Are you passionate about building therapists’ skills and helping change the lives of families and children in the community? StarCare Specialty Health System is looking for a dedicated and courageous leader with strong mental health clinical training to supervise and lead a team of 2-4 therapists in implementing Multisystemic Therapy (MST) in StarCare’s service area as the MST Clinical Manager. Supervisory and leadership experience is preferred.
MST is a well-researched community-based treatment model directed at youth involved in criminal activity and their families. For more information on Multisystemic Therapy, visit MST’s website: www.mstservices.com.
Responsibilities:
- clinical and administrative supervision for therapists on team
- liaison with key collaborating agencies and with leadership inside the provider organization
- ongoing training
- staff development
- evaluation for therapists
- collaboration with MST expert consultants.
Essential Duties:
- With backup from other agency supervisory staff, the supervisor will be required to provide on-call support to therapists implementing MST.
Schedule: This is a full-time/exempt position scheduled Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm, with flexibility to meet the needs of the department. Must participate in 24/7 on-call rotation that includes weekends and after hours.
Benefit Package: StarCare offers an expansive benefit package including, but not limited to: Company-paid medical coverage, fully funded employer contribution to HSA, company-paid life insurance, company paid hospital indemnity plan, retirement plan with up to 12% employer match, front loaded paid time off (PTO), thirteen (13) paid holidays, sabbatical leave, longevity augmentations, and employee referral augmentations.
Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area
- Professional licensure in Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC); Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) field preferred or provisional license with 2 years of full time experience in related field.
*Note: applicants are expected to have experience and knowledge in many of the areas listed below but are NOT expected to have experience and knowledge in all of them.
Preferred Experience*
- Significant clinical experience in treating serious antisocial behavior in youth
- Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s environment that affect or influence the behavior of youth (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
- Leadership role (informal or formal) including hiring, performance evaluation, and holding supervisees accountable for performance
- Training and collaboration with outside agencies
- Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies
- Individual therapy with adolescents and adults using cognitive behavioral techniques
- Marital therapy using behaviorally based approaches
- Behavioral therapy targeting school behavior and academic performance
- Provision of group and individual clinical supervision
Preferred Knowledge:
- Family systems theory and application
- Social ecological theory and application
- Behavioral therapies theory and application
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy theory and application
- Pragmatic family therapies theory and application
- Child development research and its application in treatment
- Social skills assessment and intervention
Additional Requirements:
- Must pass a pre-hire drug screen and criminal background check.
- Must have a Texas driver's license, liability auto insurance, and be insurable under the Agency's insurance.