Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Do you have a passion for working with children and families? We are looking for a compassionate MST Coach in New York City who want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends. For more information, please read below.

About the Position:

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 Coaches do whatever it takes, via close collaboration with all involved, to address the needs of adolescents returning from residential placement for mental health, trauma and, in some cases, substance abuse. You will empower families to address challenging and/or problematic behavior and to help youth aged 12 - 21 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.

Location : 150 Beach 110 St, Rockaway Park, New York 11694

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 (school, outpatient mental health providers, residential case planners and line staff, child welfare, community stakeholders )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

Master's in Social Work (or related) preferred.

• Spanish speaking preferred.
• Willingness to travel throughout New York City required. Driver’s License required with valid New York driver’s license.

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  

Salary: $47,500 - 53,000

Benefits:

• Medical 
• Dental 
• Vision 
• 403B Retirement Plan
• FSA
• Up to 3 weeks of paid vacation per year! 
• Access to our state-of-the-art training institute! 

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 15 years, EBA has served multiple states and counties in the areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, and behavioral health.

Our project support services address common implementation questions and concerns, such as:
• System Assessment: what are the gaps or needs in your current service system?
• Readiness Support: how do we get providers and stakeholders ready for EBPs?
• Program Implementation: how do we ensure we are implementing with high fidelity?
• Service Coordination: how do we make sure we’re matching the right service at the right time for the right children, youth, and family members?

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.

“EBA offers a full-range of implementation supports for FFPSA!”

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