Job Description

Compass Health Center is seeking a Mental Health Creative Art Therapist for our Partial Hospital and Intensive Outpatient Programs at our Chicago, IL office.

We are seeking an experienced clinician with a passion for delivering evidence-based therapy to Adults and Young Adults with anxiety and mood disorders. As a Creative Art Therapist, you will be responsible for facilitating general skills groups, process groups, creative art therapy groups, coordinating creative art therapy practices and principles and providing individual treatment as needed.

If you are passionate about working with patients to communicate, develop and carry out appropriate treatment plans and compassionate care, you would be an ideal addition to our team.

Your responsibilities will include:

• CBT/DBT Skills curriculum development and group facilitation
• Consideration of therapy treatment goals and consultation with treatment team
• Creative Art Therapy Curriculum Development and group facilitation
• Helping establish creative art therapy principles including patient challenges, modifications/theoretical consideration
• Ensuring the upkeep of materials and art supplies are safe and organized
• Documenting within the electronic health record with ethical considerations/storage and disposal of artwork/consent
• Consulting with treatment team about principals and ethics regarding responding to patient art, what to do with concerns over content, storage, documentation and processing
• May assist in the training of new staff and interns, providing direction and clinical guidance
• Provide crisis intervention as needed

You would be the ideal candidate, if you:

• Hold a Master’s degree or PhD degree in the Creative Arts
• ATR (registered art therapist) or BC-DMT required
• License preferred (LPC,LCPC, LSW or LCSW)
• Have experience with program target population in group and individual art therapy settings
• Possess a core skill set of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

The benefits of working at Compass Health Center:

Compass Health Center offers our full time employees a competitive total compensation package, including:

• Comprehensive Health, Dental, Vision and Accident Insurance
• 401K with generous company match
• Increased PTO with years of employment
• Performance based raise structure, with the opportunity for annual raises
• No weekends or on call responsibilities
• Annual CEU series provided on site