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