Child First Mental Health and Developmental Clinician

Savio House • Denver, CO

7d • $58,660 - $66,660 • Remote

About The Position

The Child First Mental Health and Developmental Clinician partners with a Family Support Partner to engage families who are referred to the Child First home-based intervention. Child First’s primary goal is to strengthen the caregiver-child relationship so that it serves both as a protective buffer to unavoidable stress and directly facilitates the child’s emotional, language, and cognitive growth. The Clinician uses trauma-informed CPP, a relationship-based, dyadic, parent-child treatment model, which focuses on the primary attachment relationships of the young child. The Clinician engages with both the caregiver and child in a supportive, reflective, and exploratory manner which fosters a protective, nurturing, and responsive parent-child relationship.
The Clinician’s therapeutic intervention focuses on:
1) helping caregivers understand typical developmental challenges and expectations;
2) increasing caregivers’ ability to reflect on the meaning and feelings motivating a child’s behavior;
3) supporting caregivers’ problem solving; and
4) helping caregivers understand the psychodynamic relationship between parental feelings, history, and the caregiver response to the child. The Clinician also provides consultation to teachers in early care and education settings, as needed.

Requirements

• MSW or other Masters in related counseling, psychology or related field.
• DORA registration ability, LCSW, LPC, LMFT or other licensure (Candidacy and NLC also accepted).

Responsibilities

• Partner with a Family Support Partner to engage families referred to the Child First home-based intervention.
• Strengthen the caregiver-child relationship.
• Facilitate the child’s emotional, language, and cognitive growth.
• Use trauma-informed CPP, a relationship-based, dyadic, parent-child treatment model.
• Focus on the primary attachment relationships of the young child.
• Engage with both the caregiver and child in a supportive, reflective, and exploratory manner.
• Foster a protective, nurturing, and responsive parent-child relationship.
• 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 psychodynamic relationship between parental feelings, history, and the caregiver response to the child.
• Provide consultation to teachers in early care and education settings, as needed.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level