Community Based Mental Health Professional

Do you have a passion for working with children and families? We are looking for compassionate, dedicated professionals in the Hall County, GA area 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.

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

Masters Degree Required.

Must possess a valid driver’s license and have reliable transportation to travel to client’s homes and possibly transport multiple clients at once.

Must live within a 30- to 45-minute travel time from the designated service area.

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.

Benefits include health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), a flexible schedule, paid time off, small caseloads of 5 to 6 clients at a time.

• Rewarding Work: Make a meaningful impact by working with youth and their families, utilizing an evidenced-based treatment approach.
• Flexible Schedule: Enjoy the flexibility of scheduling sessions around the needs of the families.
• Empowerment: Equip and empower youth and caregivers with the tools and resources to successfully address and tackle the difficulties and challenges