Child Trauma Therapist

Our growing Mental Health Program is seeking a mental health professional who is passionate about providing evidence-based, trauma-specific services to child victims of abuse, neglect, and exploitation at Red River Children's Advocacy Center. The clinician will provide specialized trauma-focused mental health assessment, treatment, and crisis intervention services for child victims of abuse and their family members. As part of the multi-disciplinary team, the clinician will work in partnership with Child Advocacy Center staff, law enforcement, Child Protective Services investigators, prosecution, medical personnel and other key partners to mobilize and strengthen the collaborative approach to the prevention, intervention, investigation, treatment and prosecution of child abuse. Full-time is preferred, but part-time and contract options may be considered. In office is preferred, but remote may be considered.

Job duties include providing evidence-based, trauma specific mental health assessments to determine appropriate treatment and conducting individual and group therapy sessions in office and by telehealth. Treatment models used include Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention, Problematic Sexual Behavior Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress, and others as training opportunities become available. Clinicians are provided training in evidence-based treatment models and receive continuing education and advanced trainings in child abuse and evidence-based treatment.

For clinicians with independent licenses, opportunities may be available to provide supervision to provisionally licensed staff and interns. Provisionally licensed clinicians are provided with licensure supervision.

Qualifications and Education

Required:

· Masters Degree in social work or counseling – LCSW, LPCC, LMSW, LPC, LAPC will be considered

· A valid license to provide therapy in ND and MN or license eligible. Job offers are contingent on successful licensure.

· Must possess strong oral and written communication skills

· Understand and abide by the confidentiality requirements and procedures related to working in an environment such as the Children’s Advocacy Center

· Must be proficient in office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Preferred:

· Experience working with children and families

· Trained in and experience providing trauma-specific and evidence-based treatment interventions, such as Trauma Focused – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

· Experience screening and assessing child victims of trauma and their family members to appropriately identify recommended therapeutic interventions

· Have demonstrated commitment to on-going cross disciplinary education and openness to supervisory feedback

· Experience in working with diverse professionals from child protection, law enforcement, court systems and related community services.

Compensation

· Full-time, competitive compensation dependent on experience and degree.

· Continuing education and professional development opportunities provided.

· 401(k) match 3%

· Paid Time Off

Employer Paid Benefits 75%:

· Health Insurance

Employer Paid Benefits 100%:

· Dental Insurance

· Vision Insurance

· Life Insurance

· Short-term Disability

· Long-term Disability

· Employee Assistance Program

· Mileage Reimbursement

Pay: $60,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person