Open Rank Adolescent Behavioral Health Therapist (MST) (Entry – Senior)

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department: Psychiatry - Addiction Research & Treatment Services (ARTS) – Synergy

Job Title: Open Rank Adolescent Behavioral Health Therapist (MST) (Entry – Senior)

Position: #00844864 – Requisition: #38860

Job Summary:

Synergy, the adolescent component of Addiction Research and Treatment Services, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, seeks to fill a full-time (1.0 FTE) Adolescent Behavioral Health Therapist position in a community-based substance use treatment program. The therapist will be delivering an evidenced-based family therapy model called Multisystemic Therapy (MST). MST is an evidenced-based model with the largest body of evidence of successful interventions for high-risk youth and has been recognized as a highly effective treatment by NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) and NIH (National Institute of Health). The model is present focused/action-oriented and focuses on strength-based, preventive strategies within the youth’s natural ecology targeting family, peers, school, and neighborhood support systems.  

This is an amazing opportunity to receive comprehensive training in the MST model. The Adolescent Behavioral Health Therapist will implement this community-based treatment by providing MST to families of adolescent substance misusers with a goal to retain youth in their homes and avoid out-of-home placement and involvement in the criminal justice system. This position will utilize the MST principals to develop interventions with the input and support of their supervisor and MST consultant. The implementation of this clinical model requires adherence and fidelity to the MST model, which the supervisor and MST consultant help guide. This position works independently but always has the support of their supervisor and has flexibility with their schedule as they schedule their own therapy appointments based on the family’s availability. The therapist is very well supported through weekly group supervision and consultation, in addition to individual supervision occurring weekly to every two weeks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide intensive treatment services using Multisystemic Therapy principles to a caseload of 6 active MST clients, which include daily contact via individual and family counseling, case management, staffing, advocacy, etc. in their home environment and community.

• Provide home-based family therapy twice weekly utilizing the MST treatment model. Therapists may also participate in school meetings, staffing and court; these activities also require driving.

• Available to clients and their families Monday through Friday, 24 hours a day via cell phone and participate in a weekend on-call coverage rotation.

• Provide transition services to clients when they leave other formal residential/day treatment programs.

• Complete all documentation (session notes, CM notes, GRRS evaluations, monthly reports, treatment plans, DACODS) by established deadlines.

• Provide clinical evaluations and/or intake screenings to assess clinical appropriateness, individual treatment needs, and recommendations.