Bilingual Mental Health Professional

Evidence Based Associates; Temple (TX); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Generous Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Volunteer Time Off

Retirement Plan with Employer Match

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible Spending Account

Job summary

Empower Community Care seeks a compassionate MST therapist to work with youth aged 12–17 and their families. You will deliver Multisystemic Therapy in clients’ homes and collaborate with schools, probation, and child welfare to implement evidence-based interventions.

The role combines in-home and remote work, requiring local travel and cooperation with a multidisciplinary team to empower families and improve behavioral outcomes.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in clinical or counseling psychology, social work, or related field; provisional licensure required.
• Bi-lingual in English and Spanish preferred.
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation to travel to client homes.
• Must live within 30–45 minutes travel time from the designated service area.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical treatment using the MST model and principles.
• Conduct thorough assessment of the client and family to inform conceptualization of problems.
• Engage primary caregivers, family members, supports, and community staff in change-oriented treatment.
• Dedicate time to weekly case planning and evaluation with supervision and team support.
• Ensure 24/7 accessibility to clients when needed.

Skills

Bilingual English/Spanish

Driver's license

Reliable transportation

Location within 30–45 minutes

Education

Master’s degree in clinical or counseling psychology / social work

Job description

This is a remote/hybrid role, and candidates must be local.
It requires 2-3 days a week to work in the community in clients homes and 2-3 days a week to work remotely with a company issued laptop.

Overview

Do you have a passion for working with children and families? We arelooking for compassionate, dedicated people inwho want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends.

You will receive ongoing training in the Multisystemic Therapy(MST)model as you work with families, youth, their communities, and other key members of their ecology to implement MST as designed. Extensive research has proven the effectiveness of MST.MST therapists do whatever it takes, via close collaboration with all involved, to address the needs of juveniles with criminal offenses, including, in some cases, substance abuse.You will empower families to address challenging and/or problematic behavior and to help youth aged 12 - 17 make life-transforming changes. Treatment progress is made through intensive interventions such as skill building, changing unhelpful family interactions, and increasing social support, to name a few. For more information on Multisystemic Therapy, please watch this video: How Does MST Work?

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical treatment using the MST treatment model and principles. Some principles include leveraging strengths and focusing on the positive, understanding sequences of behavior, and increasing mature behavior.
• Conduct a thorough assessment of the client and family: gather information on behaviors of concern and strengths in the family and their ecology to inform conceptualization of the problem behaviors and interactions within the family’s ecological context.
• Comfort working with a diverse community of clients.
• Knowledge of the types of families in the community
• Continuously work to engage the primary caregiver, family members, supports, and community agency staff(school, probation, child welfare)in change-oriented treatment.
• Dedicate time to weekly case planning and evaluation of case progress, with ongoing support from your supervisor and team members.
• Receive regular training, professional development, supervision, and consultation activities designed to help you acquire extensive clinical skills within the MST treatment model.
• Assure, along with fellow clinicians, that clients have access to 24 hours/day, 7 days/week support as needed.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area required , provisional licensure at minimum required.
• Bi-lingual in English and Spanish preferred.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license and have reliable transportation to travel to client’s homes and possibly transport multiple clients at once.
• Must live within a30 –45-minutetravel time from the designated service area.

Preferred Experience:

• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies
• Therapy with children and adults using cognitive-behavioral techniques.
• Couples therapy usingbehaviorally basedapproaches.
• 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.

Benefits

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off - 9.23 hrs per pay period
• 10 Observed Company Paid Holidays
• 8 Hours Annual Volunteer Time Off
• Retirement Plan w/ Employer Match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Account
  

Equal Employment Opportunity

Empower Community Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.