About the position
The Child First model is an evidence-based, two-generation intervention that works with very vulnerable young children (prenatal through age 5 years) and their families, providing intensive, home-based services to decrease the incidence of serious mental health problems, developmental and learning disabilities, and abuse and neglect. Child First provides (1) a psychotherapeutic, dyadic intervention to strengthen the parent-child relationship, and (2) care coordination to connect the family to needed services and supports. Child First has been recognized as an evidence-based home visiting model by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program and rated “Effective” by the National Registry for Effective Programs and Practice (NREPP) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA).
Responsibilities
- Engage with the Child First family and the Family Support Partner in the collaborative family assessment process.
- Use all available information to develop a thoughtful, well-integrated clinical formulation and Child and Family Plan of Care.
- 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, feelings for the child, and current parenting practices.
- Avert crisis situations by assisting the family in times of urgent need.
- Provide mental health and developmental assessment and consultation within early care and education settings.
- Embrace use of videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reflective supervision.
- Engage in weekly individual, Team, and group reflective clinical supervision with Clinical Supervisor.
- Engage actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative.
- Keep all appropriate documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement.
- Participate in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate.
Requirements
- Licensed or licensed-eligible Master’s or Doctoral level mental health provider (e.g., LCSW, LMFT, LPC, MA, clinical psychologist, other).
- Experience working psychotherapeutically with culturally diverse children and families, including parent-child therapeutic work and play therapy with very young children (0-5 years), for a minimum of three years.
- Openness to learning, capacity for self-reflection, and eagerness to participate in reflective clinical supervision.
- Knowledge of relationship-based, psychodynamic intervention and early child development.
- Experience providing mental health assessment and consultation to early care and education sites.
- Knowledge and 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.
- Strong commitment to the vision, mission, and goals of Child First.
- Highly organized, self-motivated, reliable, and flexible.
- 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.
Benefits
- Career Development: You will receive $15,000 worth of formal training in Child-Parent Psychotherapy.
- Flexible Scheduling.
- 10 paid holidays.
- Vacation at 6 months.
- Sick time starts on first day of employment.
- Kaiser Medical insurance, employer pays 90% of individual employee medical coverage.
- Dental, Vision, Life, Pet Insurance, 403b, HSA, FSA.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Employer Funded Retirement Plan.
- CPR & First Aid Training.
- Clinical training and supervision.
- Professional Development.
- Company issued cell phone.
- Opportunity for performance increase at 1 year and annually thereafter.
