Multi Systemic Therapy-Child Abuse & Neglect (MST-CAN) Supervisor

About the Organisation

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.   

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

The purpose of the MST-CAN Supervisor is to manage and support a team to conduct therapy and case management associated with Multi-Systemic Therapy (Child Abuse and Neglect).  The incumbent will ensure that the program is compliant to the funding requirements and all reporting is undertaken in line with the program outlines.   The role will undertake the program in a context of partnership and collaboration within the funding location. 

You can learn more about the MST-CAN program by following this link: https://www.mstservices.com/mst-can-child-welfare-program

An attractive remuneration package is offered as well as a tool of trade vehicle.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct weekly group supervision for MST-CAN team to assure adherence to MST Principles and the MST Analytic Process.
• Provide weekly summaries to MST CAN expert of Therapist and Case Worker Weekly Treatment Plans
• Conduct individual supervision as needed to target clinician competency needs and to remove individual barriers to effective implementation of MST-CAN treatment.
• Provide supportive and corrective feedback to clinicians to promote client outcomes through interventions such as enacting role play and practice, attending field visits with therapists, acting as co-therapist in sessions, listening to audio tapes of clinicians’ sessions, and providing feedback about clinicians’ performance.
• Manage planning, implementation, coordination and administration of the MST-CAN program.
• Manages matters relating to the recruitment, selection and induction of staff.  Ensures the efficient and effective use of physical and human resources within the MST-CAN team, including the monitoring of service standards.
• Ensure that each therapist has a  Professional Development Plan that is reviewed monthly and revised quarterly.
• 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.
• Assure that all assessments are comprehensive, multi-systemic, and provide adequate information to determine the causes and correlates of referral behaviours to direct effective treatment within the ecological context.
• Work with the Family Services Research Centre at the Medical University of South Carolina to ensure that all data for the TAM-CAN and required research measures are collected.
• Build a relationship with community stakeholders (i.e., child protection services, judges, schools, etc.) to ensure that there is a continuous stream of referrals and that customer satisfaction is high.
• Provide community stakeholders with update reports on client progress
• Collaborates with MST-CAN expert to provide feedback, resources, and training to all team members.
• Provides on call clinical back up 24/7 for therapists -Back-up on-call support will be provided to the Supervisor position.

 Skills & Experience

• Ph.D. or Master’s degree in clinical or counselling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area. 
• Registration or eligibility for registration with the relevant professional organisation/s
• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic and functional) family therapies
• Individual therapy with children and adults using cognitive behavioural techniques
• Marital therapy using behaviourally-based approaches or demonstrated experience working with couples
• Substance abuse treatment for adults and children using behaviourally-based approaches
• Behavioural therapy targeting behavioural change in children at home and school
• Trauma treatment for children and adults
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of theory for the following - Family Systems; Social Ecology; Behavioural Therapies; Pragmatic Family Therapies
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of Cognitive-behavioural therapy particularly in the areas of trauma treatment and anger management
• Family Problem Solving and Communication

 Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role). Mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations will be required for this position, in accordance with relevant Public Health Orders across all States and Territories. In these circumstances, evidence of vaccination will be required prior to an offer of employment.

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For those seeking a confidential discussion regarding this opportunity, please contact Ingrid Altena MST-CAN Supervisor, via email Ingrid.Altena2@lwb.org.au or 0436 673 644. For general enquiries, including persons with disability that require adjustments, please contact Zina Campbell recruitment@lwb.org.au.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.