BSFT MODEL Therapist for The Jewish Board, Queens. If you are passionate about serving youth and families in their homes, have superior interpersonal, & communication skills, desire to work in an environment with constructive oversight & focus on successful outcomes, we want you! We are seeking an individual with family-based clinical training and experience to implement Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT MODEL). BSFT MODEL is a top researched community-based intervention model to treat families with children and adolescents ages 6-17 who present with various conduct problems. The BSFT Model eliminates child/adolescent presenting problems by transforming maladaptive family interactions into constructive and supportive interactions. More information on this treatment model may be found here: http://www.BSFT Model.org/ Duties include assessment, treatment, documentation. Therapist will function as part of a BSFT MODEL team and will participate in weekly team supervision and consultation. Must be willing and able to work a flexible schedule based on families’ availability. Master's in psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling or related field required; Supervision offered to obtain clinical hours towards licensure and competitive benefits. If you want to impact change and do it effectively, if you want excellent training, licensure opportunities, effective and meaningful supervision, and to gain clinical experiences and skills, apply now!
Position: BSFT MODEL Therapist
Education Requirement: Master’s degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Counseling, Mental Health Counseling or a related subject area. Must be license eligible.
Preferred Experience:
· Work with families (grandparents, mothers, father figures [biological fathers, step-fathers and long-standing romantic partners], and children and adolescents)
· Family systems experience
· Experience with process-oriented family therapies
· Comfort in working with father figures
Preferred Knowledge:
· Family systems theory and application
· Social ecological theory and application
Job Responsibilities:
· Build and maintain a collaborative relationship with every family member that has or should have a relationship with the youth who has identified needs.
· Provide direct clinical treatment to the entire family using BSFT MODEL theory and techniques.
· As the leader of the therapeutic relationship, take responsibility for family progress and outcomes
· Build and maintain a collaborative relationship with relevant community stakeholders (i.e., child protection services, probation officers, judges, schools, etc.) to ensure cooperation among service providers
· Transform negative interactions into positive and collaborative interactions
· Focus on family strengths (defined from an interactional perspective). These are the connection, concern and love that are behind a family member’s negative behaviors.
· Videotape all family therapy sessions
· Conduct family therapy in a place and at the time that is most convenient to the family. Do not allow place or time to become a barrier to engagement of all family members, or to treatment.
· Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment efforts that promote peer, supervisory, model expert and ACS review and feedback.
· Entering the majority of the documentation in the OCFS and ACS Database System (PROMIS and CNNX)
· Collaborate with child welfare and follow ACS guidelines for preventive services, in particular the safety and risk aspects.
· Participate in all BSFT MODEL training, supervision and consultation activities
· Manage the extensive travel requirements involved in serving families in their homes
Preferred Core Competencies:
· Ability to connect at a human level with clients to engage and maintain them in therapy
· Ability to establish an effective and collaborative relationship with all family members, requiring the therapist to manage her/his own feelings about each family member.
· Outstanding interpersonal skills
· Willingness and ability to be strengths focused
· Ability to function in the context of high tension and anger in the family
· Ability to shift the family from content to process, from past and future discussions to interactions that occur in the present
· Ability to manage stress and self-care
· Appreciation, respect, and understanding for teamwork and organizational systems
· Ability to maintain high level of self-awareness
· Ability to observe the present- the interactions that occur in front of the therapist- as they occur.
· Ability to think abstractly to permit the therapist to observe family interactions, diagnose them on the spot and determine what intervention may be appropriate in the present.
· Ability to be comfortable with cultural differences; to relate in ways that are respectful, strength-focused, and culturally appropriate
· Ability to be family-centered, and to allow the family to interact. The therapist does not need to be the center of the therapy but rather places the family at the center of the therapy.
· Ability not to buy the family’s frame. Keep sufficient independence from the family to enable you to observe the family and come to your own conclusions based on what you see, rather than on what the family says.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $60,000.00 - $65,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Patient demographics:
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Children
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- On call
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Ability to Relocate:
- Rego Park, NY 11374: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Rego Park, NY 11374