all Full-Time Employees our benefit package includes:

• Paid Time Off
• Health Insurance available within 60 days of hire 
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• STD/LTD
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Health Spending Accounts
• Able to participate in company 401K after 6 months of hire
• Company 401K match up to 3%

All Employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• We are hiring professionals who have a clinical license in the state of TN, either as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), or Psychologist (PsyD., PhD.). 
• Training in DBT desirable but not required, we will train (DBT Intensive Training or Foundational Training)
• Ability and interest in collaborating with a multi-disciplinary Team consisting of psychiatrists, community directors, psychiatric rehabilitation counselors, addiction's counselors, peer specialists, recovery specialists, wellness specialists, and other therapists
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational and time management skills
• Strong sense of teamwork and mentoring highly desired, including the ability to work with leadership and extended team remotely
• Motivated individual with strong work ethic and ability to multi-task
• Must be a self-initiator
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to self-manage

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.