Master's Level Early Childhood Clinician | Per Diem

Applicants are strongly encouraged to provide a cover letter outlining their interest in working with young children and their families. Use the opportunity to highlight specific experiences and skills that may not shine through the resume, making you a strong candidate.

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.

As a Per Diem ECMH Clinician at The Center for Early Childhood, you will fill a critical gap in community-based behavioral health services in Massachusetts, providing specialized services and supports. You will carry a caseload and adhere to health insurance standards. You will work with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, early elementary school children, and adults (parents and professionals).

More specifically, the Per Diem ECMH Clinician will:

Direct care to children and adults:

• The Per Diem ECMH Clinician is paid an hourly rate for time spent on insurance-reimbursable activities.
• 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.

Consultation and collaboration:

• Time spent on case management and administrative tasks is compensated as part of the rate paid for billable services. The Per Diem ECMH Clinician is expected to manage their time accordingly.
• 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…