Licensed Mental Health Clinician​/Child First Mental Health​/Bilingual - Spanish

Overview

Licensed Mental Health Clinician / Child First Mental Health / Bilingual - Spanish

We are hiring for a positive and personable individual to make a real difference in the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health, and substance use challenges. The Mental Health and Developmental Clinician partners with a Care Coordinator/Family Resource Partner/Family Support Partner (state-based title) to support families referred to Child First. The Clinician can adapt services to benefit both English-Speaking and Spanish-Speaking families.

The Clinician uses Child Parent Psychotherapy, a relationship-based, dyadic, parent-child treatment model focusing on primary attachment relationships of the young child. The Clinician engages with both caregiver and child in a supportive, reflective, and exploratory manner to foster a protective, nurturing, and responsive parent-child relationship. Therapeutic interventions focus 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 caregiver response to the child. The Clinician also provides consultation to teachers in early care and education settings, as needed. The best candidate possesses Spanish language fluency, is highly organized, self-motivated, reliable, and flexible with an openness to learning, capacity for self-reflection, eagerness for reflective clinical supervision, and a desire to be part of a team.

Child First is an intensive, early childhood, two-generation, home visiting model that helps families build strong, nurturing relationships to heal and protect young children (prenatal through age five) from trauma and chronic stress, with the goal of healing. Child First identifies children at the earliest possible time to provide care for emotional and behavioral health, development and learning success, and connection with services and resources to support the family’s success and wellbeing.

Child First is recognized as an evidence-based home visiting model by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the MIECHV Program and rated “Effective” by NREPP/SAMHSA.

• Providing therapeutic services including assessments, crisis intervention, individual and group therapy to individuals served, including but not limited to adults and children/adolescents.
• Serving individuals with a wide variety of mental health and substance use diagnoses.
• Facilitating relationships and serving as a link between the company, parents/guardians, local agencies, and the community.
• Supporting individuals with connections to services and referrals for holistic treatment.
• Working closely with other clinical/professional staff to maintain communication, provide feedback, standardize procedures, and expedite treatment implementation.

• Graduate degree in Counseling or a related field
• Valid licensure to provide mental/behavioral healthcare (LCMHC, LCMHCA, LCSWA, LCSW, LMFTA, LMFT)
• Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish
• General working knowledge of the human services delivery system
• Experience with Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
• Ability to perform tasks on the computer including Microsoft 365, Excel, Word and other basic programs
• Valid driver’s license, auto insurance
• Experience working psychotherapeutically with culturally diverse children and families, including parent-child therapeutic work and play therapy with very young children (0-5 years); CPP training valued
• Knowledge of relationship-based, psychodynamic intervention and early child development; attachment theory; effects of trauma and environmental risks on early brain development; and community-level risk factors
• Experience providing mental health assessment and consultation to early care and education sites (preferred)
• Knowledge and experience working with adults with mental health, substance use, and cognitive challenges (preferred)
• Experience providing intervention within…