Join Family & Children's Center as a Therapist with our Child Advocacy Center and Outpatient Team in La Crosse, WI!

As the area’s leading provider of human services, Family & Children’s Center is looking for talented, motivated, caring & compassionate employees who want to build better tomorrows for children, families and individuals in the community. Your hard work and service changes lives and changes futures. FCC offers a positive, compassionate, and driven team of individuals and programs that support the health, healing, and meaningful life of all who seek our services.

THE PURPOSE: To provide services include but are not limited to: individual therapy; group therapy; family therapy; in-home therapy; diagnostic assessments, other assessments or direct care services as trained or qualified. Maintain full caseload, equal to no less than 70% of time, allocated for psychotherapy and or other billable direct services.As part of the Child Advocacy Centers team, we have an additional purpose in providing specialized services to clients, seeking to process their trauma experiences. We encourage flexibility in different modalities of treatment such as individual, families, and child/adolescent services. We are looking for clinicians who are aligned with the mission and vision of Family & Children’s Center.

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide psychotherapy that is empirically informed, theoretically grounded, culturally responsive, and relationally based.
• Focus on specialized trauma treatment for clients who have experienced trauma and who are ready to process their experiences.
• 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(s).
• Document all services in EHR within established organizational timelines.
• Build and maintain a caseload by meeting revenue targets.
• 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:

• Agency Participation:Participate in scheduled individual and/or group supervision, staff meetings, and other agency meetings, committees, or groups as requested. Perform community presentations or other outreach services as required.
• 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.

REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Master's Degree in a license-eligible discipline.
  • FCC welcomes new and experienced applicants, so long as they meet the education and licensing requirements.
• Possess specialized knowledge and training with specialized trauma treatment services. This may include specialized training and certification(s) for treatment of trauma and PTSD
• Engage in empirically informed, theoretically grounded, and systemically oriented services
• Training & Consultation:Complete or maintain training on best practice and evidence based models with successful outcomes. Stay abreast of new developments in clinical area of expertise. Communicate and share new knowledge with other clinical staff during clinical consultation. Seek out appropriate consultation with supervisor or other clinicians as needed when encountering challenging cases. Maintain certification/licensure in good standing, and remain current in required hours of annual staff development.
• Organizational skills
• Communication skills to include interpersonal, teamwork, and collaboration skills.

LOCATION: Services will be provided at our La Crosse and Winona locations as well as in the community, schools, or client homes and deemed appropriate.

Benefits at FCC

• Hours of work are generally Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
• Paid time off through accrued vacation and sick time & 9 recognized holidays plus anadditional floating holiday!
• Customize your insurance needs - medical, vision, and dental options to fit your family.
• Health Savings Account- FCC makes monthly contributions!
• Life insurance covered 100% by FCC.
• Short term and long-term disability insurance available
• 401(K) Savings Plan- FCC will match up to 3% of the employee’s contribution (a 50% match on the first 6%).
• Business Casual dress code policy dress appropriately per your schedule.
• Our Clients the biggest benefit of all is that you are making a difference by supporting members in your local community!