Clinical Therapist for Emerging Adults

Bronx, NY
Full Time
Mid Level

Multisystemic Therapist - Emerging Adults

POSITION OVERVIEW:

· Support emerging adults in their transition from group residential foster care into independent living with a minimum of disruptions and reduce the risk of emerging adults requiring further systemic involvement and placement.

· Eliminate or significantly reduce the frequency and intensity of the emerging adult’s referral concerns in mental health, educational/vocational, interpersonal, and behavioral domains.

· Empower the emerging adult and their social network with the skills and resources needed to independently address the difficulties that arise in independent living, and to empower the emerging adult to overcome family, peer, school, employment, and community concerns.

· The group residence programs served by MST-EA (Cedar Knolls House and Kaplan House) serve transition aged youth displaying a wide range of behaviors including psychiatric diagnoses, trauma and loss, and related family/behavioral issues. The target for MST-EA focuses on transition age youth, 17 to 26 years old, transitioning from the group residence into the community. Program works with the emerging adult from up to 2 months prior to discharge up to 10 months post-discharge to support the successful reintegration back to the community and social network.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

· Conduct mental status exams with clients (as needed).

· Conduct MST assessment 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(s) and/or other key social network members in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement.

· Develop trauma-informed, strength-based, and culturally-competent treatment plans in collaboration with the client and his/her social network.

· Ensure client and social network safety by conducting regular safety assessments and developing comprehensive safety plans.

· Be available and on call to provide clinical support to participants and their family of care.

· Implement initial case conceptualization, treatment planning, collaborative goal setting, intervention implementation, outcomes review, and strategy revision procedure using the MST Analytic Process.

· Facilitate home- and community-based treatment with clients 2-3 times per week per client for four clients.

· Maintain clear and concise weekly case summaries that promote peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrate compliance with the nine MST Principles and the MST Analytic Process.

· Ability to 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 all MST training, supervision, consultation, MST Therapist development activities, and ongoing MST-EA quality assurance system.

· Engaging in weekly program team meetings/case conferences/high-risk meetings.

· Oversee client progress and ensure proper discharge planning.

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIRED:

Master’s degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area required and a license in a counseling field (LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LCAT, etc); limited permit/provisional licenses will be considered.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED/LANGUAGE PREFERENCE:

· Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic and functional) family therapies

· Therapy with children and adults using cognitive behavioral techniques

· Motivational Interviewing skills targeting therapeutic engagement and commitment to change

· Behavioral therapy targeting school behavior and academic performance

· Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of the youth (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)

· Collaboration and partnership with community agencies

· Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services

· Bilingual-Spanish preferred


SALARY:  $60,000 - $68,000 (depending on experience, bilingual differential, etc.)

BENEFITS:

  • 403B Retirement Plan
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • Earn CEU's at no cost to you!
  • Clinical supervision
 

WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL EFFORT

· The majority of services are provided in the community, with less time spent in office-based work

· While the offices of the Jewish Board are accessible in accordance with the ADA, the sites to which staff may need to travel may or may not be

· To perform the essential functions of this job the candidate must be able to travel within New York City carrying equipment such as a notebook, forms, laptop, and cell phone weighing up to approximately 10 pounds.

· To perform the essential functions of this job, the candidate is routinely required to sit (60% of the time) and stand (20% of the time), and travel to and from appointments using public or private transportation options (20% of the time).

· Risks/hazards associated with the position are those which may be encountered traveling around New York City.


















 

EBA’s mission is to support families and strengthen communities through the high-quality implementation of evidence-based programs (EBPs). As a ‘production company’, we focus on the implementation issues back stage so that EBPs and community-based providers can be the ‘stars’ on stage. Over the past 20 years, EBA has served multiple states and counties in the areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, and behavioral health.

EBA offers a team of professionals with backgrounds in social services, juvenile justice, evidence-based programs, information technology and human resources. EBA’s interdisciplinary team brings a combined total of more than 150 years of experience in clinical services and program management related to community-based and evidence-based programs.

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