Hybrid Therapist

Make a bigger difference


MST- FIT Therapist

At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you’ll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
• We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.

• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.

• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.

• You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.


How you can make a bigger difference:

PURPOSE:
The Jewish Board community residence programs (Holland Avenue, Bruner House, Westchester Ave, Staten Island) serve youth displaying a wide range of behaviors including psychiatric diagnoses, trauma and loss, and related family/behavioral issues.  The target for MST-FIT focuses on youth, 12 to 17 ½  years old, transitioning from the community residence back to home (as defined by caregivers or referral source).  Program works with the family from 2 months prior to discharge until 4 months post discharge to support the family to successfully reintegrate the youth home.

POSITION OVERVIEW:
Primary goals of MST-FIT treatment:
• Transition youth from residential facilities back to their natural environment with a minimum of disruptions and reduce risk of youth being placed again.
• Eliminate or significantly reduce the frequency and severity of the youth’s referral behavior(s);
• Empower parents with the skills and resources needed to independently address the inevitable difficulties that arise in raising children and adolescents, and to empower youth to cope with family, peer, school, and neighborhood problems.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Conduct MST assessment including review of referral information, identifying, and engaging key participants, identifying systemic strengths and weaknesses, and developing an analysis of the fit of problem behaviors within the ecological context.
• Engage primary caregiver and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement.
• Be available and on call 24/7 to provide clinical support to participants and their family of care.
• Implement a problem conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention implementation, outcomes review and strategy revision procedure using the MST Analytic Process.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment efforts that promote peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrate compliance with the nine MST Principles and the MST Analytic Process.
• Ability to engage and collaborate with all relevant systems and key participants within each system, to maintain alignment throughout MST treatment.
• Provide direct clinical treatment using methods compatible with MST principles and practices.
• Participate in all MST training, supervision, consultation, and MST Therapist development activities.
• Facilitate and Co-facilitate Integrated Treatment Model (ITM) DBT skill groups to youth in the community residences.

CORE COMPETENCIES:
• 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

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIRED:
• Master’s degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area required and a license in a counseling field (LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LCAT, etc); limited permit will be considered.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED/LANGUAGE PREFERENCE:
• Bilingual (English/ Spanish) Therapist preferred
• 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
• Behavioral therapy targeting school behavior and academic performance
• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of the youth (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
• Collaboration and partnership with community agencies
• Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services
• Professional licensure in related field preferred but not required

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED:
Prior experience with electronic health records and Microsoft Office

VISUAL AND MANUAL Dexterity:
• Travel in the community with residents utilizing agency vehicle
• Engage in physical activities with the residence
• Ability to read paper and electronic documents
• Ability to perform data entry into various computer programs as needed

WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL EFFORT
• The majority of services are provided in the community, with less time spent in office-based work
• While the offices of the Jewish Board are accessible in accordance with the ADA, the sites to which staff may need to travel may or may not be
• To perform the essential functions of this job the candidate must be able to travel within New York City carrying equipment such as a notebook, forms, laptop, mobile hotspot and cell phone weighing up to approximately 10 pounds.
• To perform the essential functions of this job, the candidate is routinely required to sit (60% of the time) and stand (20% of the time), and travel to and from appointments using public or private transportation options (20% of the time).
• Risks/hazards associated with the position are those which may be encountered traveling around New York City.

If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:
• Generous time off in addition to paid agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance

Who we are:
The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:


We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.