Mental Health Supervisor, MST

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Counseling, Psychology, Social Work, or related subject area required
• Full, unrestricted license as LPC, LCSW, or LMFT strongly preferred
• Provisional license considered dependent on completed supervised hours and years’ experience in MST
• Minimum 1 year serving as MST Therapist required
• Valid Texas driver’s license and must have reliable transportation to provide community-based interventions
• Bilingual in Spanish and English highly preferred

Other Preferred Experience

• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies
• Treatment of children and adults using cognitive behavioral techniques
• Couples therapy using behaviorally based approaches
• 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
• Time management skills and ability to actively participate in all MST training, supervision, consultation, and development activities
• Organizational skills to effectively manage high need/acute caseload and adhere to crisis procedures
• Strong skills in conceptualization of family dynamics and problem behaviors within the ecological contexts of youth
• Skilled in active change-management treatment and practices
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Ability to collaborate with a large stakeholder system and other community agencies
• Knowledge of community mental health system of care and CCBHC
• Knowledge in theories and applications of: family systems, social ecological theory, behavioral therapies, CBT, pragmatic family therapies, child development research and its application in treatment, social skills assessment and intervention

Pay

$41.35 Hourly