Intensive Community Based Therapist- MST

Overview: Salary Range $35.58 Hourly Position Type Full Time Education Level Graduate Degree

Description: The MST Therapist will have the following job responsibilities:

• Provide direct clinical treatment using methods compatible with Multisystemic Therapy (MST) principles and practices to youth and families through a homebased model of service delivery.
• Implement interventions within or between systems in the youth's natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of the youth (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
• Conduct MST assessment including review of referral information, identifying, and engaging key participants, identifying systemic strengths and weaknesses, and developing an analysis of the fit of problem behaviors within the ecological context. Maintains a caseload of 4-6 families.
• Engage primary caregiver(s) and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement.
• Implement a problem conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention implementation, outcomes review and strategy revision procedure using the MST Analytic Process.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment efforts that promote peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrate compliance with the nine MST Principles and the MST Analytic Process.
• Ability to engage and collaborate with all relevant systems and key participants within each system, to maintain alignment throughout MST treatment.
• Provide direct clinical treatment using methods compatible with MST principles and practices.
• Participate in all MST training, weekly supervision, consultation, and MST Therapist development activities.
• All services are provided in a person centered, trauma informed manner.
• Sign-On-Bonus: $2,000 payable at the 6-month mark, contingent upon: all required training completed, no personnel actions, and performance metrics met.

Qualifications: Education, Training, & Experience (including licensure & certification)

Qualifications: Master's Degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area. Professional licensure as LPC- Associate, LMFT-Associate, or LMSW under clinical supervision required, full licensure as an LPC, LMFT, LCSW preferred.