[Hiring] Primary Therapist @Compass Health Center

Role Description

As a Primary Therapist in the Over-18 Eating Disorders Program, you’ll work thoughtfully with our patients to develop and implement their individualized treatment plans. This role will consist of:

• Conducting individual therapy meetings
• Providing secondary support for meals and snacks
• Collaborating with patients’ outpatient teams
• Leading patients through their overall treatment program

You’ll partner closely with the entirety of our treatment teams, including Registered Dietitians, Group Therapists, Family Therapists, and Psychiatry Team Members to ensure comprehensive and compassionate care.

What You'll Do:

• Assessment and Formulation
  • Complete initial intake evaluations to determine diagnosis and appropriateness for program
  • Build and maintain transdiagnostic case formulation based on maintaining mechanisms throughout course of patient’s treatment
  • Sequence treatment using program’s treatment target hierarchy
• Individual Treatment
  • Deliver individual therapy with evidence-based eating disorder interventions (e.g., CBT-E, exposure therapy, CBT-AR), integrating ERP, DBT, ACT, and other interventions for eating disorders and co-occurring conditions
  • Assign individualized homework, including design, assign, and debrief individual exposures
  • Identify and address accommodation and safety behaviors
• Care Coordination
  • Serve as case lead for the treatment plan, coordinating the work of Registered Dietitians, Group Therapists, Family Therapists, and prescribers
  • Participate in interdisciplinary treatment rounds
  • Partner with Family Therapist on family involvement
  • Utilize Compass’s Evidence-Based Assessment system to monitor progress and guide treatment planning
  • Coordinate with outpatient providers and complete aftercare handoff
• Medical and Risk
  • Monitor medical status in collaboration with nursing and prescribers; recognize indicators of medical instability and escalate per protocol
  • Assess need for higher level of care, step-down, or discharge
• Program Operations
  • Provide secondary (Non-RD) coverage for supported meals and snacks
  • Complete required documentation throughout treatment
  • Participate in required program training, fidelity monitoring, supervision, and consultation
  • Other duties, as assigned

Qualifications

• Independently licensed as a psychologist, LCSW, LCPC, or LMFT in the state of Illinois (required)
• 2+ years post-Master's clinical experience in eating disorder treatment (preferred)
• Experience treating eating disorders (required)
• Experience treating OCD, anxiety, PTSD, and/or depression (preferred)
• Have experience in a PHP, IOP, residential, or inpatient setting

Requirements

• Working knowledge of conceptualization of eating disorder treatment and co-occurring conditions
• Ability to deliver interventions that reliably address maintaining mechanisms of disorders, and ability to tolerate patient distress without accommodating or reassuring
• Practices from weight-inclusive framework
• Adopts “all foods fit” approach towards clinical nutrition
• Works within defined curriculum and fidelity expectations rather than an idiosyncratic model
• Seeks and uses supervision and consultation
• Excellent time management skills, ability to juggle multiple demands simultaneously in a fast paced and changing environment

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical/dental/vision plans
• 401k program with company matching
• Generous PTO (including competitive parental leave after 1 year of employment)
• Continuous training through CEU seminars and volunteering opportunities