Job Description

Bilingual (English/Spanish) language proficiency required. 

Overview 

Do you have a passion for working with children and their families? We are looking for compassionate, dedicated professionals who want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends. 

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 criminal offenses, including, 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. 
• Very comfortable 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, probation, child welfare) 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 Degree in Behavioral Science Field
• Experience in serving families in community based programs
• Ability and willingness to work with families in their own homes
• License/Certifications: Licensed by Texas Board of Social Work Examiners, LMSW, licensed by Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists, LMFT-Associate or licensed by the Texas State Board of Examiners for Licensed Professional Counselors, LPC-intern.
• Valid Texas driver’s license; maintain current insurance and registration; and have a clear driving record.
• A clear result from a criminal background check.
• Must live within one-hour travel time from the designated service area. 

Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision
Three health plan options, including coverage for services received from inside and outside network providers. Coverage starts the first of the month following hire date of full-time employment. Our health plan is a prescription drug program. Two dental options are offered, including a cost-saving, managed-care dental plan. Employees also can elect to have a Flexible Spending Account.

Paid Holidays
New Year’s Day, MLK birthday, Good Friday, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
If a designated holiday falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday will be recognized as the holiday. If the designated holiday falls on Sunday, the following Monday will be the designated holiday.

Retirement
The retirement program (401-a) is a voluntary program available after one year of employment. It offers a generous agency contribution of 8 percent with a 5 percent required employee contribution. A deferred compensation plan (457) is also offered.

Disability
Short-term/long-term disability is offered to all full-time staff. Employee term life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and spouse and dependent life insurance are also a tremendous plus to the benefit program.

Employee Assistance Program
Employees and their families are provided an Employee Assistance Program free of charge for short-term counseling and other support services.

Wellness Program
MHMR supports its employees to voluntarily participate in wellness initiatives year round. Incentives are awarded for various activities to help foster healthy lifestyles and save the agency and its employees health care costs over time. Onsite and online engagement is available. Healthcare coaching is also available year round.

Additional benefits:
Accrued Paid Time Off (PTO), 10 holidays and employee discounts such as gym membership, cell phones, computers and entertainment. MHMR is a participant in the Student Loan Forgiveness Program. 

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.

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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