Therapist

• Engage emerging adults, caregivers, family members, and other identified natural supports in active, change-oriented treatment by identifying and addressing barriers to engagement.

• Develop and maintain individualized, trauma-informed, strengths-based, and culturally responsive treatment plans in collaboration with the emerging adult and their identified support network.

• Conduct ongoing safety and risk assessments and develop, implement, and update comprehensive safety plans as clinically indicated.

• Participate in the program's on call coverage structure to provide clinical support to emerging adults and their identified support networks outside of regular business hours, including evenings and weekends, as required by the MST-EA model.

• Maintain flexibility in scheduling to meet the needs of emerging adults and their support networks. This position requires home and community-based services and may include evenings, weekends, and other nontraditional hours based on clinical need and MST-EA model expectations.

• Utilize the MST Analytic Process to guide problem conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention development and implementation, outcome monitoring, and ongoing revision of treatment strategies.

• Provide intensive home and community-based treatment, generally three to four contacts per week, or at the frequency determined by the MST-EA Supervisor and Consultant based on clinical need and model expectations.

• Provide direct clinical interventions consistent with MST-EA principles and practices and the clinician's professional scope of practice.

• Maintain timely, clear, accurate, and clinically appropriate documentation of assessments, treatment interventions, client progress, collateral contacts, safety planning, and other required services in accordance with agency policy, regulatory requirements, and MST-EA standards.

• Ensure documentation and clinical practice demonstrate adherence to the nine MST Principles and the MST Analytic Process and support ongoing supervisory, consultation, and quality assurance review.

• Collaborate with relevant systems and key participants, including family and natural supports, residential programs, behavioral health providers, schools, employers, child welfare partners, legal systems, and other community-based providers, as applicable, to maintain alignment throughout treatment.

• Coordinate with Cedar Knolls House and Kaplan House prior to and throughout the emerging adult's transition from residential placement to support continuity of care and successful community reintegration.

• As program needs require, provide clinical support within Cedar Knolls House and Kaplan House, including assisting with Integrated Treatment Model (ITM) implementation, skills reinforcement, group or individual clinical interventions, and other clinical services consistent with the clinician's scope of practice.

• Participate in all required MST-EA training, weekly supervision, consultation, therapist development activities, fidelity monitoring, and ongoing quality assurance processes.

• Participate in weekly program team meetings, case conferences, high-risk reviews, and other clinical or administrative meetings as required.

• Monitor client progress throughout treatment and coordinate transition and discharge planning with the emerging adult, natural supports, residential team, and other involved systems.

• Administer urine drug screens when clinically indicated and permitted by program policy to support assessment and monitoring of substance use and treatment progress.

• Complete other clinical and program responsibilities as assigned and consistent with the scope and needs of the MST-EA program.

CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:

Commitment to recovery-oriented trauma-informed practice Embraces youth-guided family-driven care Promotes teamwork Takes initiative Liaise between department staff and middle managers/administration Good interpersonal communication and collaboration skills Solution Focused Uses Data to Inform & Guide Practice Values and Demonstrates Cultural Competency Values professional development and participation in clinical supervision and training