Mental Health Professional

Overview

Do you have a passion for working with children and families? We are looking for compassionate, dedicated people in who want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends.

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.
• Comfort 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.
• Assure, along with fellow clinicians, that clients have access to 24 hours/day, 7 days/week support as needed.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area required, provisional licensure at minimum required.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license and have reliable transportation to travel to client’s homes and possibly transport multiple clients at once.
• Must live within a 30 – 45-minute travel time from the designated service area.

• 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.
• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
• Collaboration and partnership with community agencies
• Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services.

Pay: Minimum Starting

Hourly Rate

$28.76 Maximum Starting Hourly Rate - Dependent on education and experience

Benefits

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off - 9.23 hrs per pay period
• 10 Observed Company Paid Holidays
• 8 Hours Annual Volunteer Time Off
• Retirement Plan w/ Employer Match
• Employee Assistance Program

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