Bilingual Child First Mental Health and Developmental Clinician

Savio House • Denver, CO

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About The Position

Join Savio House’s Child First team. Child First is an evidence-based, two-generation intervention for vulnerable young children from prenatal through age five and their families. It provides intensive, home-based services intended to decrease serious mental health problems, developmental and learning disabilities, and abuse and neglect. The model includes a psychotherapeutic dyadic intervention to strengthen the parent-child relationship and care coordination to connect families with needed services and supports.

The Child First Mental Health and Developmental Clinician partners with a Family Support Partner to engage families referred to the home-based intervention. The role focuses on strengthening the caregiver-child relationship as a protective buffer to stress and as a foundation for children’s emotional, language, and cognitive growth. The Clinician uses trauma-informed CPP, a relationship-based, dyadic parent-child treatment model focused on the young child’s primary attachment relationships. Through supportive, reflective, and exploratory engagement with caregivers and children, the Clinician fosters a protective, nurturing, and responsive parent-child relationship.

The therapeutic intervention helps caregivers understand typical developmental challenges and expectations, reflect on the meaning and feelings motivating a child’s behavior, strengthen problem-solving, and understand how parental feelings and history relate to their responses to the child. The Clinician also consults with teachers in early care and education settings as needed.

Requirements

• Master of Social Work (MSW) or another master’s degree in counseling, psychology, or a related field.
• Ability to register with DORA; LCSW, LPC, LMFT, or other licensure. Candidacy and NLC are also accepted.
• Bilingual in Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a Family Support Partner to engage families referred to the Child First home-based intervention.
• Provide trauma-informed, relationship-based, dyadic parent-child treatment focused on the young child’s primary attachment relationships.
• Foster protective, nurturing, and responsive parent-child relationships through supportive, reflective, and exploratory engagement with caregivers and children.
• Help caregivers understand typical developmental challenges and expectations.
• Increase caregivers’ ability to reflect on the meaning and feelings motivating a child’s behavior.
• Support caregivers’ problem-solving.
• Help caregivers understand the relationship between parental feelings, history, and their responses to the child.
• Provide consultation to teachers in early care and education settings as needed.

Benefits

• 10 paid holidays
• Vacation beginning at six months
• Sick time beginning on the first day of employment
• UHC medical insurance, with the employer paying 90% of individual employee medical coverage
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Pet insurance
• 403(b)
• HSA
• FSA
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employer-funded retirement plan
• CPR and First Aid training
• Clinical training and supervision
• Professional development
• Company-issued cell phone
• Opportunity for a performance increase at one year and annually thereafter

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time