Agincourt Community Services Association is a Non-Profit, multi service agency in the heart of Scarborough addressing needs and empowering children, youth newcomers and underserved communities to build a better tomorrow. We provide a range of social services and community engagement projects to the local community and a greater geographic area of Scarborough that includes several of the United Way high priority neighbourhoods. Our main activities include community supports, child and family programs, youth drop-in, young men's and women's programs, Youth Outreach Workers, homeless services, food security programs, community development work, and an information and referral services. 

ACSA is seeking an individual with strong mental health clinical training and experience to lead a team of 4 therapists in implementing Multisystemic Therapy (MST). MST is a well-researched community-based treatment model directed at youth involved in criminal activity and their family. Interested persons may locate information about this treatment model on the internet at www.mstservices.com . Duties include liaison with key collaborating agencies, providing ongoing evaluation and staff development for therapists, interfacing with MST expert consultants and providing overall program management. The Supervisor must also be able to support therapists implementing MST 24-hour per day, 7 days per week with backup from other agency supervisor staff. Specific experience in Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Structural Family Therapy, Strategic Family Therapy and behaviorally-based marital and drug treatment therapy preferred. 2-3 years of clinical supervisory-level experience preferred.

MST Job Description

Education

Masters or equivalent experience in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area is required. Persons with a related master’s degree and significant clinical experience in treating serious antisocial behavior in youth and significant supervisory experience may also qualify at the discretion of the agency. 

Preferred Experience

Direct use of pragmatic (i.e. structural, strategic and functional) family therapies

Individual therapy with children and adults using cognitive behavioral techniques

Marital therapy using behaviorally-based approaches

Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of youth (i.e. family, peer, school and neighbourhood)

Provision of group and individual clinical supervision

Preferred Knowledge

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

Job Responsibilities

Conduct weekly group supervision for MST team to assure adherence to MST principles and the MST analytic process.

Conduct individual supervision as needed to target clinician competency needs and to remove individual barriers to effective implementation of MST treatment.

Assure appropriate documentation of clinical effort to allow for peer and supervisory input, and to meet all reporting and communication needs of funding and referral sources. 

Provide supportive and corrective feedback to clinicians to promote client outcomes.

Provide administrative support targeting systemic barriers to treatment success. 

Assure availability of clinical and administrative support to clinicians 24hour, 7 day, 7 days/week.

Assure therapist accessibility to clients when needed at times most likely to promote engagement.

Assure that clinicians achieve engagement with all key participants.

Provide direct clinical training to assure clinical competency in all clinical areas relating to the implementation of MST interventions.

Assure that all assessments are compressive, multisystemic, and provide adequate information to determine the causes and correlates of referral behaviours to direct effective treatment within the ecological context. 

Please apply BY EMAIL ONLY to:

QUOTE: JOB APPLICATION – MST MANAGER 

Interviews: First and second week of January (two interviews required)

Start Date: Early February