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.

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 are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other protected class. We strive to create a working environment that is free of all forms of discrimination and one that promotes human dignity and mutual respect among all staff. We believe every member of our organization enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, to identify challenges, and to discover, design, and deliver solutions. 

If you are a candidate with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete this application, please direct your inquiries to the Recruiter.