Hybrid MST Therapist

at Spring by Action for Children

• Job title: MST Therapist
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £38,800 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Manchester, United Kingdom

About the role

• MST Therapist delivering intensive home and community-based therapy to families in Manchester. Engaging caregivers to address adolescent behavioral issues with targeted interventions.

Responsibilities

• As an MST Therapist, you'll work flexibly around the needs of the family to a clinical model (training will be provided on the MST model).
• You will engage and motivate care givers into changing their child's behavioural problems and increase their skill and ability to manage future problems.
• You will assess the families' needs and identify the priorities for you as a therapist to work with them on.
• Therapists visit families regularly in their home or place of convenience to address and work through issues and work collaboratively with other agencies and professionals to co-design interventions consistent with the MST model.
• We are committed to supporting our team of therapists and will offer you continued professional development through both internal and external training.
• You will also receive full training in the MST model when you join, as well as receive quarterly booster training from an MST expert.

Requirements

• Educated to degree level as a minimum, preferably within a related subject such as Social Work, CBT, Probation Services, Youth Work, nursing, speech and language, A professional qualification in a related subject (desirable).
• Experience of working with adults, parents, adolescents, and families in challenging environments.
• Skills in delivering programmes of work to families and adolescents, preferably parenting interventions, and an ability to take clinical direction and feedback from the team supervisor.
• The ability to plan and predict problems and devise evidence-based interventions and evaluate them.
• Strong communication and engagement skills to help care givers to changing their child's behavioural problems.
• Access to transport is essential to travel across the County including remote locations.

Benefits

• Paid annual leave.
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.