- Provides community resource expertise to Child First team and families, including identifying and collaborating with community-based service providers and supports.
- Engages with the Child First family and the Clinician in the collaborative family assessment process (i.e., use data from interviews, observations, interactions, and standardized measures to identify family strengths, needs, and challenges).
- Promotes family stabilization by identifying all needed and desired services, integrating service needs into the Child and Family Plan of Care, and addressing barriers to services as they arise.
- Averts crisis situations by assisting Child First family in times of urgent need (e.g., eviction).
- Enhances caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g., planning, organizing, managing time, focusing attention, regulating emotions, reflecting on progress) as needed and in consultation with the Clinician and Clinical Director.
- Maintains a reflective lens when engaging with the caregiver, in order to understand his/her motivation, needs, and possible barriers to new services and supports.
- Collaborates closely with Child First Clinician to meet the needs of Child First families.
- Embraces use of videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reflective clinical supervision.
- Provides identified child and/or other children in the family with an interactive, growth-promoting play experience.
- Engages in weekly individual, Team, and group reflective clinical supervision with Clinical Director.
- Engages actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative, including in-person trainings, distance learning curriculum, and specialty trainings.
- Tracks completion of all assessments and enter into the appropriate database.
- Keeps all appropriate documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement.
- Participates in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate.I
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in child development, psychology, nursing, human services, or related field from accredited institution.
Skills/Experience:
- A minimum of three years working with culturally diverse families and young children under the age of six years.
- Openness to learning, capacity for self-reflection, and eagerness to participate in reflective clinical supervision.
- Knowledge of early childhood development, parent education, parent-child relationships, and individual, family, and community-level risk factors (e.g., poverty, homelessness, maternal depression, domestic violence, substance abuse, teen parenthood).
- Knowledge of and experience with community-based services and supports in service area, highly valued.
- Experience working in home and community-based settings with vulnerable populations of diverse cultures and ethnicities.
- Able to speak a second language (Spanish, Portuguese, Creole, other), highly valued.
- Strong commitment to the vision, mission, and goals of Child First.
- Highly organized, self-motivated, reliable, and flexible (including willingness to work non-traditional hours, including evenings and weekends).
- Eager and able to work as part of a team.
- Able to communicate well verbally and in writing.
- Comfortable with computers and experienced with Word and Excel.
- Reliable vehicle and appropriate insurance for home visits.
- Possesses excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Ability and desire to be a team player.
- Intermediate to advance typing skills.
- Current, unrestricted, state-appropriate driver’s license and personal vehicle insurance.
Compensation/Benefits:
- Paid time off and health benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Mileage reimbursement
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jan 3 2018
Active Until:
Feb 3 2018
Hiring Organization:
Easterseals
industry:
Nonprofit