$2,500.00 SIGN ON BONUS!

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

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 interventions such as skill building, changing unhelpful family interactions, and increasing social support, to name a few. 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 is a community-based model.

Full-Time, Exempt position

Job Requirements:

• 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
• 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

Education and Experience

• Masters degree in a related human services field
• Maryland Licensure (e.g. LCPC, LGPC, LCSW, LMSW)
• One year of positively referenced experience working directly with families is preferred but not required.

Benefits

• Licensure Supervision reimbursement for license-eligible therapists. On-site licensure supervision available.
• Competitive Salary and Health Benefits
• Flexible schedule
• Sheppard Pratt is a large organization with several therapeutic programs in many locations. Opportunities for professional growth and development are vast with this organization.