Clinical Outreach Consultant

Family & Children's Service of Ithaca • City of Ithaca, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Clinical Outreach Consultant will provide clinically informed outreach, consultation, and education services in Tompkins County. The role focuses on two main populations: children aged 0-5 years and those who care for them (family members, daycare staff, pre-k teachers, etc.), and older adults aged 65+ years and those who care for them (family members, in-home aids, nursing home staff, etc.). This is a grant-funded position, with its continuation dependent on maintaining grant funding. F&CS has secured this grant for over 10 years and anticipates stable funding.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a mental health discipline (license to practice not necessary).
• Demonstrated professional experience with older adults and their care partners as well as children aged 0-5 and their parents/caregivers.
• Proficiency in formal and informal presentations delivering content designed to raise awareness, knowledge, and skills.
• Clear understanding of the systems at play in the lives of children ages 0-5 and their caregivers as well as older adult and their care partners, and how these interact with the cultural identities of these populations and their caregivers.

Nice To Haves

• Prior work experience in a clinical capacity with older adults and children.
• Experience working with families for whom English is not their first language and may have limited proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Provide outreach, consultation, and education services directly to children, older adults, caregivers/care partners, and other related stakeholders.
• Spend approximately 75% of work time on-location in the Tompkins County community; build relationships with community members and service providers and allow this to inform service delivery (locations to be determined and services to be developed according to community need in collaboration with program lead).
• Help to inform quarterly and annual reports developed by the Program Lead on service delivery to demonstrate how grant funding has been spent as well as how it is accomplishing the goals of the program.
• As assigned by the program lead, collaborate internally with F&CS staff and externally with other community agencies to ensure that information related to program services is disseminated to relevant parties and that services continue to be influenced by what the community is needing for this population.
• Maintain boundaries between services provided under this program and clinical services, and reinforce with all stakeholders the difference. This is not a clinical diagnostic or treatment service and is not covered under HIPAA, is not billable to insurance, etc.
• Document all services provided in compliance with standards set by program lead for what is necessary under this program.
• Keep up with professional developments in the field in order to keep knowledge base current with changes in understanding of the needs children ages 0-5 and those who care for them.
• Continue to adapt service delivery in line with the program vision to meet the ever-changing community needs.

What This Job Offers

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