Master's Level Early Childhood Clinician | Per Diem

The Home for Little Wanderers • Boston, MA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

When you join The Center for Early Childhood @ Home for Little Wanderers, you join a team of professionals dedicated to partnering with families and professionals to promote optimal emotional health for young children and the adults who care for them. Through a variety of early childhood mental health (ECMH) direct care services and consultation partnerships, The Center works with children (0-7), parents/caregivers, and professionals to build and support strong social-emotional foundations for happy, healthy childhoods. The Center provides age-appropriate, culturally responsive interventions for children and families in a variety of settings including our child-friendly clinic, homes, early education sites, shelters, and community spaces.

The Per Diem ECMH Clinician role is autonomous and highly clinically competent. The ideal candidate needs little oversight, is proactive and independent, ready to jump-in to tough cases, and able to “thinking outside the box” in clinical care. The work environment is collaborative and supportive; however, the Per Diem ECMH Clinician works a schedule that reduces opportunities to engage with peers and leadership. The ideal candidate can (with limited support) work cases from referral to close, using early childhood mental health expertise.

The Per Diem ECMH Clinician is welcome but not required to fully engage as a member of our fun and supportive team of clinicians and mental health consultants led by fun and supportive program leaders. Regardless of their time commitment, the ideal candidate brings their whole self to work, nurtures relationships with coworkers, and enthusiastically seeks out the level of team engagement that best meets their career goals.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in social work, mental health or related discipline
• Prior experience engaging children 0-7 (could include volunteer, intern, lived-experience, etc.)
• Excellent cultural curiosity, sensitivity, and responsivity
• Strong capacity for self-reflection
• Computer literate, including Microsoft Office, with the ability to learn new software applications
• Ability to travel (via personal transportation or public transit) to meet programmatic and client needs regularly and intermittently

Nice To Haves

• Ability to provide services in a second language; Identified need for Spanish and/or Haitian Creole fluency.
• Massachusetts licensure (LICSW, LCSW, LMHC, or LMFT)

Responsibilities

• Provide insurance reimbursable promotion, prevention, and intervention early childhood mental health services, including individual, dyadic, family, and group therapy along with collateral consultations and care coordination, that are holistic, family-centered, trauma responsive, and evidence informed.
• Engage families, assess the child’s needs, and provide age-appropriate diagnosis incorporating relationships, family values, cultural norms, and developmental/educational needs using standardized tools and best practices.
• Support caregivers with meeting their own goals and mental health needs through facilitated referrals and family therapy.
• As needed, attend to families in crisis by facilitating access to crisis and emergency services for children and adults.
• Build and maintain a caseload sufficient to meet per diem productivity goals.
• Facilitate referrals for services, supports, and resources from internal and external community-based providers.
• Support families experiencing systemic barriers (including racism, poverty, immigration status, and multi-system involvement) to child and family mental health and wellness.
• Attend meetings, make phone calls, complete forms, research, follow-up, develop partnerships, and advocate with internal and external providers to promote coordinated, high quality, and equitable service experiences (individual client and macro work).
• Independently differentiate between insurance billable and non-reimbursable activities.
• Develop and document treatment plans utilizing modalities consistent with program goals and client needs including therapeutic play, expressive arts, trauma-informed care, and evidence-based practices.
• Ensure that documentation meets utilization review and quality assurance standards (timely submission, completeness, quality, etc.).
• Independently document work with strong attention to insurance requirements for billable activities.
• Actively participate in training and learning opportunities for personal and professional growth, as assigned by supervisor and program director.
• Actively participate in supervision and meetings including individual, group, and team constellations, as assigned by supervisor and program director.
• As needed, consult with supervisor and peers about successes, challenges, threats and opportunities.
• Center family voice and choice in all phases of service delivery.
• Demonstrate commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and The Home’s becoming an anti-racist institution.

Benefits

• $60 per hour for time spent on insurance-reimbursed activities. This rate covers time spent outside of reimbursable activities, which is not paid separately.
• $20 per hour for time spent on required training and meetings, as assigned by a supervisor or program director.

What This Job Offers

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