Therapist MST

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Job Location

Newark MST - Essex/Hudson (NJ) - Secaucus, NJ

Position Type

Full Time

Education Level

Bachelors Degree

Travel Percentage

Up to 50%

Job Shift

Various Shift Hours

Therapist, MST sought to join our team in the Secaucus New Jersey area to provide community based treatment for youth and family with complex clinical, social and educational problems. Over a period of 4 - 6 months services are delivered in homes, neighborhoods, schools and communities. Emphasis is on promoting behavioral change in the youth’s natural environment. Family interventions seek to promote the parent’s capacity to monitor and discipline the adolescent. Initial family sessions identify the strengths and weaknesses of the youth, his family, peers, school, and other factors. Problems throughout the family are explicitly identified for change, and the strengths of each system are used to facilitate such change.

Community Solutions Inc. (CSI) is a nonprofit organization that promotes the responsible citizenship, accountability, and well-being of individuals and families involved, or at risk of involvement, in the child welfare, juvenile justice, or criminal justice system. Since CSI’s founding in 1962, it has been a pioneer in the community-based service. We have been delivering supervision, treatment, and comprehensive individualized services to help clients interact more effectively in their communities and become productive citizens. Using this plan we built the first ever halfway house in New England which has now been replicated and grown to almost 50 programs in 10 states. For over 50 years, CSI has been building upon its successful foundations and has been expanding its services to serve thousands of adults, youth, and families each year.

As a Therapist 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 therapists do whatever it takes, via close collaboration with all involved, to address the needs of juveniles with serious criminal offenses, including and, in some cases, substance abuse.

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 intensive interventions such as skill building, changing unhelpful family interactions, and increasing social support, to name a few. For more information on Multisystemic Therapy, please watch this video:

How Does MST Work?

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 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

Bachelor’s degree in clinical or counseling psychology, social work, criminal justice, or related subject areas with minimum of three years of experience working with family and/or youth services required .

Master’s degree is preferred for the position.

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.

COVID19 vaccinated or have an approved exemption from vaccination with a weekly testing requirement

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

Benefits

CSI offers great benefits which include:

Two (2) weeks’ vacation accrued within the first year, bumped to three (3) weeks accrual after 1 year of service.

Sick time (7 days accrual basis), floating holiday time (4 days/year).

Medical and Dental plans.

Voluntary plan options for: Vision, FSA, voluntary STD, Accident, Hospital, Life insurance and AD&D.

401(k) Retirement savings plan with automatic enrollment and a company match of 100% up to 4% of your contribution.

Clinical supervision reimbursement after 1 year of service

Tuition reimbursement after 1 year service.

Ongoing training

CSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Disability/Vet. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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Community Solutions, Inc