Basic Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
• Engage with children and families in their homes and community for therapy.
• Complete assessment process with families (i.e., gather information from interviews, observations of interactions and play, reviewed records, collateral sources, and standardized measures) through collaboration with teammate/partner.
• Use all available information to develop a thoughtful, well-integrated clinical formulation and Child and Family Plan of Care, in partnership with the family resource partner and family members.
• Provide Child First home-based psychotherapeutic intervention with young children and their caregivers using relational, dyadic psychotherapy (CPP) and other modalities.
• Help the caregiver gain insight regarding personal history (including trauma history), feelings for the child, and current parenting practices.
• Avert crisis situations by assisting the family in times of urgent need (e.g., risk of harm to child or caregiver, pending child removal), in consultation with the family resource partner and clinical supervisor.
• Provide mental health and developmental assessment and consultation within early care and education settings and to other early childhood providers.
• Embrace use of videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reflective supervision.
• Engage in weekly individual, Team, and group reflective clinical supervision.
• Engage actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative, including in-person trainings, distance learning curriculum, and specialty trainings.
• Keep all appropriate documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement.
• Provide on-call, crisis intervention services to clients on a rotating basis.
Incentives:
• Paid time off and health benefits
• Competitive salaries
• Mileage reimbursement
Qualifications:
• Graduated from an approved, accredited institution with a degree in human services or related field (Master’s or Doctoral level mental health provider).
• Hold an active, unrestricted license as an LCSW, LPC, LMFT, or LCAS (provisionally licensed individuals with substantial post-grad experience working with children and families, considered).
• Experience working with culturally diverse children and families, including parent-child therapeutic work and play therapy with very young children (0-5 years).
• Openness to learning, capacity for self-reflection, and eagerness to participate in reflective clinical supervision.
• Knowledge of early child development, parent-child relationships and attachment theory, effects of trauma and environmental risks on early childhood brain development; especially violence exposure, maternal depression, substance abuse, and risk factors (e.g., poverty, homelessness).
• Experience working with adults with mental health, substance use, and cognitive challenges.
• Experience providing intervention within diverse home and community settings.
• Ability to speak a second language (Spanish, Portuguese, Creole, other), highly valued.