LPHA - Intensive Community Based Therapist - MST

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. 

Additionally:
•    Service Excellence:
o    Exceptional Services (individual, family, and groups) as described in the MST service fidelity guidelines.
•    Stewardship of Resources: Maximizes Resources and Impact. For example:
o    Utilization of Workforce Time 
o    Creating value as a mental health professional in knowledge, skills, and abilities.
o    Utilization of agency resources.
o    Leveraging internal and external resources.
o    Cost reduction in services. 
o    Innovative practices that maximize resources.
•    Integrity: Leads team as a role model of integrity. For example:
o    Positive relationships within the agency, community, and individuals in service
o    Meeting state standards, and LPS policy and procedures
o    Ethical work practices
•    Community: A community builder and team champion for team’s professional relationships. For example:
o    Communication amongst, staff peers, and supervisors is building healthy relationships and build morale within Lifepath Systems.
o    Individuals and families feel understood and supported by our team. 
•    Continuous Improvement in Measurable ways: 
o    Builds knowledge, skills, and abilities to continually grow as a resource to individuals in service and Lifepath Systems in operations.
o    An innovator of new ideas, techniques, and strategies to are forward leaning and move LPS vision and values forward in all aspects your role. 

Qualifications

Education, Training and Experience (including licensure and certification)

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

Preferred Experience:

• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies
• Therapy with children and adults using cognitive behavioral techniques
• Couples therapy using behaviorally based approaches
• Behavioral therapy targeting school behavior and academic performance
• Implementation of 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)
• Collaboration and partnership with community agencies
• Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services
• Professional licensure in related field preferred but not required
• Work experience at a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Family systems theory and application
• Social ecological theory and application
• Behavioral therapies theory and application
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy theory and application
• Pragmatic family therapies theory and application
• Child development research and its application in treatment
• Social skills assessment and intervention