Adoption Family Clinician

The Adoption Department at Lund seeks an  Adoption Clinician who is a compassionate and experienced therapist with a heart for children and families navigating the path of adoption and healing from trauma. We are seeking a thoughtful, collaborative, and adoption-competent clinician to join our team and provide therapeutic services to youth and families formed through adoption and guardianship. 

This role provides intensive trauma-informed, family-focused therapy to 8-10 youth and their families each year. Services may take place in homes, virtually, or in-office, depending on the needs of the family and location across the different counties assigned. The Clinician completes thorough assessments of family strengths, challenges, and histories to help build trust and understanding and develop individualized treatment plans with clear goals and objectives to support long-term stability and healing. 

As a key member of each youth’s care team, this role collaborates closely with Wendy’s Wonderful Kids® Recruiters and other service providers—especially those delivering post-permanency support—to ensure a coordinated, wraparound approach. They serve as an advocate for youth and caregivers, helping them navigate systems and access the resources they need to thrive. Diligent documentation of all services—including progress notes and treatment updates—is essential to ensure compliance with Medicaid, insurance, and agency standards. 

This is a full-time, 40-hours per week position that requires frequent travel throughout northern Vermont, serving Chittenden, Addison, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, Washington, Orleans, and Essex Counties. The salary range for this position is $60,000 - $65,000. For the full job description, click here.

Research shows that individuals from marginalized groups—such as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, women, people with disabilities, and those from working-class backgrounds—often hesitate to apply for jobs unless they can see themselves meeting and performing every responsibility and requirement. However, many skills can be learned on the job. If you can see yourself adding value to the role, our clients, staff, and guests and meeting most of the responsibilities and qualifications, we encourage you to apply! 

What You Will Bring: 

• Masters in psychology, social work or counseling required. Licensure or ability to be licensed preferred.
• Preferred 3 years of professional experience in trauma-informed and adopt-related work or an equivalent combination of transferrable professional and lived experience.
• Ability to maintain a valid VT Driver’s License and access to reliable transportation. 

The successful completion of a background check and driving check is a condition of employment. 

Why Join Our Team at Lund 

For over 136 years, Lund has been harnessing hope and providing opportunities to help strengthen families and ensure a safe, secure and loving environment for all Vermont children. As a multi-service nonprofit organization, Lund serves more than 6,000 individuals each year. Lund’s mission is to help children thrive by empowering families to break cycles of poverty, addiction and abuse. Lund offers hope and opportunity to families through education, treatment, family support and adoption.

At Lund, we celebrate our clients' and staff's unique strengths and talents, fostering a supportive, inclusive environment where collaboration thrives. Our work is rooted in a strengths-based approach, focusing on family-centered services, including lifelong adoption support and innovative residential and community treatment programs that address both treatment and parenting. Our team believes in creating a vibrant, fun, and community-oriented workplace, emphasizing professional growth through ongoing training and weekly supervision. We value employee well-being, offering staff-led initiatives for wellness, diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as opportunities for work-life balance, with some positions offering flexible or hybrid schedules. Lund provides competitive pay, paid training, and a comprehensive benefits package for benefits-eligible positions that includes health, dental, life, disability, retirement plans, generous time-off accrual, 13 paid holidays, and wellness reimbursements, making Lund a place where you can thrive personally and professionally. 

Lund does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, genetic information, ancestry, place of birth, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. EEO/AA