Candidates MUST be willing and able to:
- Live locally, within 1 hour of the noted territory.
- Provide therapy inside the family home as a regular part of the position.
- Maintain a flexible, non-traditional schedule, including evenings and weekends as needed, based on the availability of the youth and family.
- Regularly travel throughout the full identified service territory to meet with families and provide services where needed.
Overview
Do you have a passion for working with children and their families? We are looking for compassionate, dedicated professionals who want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends.
You will receive ongoing training in the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) model as you work with families, youth, their communities, and other key members of their ecology to implement MST as designed. Extensive research has proven the effectiveness of MST. MST therapists do whatever it takes, via close collaboration with all involved, to address the needs of juveniles with criminal offenses, including, in some cases, substance abuse. You will empower families to address challenging and/or problematic behavior and to help youth aged 12–17 make life-transforming changes. Treatment progress is made through intensive interventions such as skill building, changing unhelpful family interactions, and increasing social support, to name a few. For more information on multisystemic therapy, please watch this video: How Does MST Work?
Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide direct clinical treatment using the MST treatment model and principles. Some principles include leveraging strengths and focusing on the positive, understanding sequences of behavior, and increasing mature behavior.
- Conduct a thorough assessment of the client and family: gather information on behaviors of concern and strengths in the family and their ecology to inform conceptualization of the problem behaviors and interactions within the family’s ecological context.
- Very comfortable working with a diverse community of clients.
- Knowledge of the types of families in the community
- Continuously work to engage the primary caregiver, family members, supports, and community agency staff (school, probation, child welfare) in change-oriented treatment.
- Dedicate time to weekly case planning and evaluation of case progress, with ongoing support from your supervisor and team members.
- Receive regular training, professional development, supervision, and consultation activities designed to help you acquire extensive clinical skills within the MST treatment model.
- On-Call -- Assure, along with fellow clinicians, that clients have access to 24 hours/day, 7 days/week support as needed.
Qualifications
- A 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, or full licensure as an LPC, LMFT, LCSW preferred.
Experience Required: At least 2 years of experience in the behavioral health field.
- Experience in serving families in community-based programs
- Ability and willingness to work with families in their own homes
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Strong clinical skills
- Ability to adapt and individualize program interventions to utilize family strengths and skills.
- Skill in handling multiple tasks and meeting multiple deadlines.
- Valid driver’s license; maintain current insurance and registration; and have a clear driving record.
- A clear result from a criminal background check.
- Must live within one-hour travel time from the designated service area.
- Clear drug screen results from the organization’s designated medical facility.
Salary: $27.23 per hour ($56,643 per year); if Master's
$64,983 per year if fully licensed
Sign-on bonus may be available
Equal Employment Opportunity
Empower Community Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.