| Name of Organization: | Catholic Charities of Buffalo |
| Job Title: | Multisystemic Therapist (MST) |
| Part-time or Full-time: | Full-time |
| Job Location: | 930 Genesee St and in clients homes |
| Job Description: | Join Catholic Charities of Buffalo as a Community-Based MST Therapist and become part of a diverse team dedicated to our mission of inclusivity, compassion, and empowerment. We are looking for compassionate individuals in Erie and Niagara Counties to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends. You will receive ongoing team support, training, and supervision in the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) model as you work holistically with families, youth, their communities, and other key members of their ecology to implement MST. Extensive research has proven the effectiveness of MST. MST therapists work in close collaboration with all involved to address the needs of youth who engage in problematic and criminal behaviors, and, in some cases, substance abuse. You will empower families to address problematic behaviors and to help their youth ages 11 - 17 make life-transforming changes. Treatment progress is made through intensive interventions such as changing unhelpful family interactions, addressing the youth's problems with peers and in school, and increasing social support, to name a few. |
| Required Qualifications: | Master's degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area preferred, or a bachelor's degree with experience working with family and/or youth services will be considered. New master's level graduates are encouraged to apply. As responsibilities require travel, must have appropriate and reliable transportation, and an agency-required level of auto insurance coverage and be able to travel as needed within the eight-county WNY region. The selected candidate will travel to, and serve families, in both Erie County and Niagara County Must be prepared to work a flexible schedule to participate in agency-related activities/events that may take place outside of typical business hours. |
| Preferred Qualifications: | 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 |
| Rate of Pay: | 48,000-52,000 per year |
| How to Apply: | https://ccwny.applicantpro.com/jobs/3705811 |
| Contact: | alexandra.samsonik@ccwny.org |
