What are the responsibilities and job description for the MST Supervisor position at Amethyst Consulting & Treatment Solutions, PLLC?
Company Overview:
Amethyst Consulting & Treatment Solutions, PLLC is a private human services company dedicated to providing high quality, specialized emotional/behavioral treatment services tailored to the needs of individual children, adults, and families.
Position: MST Supervisor
Summary: MST Supervisors oversee a team of MST Therapists as well as being responsible for their own caseload.
Job Responsibilities
- Conducts weekly group supervision of MST team to assure adherence to MST principles and MST analytic process.
- Conducts individual supervision as needed to target clinical competency needs and to remove individual barrier to effective implementation of MST treatment
- Assures appropriate documentation of clinical effort to allow for peer and supervisory input, and to meet all reporting and communication needs of funding and referrals sources
- Provides supportive and corrective feedback to clinicians to promote client outcomes
- Provides administrative support targeting systemic barriers to treatment success
- Assures availability of clinical and administrative support for clinicians 24 hours per day 7 days per week
- Assures therapist accessibility to clients when needed at times most likely to promote engagement
- Assures that clinicians achieve engagement with all key participants
- Provides direct clinical training to assure clinician competency in all clinical areas relating to the implementation of MST interventions
- Assures that all assessments are comprehensive, multisystemic, and provide adequate information to determine the causes and correlates of referral behaviors to direct effective treatment within the ecological context
- Other duties as assigned
Educational Requirements
Master’s degree in Social Work or related field, Ph.D. preferred.
Preferred Experience
- Substance abuse treatment using contingency management direct use of pragmatic family therapies
- Individual therapy with children and adults using cognitive behavioral techniques
- Marital therapy using behaviorally-based approaches
- Behavioral therapy targeting school behavior and academic performance
Preferred Knowledge
- Family systems theory and application
- Substance use/abuse theory and behavioral approaches to SA treatment
- Social ecological theory and application
- Behavioral therapies theory and knowledge
- Cognitive-behavioral theory therapy and application
- Pragmatic family therapies theory and application
- Social skills assessment and intervention
- Child development research and its application in treatment
