Licensed Child, Youth & Family Therapist

Join a team that shares your calling

At MultiCare, you’re more than just a job title — you’re part of a team built on trust that cares for each other, our patients and our communities. Belonging here means living our mission and values every day. If your purpose and passions align with ours, you’ll find a place to grow, do meaningful work and build a career you love in a community that feels like home.

At MultiCare, our mission is partnering for healing and a healthy future. We believe behavioral health care has the power to transform lives, strengthen families, and create healthier communities. As a Licensed Child, Youth & Family Therapist / Team Lead , you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact both through direct client care and by mentoring the next generation of behavioral health professionals.

This unique role combines clinical practice with leadership, allowing you to provide compassionate, evidence-based care to children, youth, and families while supporting the growth and development of master's-level counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy interns. Guided by MultiCare's values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration, Kindness, and Joy, you'll foster an environment where clients receive exceptional care and emerging clinicians are empowered to thrive.

In this role, you will:

• Provide individual, family, and group therapy services to children, adolescents, and families.
• Serve as a clinical leader and mentor for counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy interns.
• Support intern recruitment, onboarding, and successful integration into the clinical team.
• Provide weekly individual and group supervision focused on clinical growth, ethical practice, and professional development.
• Coach developing clinicians on assessment, treatment planning, documentation, evidence-based interventions, and client engagement.
• Monitor clinical quality, caseload management, productivity, and performance to ensure outstanding client outcomes.
• Promote adherence to organizational policies, regulatory requirements, licensing standards, and best practices.
• Partner with program leadership to support operational goals, clinical excellence, and a positive learning environment.
• Serve as a trusted clinical resource, fostering collaboration, continuous learning, and high-quality behavioral health care.

Why You'll Love This Opportunity

This role is ideal for a licensed therapist who is passionate about caring for children and families, enjoys mentoring and developing others, and wants to play a meaningful role in shaping the future behavioral health workforce. You'll have the chance to extend your impact beyond your own caseload by helping emerging clinicians grow into confident, compassionate providers while advancing MultiCare's commitment to improving the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

FTE: 1.0 (full-time), Shift: Day, Schedule: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Potentially up to $5,000 sign on bonus for qualified external candidates!

Position Summary

The Licensed Mental Health Professional is a key role within the behavioral health department of MultiCare, responsible for providing individual, family, and group therapy for patients. Treating a broad array of behavioral health disorders, mental illness and co-occurring illnesses, within this role you will be able to apply evidenced-based and evidence-informed outpatient therapy and clinical service skill sets in your daily work functions.

Responsibilities:

• You will complete psychiatric or psychosocial assessments, including mental status exams
• You will develop with the individual in service, an assessment and comprehensive treatment plan that identifies the unique needs of each individual and may provide individual, couples, family, psychoeducation, and group therapy
• You will provide psychotherapy, supportive therapy, i.e. problem solving, role-playing, modeling and support, social skill development, and assertiveness training to increase patient social and interpersonal activities in community settings
• You will document all encounters inpatient electronic health record according to organization policies and procedures; monitor outcome measurements
• You will collaborate with referral sources and other members of the patient's clinical team
• You will provide ongoing measurement of the individual in service outcomes and evaluation of intervention effectiveness

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or related field
• A Mental Health Professional as defined within HB 1724 one of these higher credentials are held: Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), SW Independent Clinical Lic (LICSW)

Why MultiCare?

Rooted in the local community

Partnering with patients, families and neighbors across the Pacific Northwest for more than 140 years.

Growth and education

Competitive tuition assistance, award-winning residencies, fellowships and career development to invest in you.

Well-being and support

Generous PTO, Code Lavender and Employee Assistance Programs to help you maintain balance and feel cared in your work and life.

Living our values

Respect, integrity, kindness and collaboration guide how we care for patients, communities and each other.

Belonging for all

Resource Groups and outreach programs help ensure every team member feels safe, seen, heard and valued.

Pacific Northwest lifestyle

Work and live where natural beauty, adventure and strong community connections are part of everyday life.

Pay and Benefit Expectations

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. The pay scale is $39.85 - $57.35 USD. However, pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant’s years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.