Child Mental Health Specialist

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At ECS4

Kids (formerly Episcopal Children’s Services), we honor young children’s immense potential by helping them enter school ready to learn. We cultivate lifelong learners by immersing children in enriching guided experiences and discovery-oriented approaches. Through programs like Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK), Head Start, School Readiness, Child Care Resource & Referral (CCRR), and more, our dedicated professionals work with families and caregivers throughout Florida to promote children’s well-being.

These enable us to strengthen key areas including motor development, cognitive development, social and emotional development, language and communication skills, and problem‑solving skills.

Job Type: Full‑time

Partner with us to help empower communities to rise above generational poverty with comprehensive early childhood education and holistic family support. We have career opportunities available in several counties throughout Northeast and Central Florida.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 403(b) plan with 5% employer match
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Long‑term & short‑term disability insurance
• Employer‑paid life insurance
• Paid holidays
• Generous paid time off
• Career development
• Qualifying employer for Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

Ensure that the Child Mental Health performance standards are met in Head Start and Early Head Start.

• Support timely and effective identification of and supportive intervention to family and staff concerns about a child’s mental health.
• Work with teachers, home visitors, parents/guardians, and program support staff to use observations, screening results, and other systematic ways to identify and address children’s mental health needs.
• Track and monitor social emotional screenings to ensure compliance with the 45‑day requirement; ensure follow‑up as needed.
• Observe and provide infant and early childhood mental health consultation to assigned caseload according to a consistent schedule to understand program needs, to be recognized by center staff and families as an approachable team member, and to provide effective consultation support to staff and families for children with identified mental health concerns.
• Design and implement program practices responsive to the identified behavioral and mental health concerns of an individual child or group of children.
• Complete observations to provide recommendations and strategies to caregivers for children with atypical behavior or development.
• Provide individual on‑site support through modeling and consultation to identified children.
• Utilize other community mental health resources, as needed.
• Schedule regular on‑site mental health consultation involving program staff and parents on how to:
• Promote children’s mental wellness by providing group and individual staff and parent education on mental health issues.
• Utilize other community mental health resources, as needed.
• Work with center staff, support staff, and parents to design a supportive intervention program based on observation, staff input, parent input, and screening results.
• Participate in case management meetings and file reviews for assigned center.
• Identify and work with available mental health resources in the community; refer families for further supportive and clinical services as needed.
• Support the implementation of the University Practicum Student program within the Head Start programs.
• Coordinate with local mental health service providers as needed.
• Work with Family Advocate and Center Manager to arrange for further, formal, evaluation of a child when appropriate.
• Complete postpartum depression screening with pregnant women within 2 weeks of delivery.
• Assist with and attend Health and Mental Health Services Advisory Committee (HMHSAC) meetings. Assist with providing mental health training to teachers throughout the year and during pre‑service training.
• Assist with summer screenings at assigned centers.
• Keep informed of current professional knowledge and strategies for social‑emotional development through participation in workshops and by reading professional publications.
• Maintain…