Mental Health Therapist
As a Mental Health Therapist, you will have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of women, children, and their families throughout Minnesota. Your passion to provide client focused care and willingness to be a team player makes all the difference in fulfilling our mission and philosophy of care by breaking the cycle of addiction and trauma.
If this sounds like you, keep reading because you might be the person we are looking for!
By joining the Wayside team, you will become part of an ethical, compassionate, innovative team that works together to empower women, children, and families in our community. Wayside values diversity and inclusion and we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence. Therefore, we encourage people from all background to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you required accommodations during the interview process.
Employees of Wayside must have or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination by date of hire to be considered. Proof of vaccination required. Employees may request an accommodation for not receiving the vaccination.
Why you should work with Wayside:
Wayside has three programs to help women break the cycle of addiction and trauma.
Wayside Women's Treatment Center provides residential substance use disorder and mental health treatment services for women who face the greatest challenges of achieving long-term sobriety. Residential treatment includes addressing substance use and mental health disorders and wraparound services including housing, health, employment, and parenting.
Wayside Family Treatment Center maintains the family unit by welcoming women who are pregnant and mothers with children into treatment to prevent separation. We receive services for addiction, parenting, understanding how their alcohol or substance use contributes to Adverse Childhood Experiences, and improving their relationship skills to ultimately break the generational transmission of risk.
Wayside Wellness Outpatient Center provides outpatient, intensive outpatient, and preventative care of women. Our programming meets the needs of women at any stage of their journey.
What you will do:
- Oversee the SUD clients who score positive on the mental health screening tool
- Provide therapeutic services to individuals referred through Wayside’s Intake department
- Provide individual, couples, and family psychotherapy as assigned.
- Provide mental health and clinical consultation to SUD teams as needed.
- Develop and carry out procedures for providing family and outpatient mental health services to Wayside Clients across all Wayside programs.
- Become credentialed with all major health insurance agencies and assist other employees with credentialing.
- Assist SUD counselors to obtain diagnostic assessments and other mental health records from other agencies
- Help with referrals to outside sources for additional mental health assessments and resources.
Benefits:
Benefits effective first of the month following date of hire. Employees working 25 hour or more hours per week are eligible to participate in benefits.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer paid short-term and long-term disability
- Employer paid $50,000 life insurance policy
- Voluntary life insurance
- Generous PTO plan starting first pay period
- 8 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays
- 403(b) retirement savings with agency match after one year of employment
- Participation in the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) through Department of Education.
- Free access to the Calm meditation app
- Supervision towards licensure at no cost to the non-independently licensed therapists.
- Free CEU opportunities
Compensation: $58,000-64,000 per year.
Schedule:
Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week, day-time hours. Hybrid work schedule.
Sound like a good fit? A few requirements include:
- Master’s degree required
- Licensed or eligible for licensure in Minnesota as an LICSW, LMFT, LPC/LPCC
- Competence to provide trauma informed care, substance use treatment, diagnostic assessments, and family programming.
- Must be able to maintain client confidentiality in accordance with state and federal guidelines and HIPAA requirements.
- Must be able to pass a Minnesota DHS background study
- Free of problematic substance-use for at least 2 years proceeding employment.
- Reliable transportation due to frequent travel between sites.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in DBT, motivational interviewing, and family work is highly valued.
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