MST Therapist

Position Summary:

JCCA is seeking qualified Mental Health Clinicians to join the Multi-Systemic Therapy-Family Integrated Transitions (MST-FIT) program, serving juveniles who are currently in placement, at the highest risk of recidivism and in need of complex treatment. The model combines services delivered in the residential treatment setting, an approach called the Integrated Treatment Model (ITM), with MST-based aftercare to provide a smooth transition out of placement and back into the home.

The MST-FIT therapist will be a part of a small team of dedicated therapists who work with youth and families on campus and in the community to address challenging behaviors. As a MST-FIT therapist you will carry 5-6 cases at a time, working not only with the youth but with their family and peers as well to achieve lasting outcomes. You will empower families to address problematic behavior and will help youths make life-transforming changes.

*Hybrid/Flexible Work Schedule

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Multi-Systemic Therapy assessments, 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.
• Engage primary caregiver and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement
• Implement a problem conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention implementation, case outcome 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 9 MST principles and MST analytic process
• 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 MST training, supervision and consultation activities
• Maintain a flexible schedule to accommodate for service need outside of standard office hours
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications Required:

• Master’s degree in social work (MSW), marriage & family therapy (MFT) or mental health clinician (MHC) 
• Ability to focus on treatment planning with children and families with the goal of permanency
• Must demonstrate the ability to collaborate with client and teams that are culturally and professionally diverse
• Solid organizational and follow-up skills are required

Qualifications Preferred:

• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e. structural, strategic and functional) family therapies
• Individual therapy with children and adults using cognitive behavioral techniques
• Behavioral therapy targeting school behavior and academic performance
• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in youth’s natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of youth (i.e. family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
• Collaboration and partnership with community agencies
• Previous work providing in home or community based therapy services

About Us:

For 200 years, JCCA has sustained its mission of serving vulnerable children and families in need throughout New York. JCCA is one of the oldest, most distinguished child and family service organizations in the nation, with a reputation and name recognition that is widely-known.

Our programs include foster and residential care, educational assistance and remediation, case management for young people with mental health challenges and services to families to prevent child abuse and maltreatment. JCCA offers safety, stability and lifesaving support to help our clients transform their lives.

 JCCA offers a collaborative work environment where interdisciplinary teams foster one another’s professional growth through peer learning and support. Intensive staff supervision and trainings are the foundation for the provision of the highest quality mental health and child welfare services to children and families.

BENEFITS

JCCA offers a highly competitive and comprehensive benefits package for our employees and their families. Our benefits coverage includes medical, dental and vision insurance, a prescription-drug plan, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, generous paid time-off, tuition reimbursement and retirement savings options.

JCCA complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which JCCA has facilities.  Visit our website: www.jccany.org