Youth Therapist (MST-PSB)

Responsibilities

• Provide MST-PSB services to a caseload of 3-5 individuals and families in community settings, including clients’ homes, schools, and neighborhoods.
• Actively work to ensure client, victim, and community safety through the development, implementation, monitoring, and ongoing revision of a comprehensive individualized safety plan for each client/family served.
• Engage the primary caregiver and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement.
• Actively provide family therapy, parent training, cognitive behavioral therapy, skills building, school and other community system interventions, and clarification work to each client/family served with a high degree of intensity and frequency (i.e. often three or more sessions per week).
• Implement a problem conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention implementation, outcome review, and strategy revision procedure using the MST Analytic Process.
• 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.
• Be available to provide services at times convenient to the family, including evenings and weekends.
• Maintain fidelity to MST-PSB guiding principles and fidelity standards.
• Actively participate in weekly group supervision and weekly phone consultation; participate in individual supervision as directed/requested.
• Be available to provide 24/7 crisis response services as directed.
• Actively coordinate services with all team members (including representatives from Juvenile Probation, Department of Human Services, Family Court, victim’s therapist/advocate, other providers, and community programs) to ensure their buy-in and cooperation throughout MST treatment.
• Appear/testify in court as directed for each client served.
• Conduct problem conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention implementation, outcome review, and strategy revision procedure using the MST Analytic Process.
• Complete and submit all paperwork, forms, reports, etc. within program-identified timeframes and according to professional standards.
• Participate in regular meetings with staff to ensure priorities are clear, coordination is effective, and communications are open.
• Develop additional methods for ongoing effective communication.
• Cooperate and communicate as a multidisciplinary staff team member through formal meetings, informal consultations, and committee participation.
• Model traits of a responsible team member by executing job responsibilities, open communication, and good follow-through.
• Respond promptly to the concerns and interests of the clients, parents, guardians, funding entities, and other PHMC staff.
• Exhibiting Trauma-Informed Values

Qualifications

• Required Master’s degree in social work, psychology, counseling, marriage and family therapy, or another human services field required.
• At least two years of verified experience in the mental health field.
• Valid driver’s license, daily access to a reliable vehicle with current registration, and evidence of automotive insurance coverage required.

Skills

• Knowledge and understanding of adolescent problem sexual behaviors, including systemic factors that contribute to problematic behaviors.
• Strong safety management skills, including the ability to develop, implement, and monitor effective safety plans.
• Ability to utilize a collaborative, team-oriented approach.
• Social/ecological theory and application.
• Family systems theory and application.
• Cognitive-behavioral theory and clinical application.
• Understanding of child and family development.
• Crisis intervention and management.
• Knowledge of DSM-V diagnoses.
• Basic knowledge/understanding of common psychotropic medications.
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse populations.
• Strong computer skills in all Microsoft Office applications.

Clearances

• Valid child abuse, PA criminal record check, FBI, and medical clearances, as well as any other clearances required by contract or agency policy.