Washburn Center for Children is a leading children’s mental health center, caring for a wide variety of children’s needs associated with anxiety, depression, behavioral difficulties and trauma.

 

The 141-year-old nonprofit offers critical mental health intervention to help children - and their families - realize hope. Washburn Center for Children serves almost 4,000 children ages 0-18 and approximately 9,000 family members each year. Washburn Center’s three office locations – Brooklyn Park, Edina, and Minneapolis – serve the entire Twin Cities metro area. The nonprofit also offers in-home services, and its school-based program serves 50+ schools in the Eden Prairie, Bloomington, Minneapolis, Savage, Burnsville and Eagan school districts.

This early childhood mental health program serves families with children from birth to kindergarten in Hennepin and Ramsey County who have social, emotional, or behavioral developmental needs, have been exposed to traumatic events, and/or are experiencing environmental stressors. The program offers weekly intensive family therapy. In Hennepin County, some children may be referred to the program’s therapeutic preschool group depending on needs and availability. Currently, Family Focused has clinicians who are able to provide therapy in English, Spanish and Hmong. Interpreters are offered for other languages and communication needs.

 

·       Therapy designed to strengthen the parent-child relationship while supporting children’s functioning across all areas of development.

·       Caregivers are an essential part of the therapy process for change and healing and are always an integral part of the therapy sessions with the child.

·       Families bring their culture and life experiences along with their knowledge of caring for the child, as they partner with a therapist to develop a better understanding of their child’s needs.

·       Families learn to play together, build trust and establish the adult as a supportive resource for the child’s worries and struggles as they learn and grow.

Washburn Center for Children is committed to all our employees’ professional development.  During your time at Washburn you will receive continues clinical training, increased supervision time and exposure to a wide array of clinical needs.  This role is a highly collaborative function and you will experience exposure to all programs at Washburn Center and work in collaboration with the various experienced professionals at Washburn to ensure the best care for the children and families in your care.

 

Clinical Treatment - Clinicians provide services to educate and support families to become empowered to better self-advocate and navigate the various systems with more confidence and skill, as well as providing specialized direct services to children and their families, in their homes, schools, and communities to include the following services:

·       Conduct DC 0-5 diagnostics assessments

·       Develop and implement a treatment plan with the family based on the diagnosis

·       Implement Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) to strengthen the parent-child attachment relationship; address traumatic events/triggers; locate protective factors; promote hope; provide developmental guidance and provide emotional support.

·       Care coordination, including collaboration with psychiatrists and other professionals working with the child and meeting regularly with co-group facilitators to share information regarding clients

·       Create a discharge plan

·       Clinicians may be asked to assist in the group therapy sessions for children in the program as needed.

   

Documentation –

Clinicians maintain required documentation as specified in our Clinical Policy Manual, including:

·       Diagnostics assessments

·       Treatment plans for each client

·       Daily progress notes

·       Record keeping of all clinical activities and grant related services

·       Outcome instruments and assessment tools, including  but not limited to the DC 0-5 assessment, Preschool SDQ and ECSII

·       Discharge summaries

·       Satisfaction surveys

·       Timely response of communications from the program director, the supervisor, or program support to ensure clear communication throughout the program

·       Maintain current, timely authorizations for all therapeutic services form Medical Assistance, commercial insurance, or Hennepin County

**All clinicians are to ensure Minnesota and HIPAA data privacy requirements are followed.**

 

·       Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, marriage and family therapy or other related field from accredited college

·       Must maintain or be working towards independent licensure; licensure as LICSW, LP, LPCC, or LMFT strongly preferred

·       A minimum of one year of  supervised clinical experience or completion of related internship

·       Training in DC 0-5 Diagnostic Assessments required

·       Training in CPP desired

·       Must have vehicle in operating condition, a valid driver’s license, and car insurance

$60,000 - $75,000 a year

Salary bracket (full time): $55,000 - $68,000 (Salary is based on several factors including but not limited to licensure, work experience and education)

Why work as an Early Childhood Therapist at Washburn? https://youtu.be/UNIk6fpQIM4

 

Washburn offers benefits to Full-Time benefit eligible employees comprehensive Dental, Vision, Health, Life and Long term disability insurance.  Additionally we offer a 403b retirement plan and a flexible benefit option (FSA). 

 

Vacation:  Paid Vacation accrues at 10 hours of vacation per month - up to 15 days / 120 hours annually.

Sick Leave:  Paid sick leave accrues at 6.68 hours of sick per month - up to 10 days / 80 hours.

Holidays:  There are 2.5 days/20 hours of floating holidays per year in addition to the eight standard holidays.

 

***Please note that Internships, Part-Time (less than 30 hours/week) and Temporary positions are NOT eligible for all of Washburn Center's benefits***