Family therapist [h1.location_city]

Weekly outpatient therapy isnt always enough and a trip to the ER isnt the only answer. Patients and their families rely on CompassHealth Center whenincrisis every day wehelp people overcome depression anxiety suicidality obsessions / compulsions trauma chronic pain and other obstacles in order for our patients to live freely.

About This Role

Our Family Therapists play a key role in our multi-disciplinary teams and work to ensure synergy across treatment. As a Family Therapist in our Trauma program youll 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.

Our centrally located Chicago office is nestled in the vibrant neighborhood of North Center not to mention the social events hosted on our fully furnished rooftop!

What Youll Do :

• Facilitating family sessions to a caseload of assigned adult patients and their loved ones
• 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 patients. Discussion topics and family therapy goals include safety plans incorporating skill implementation improving communication creating contracts.
• Providing loved ones with psychoeducation about substance use
• Provides couples therapy for patients and their partners
• Works with various presenting issues including depression anxiety psychosis substance abuse
• 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 patients 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 a weekly family therapy meeting
• Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass

Who You Are :

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.

Compensation

$55000 - $90000 USD

We know job descriptionscan be intimidating so if this sounds like an opportunity for you please dont 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 PartialHospitalizationand 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 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.

Whats 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 wed be grateful to hear from you!

Key Skills

Experience Working With Students,Time Management,Acute Care,HTTPS,Speech Therapy,Assistive Technologies,Autism Experience,Pediatrics Experience,Home Care,Interpretation,Patient Service Experience,Phone Etiquette

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 55000 - 90000