Social Worker BSW - Child First

Position Highlights

• Department:
Child First

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Hours:

40.00 per week

• Shift: Shift 1

Position Summary

The Care Coordinator partners with a mental health clinician to engage families who are referred to the Child First home-based intervention for children ages 0-5. The Care Coordinator plays a crucial role in stabilizing and supporting the entire family system, while the Clinician provides psychotherapeutic caregiver-child intervention to facilitate and enhance this critical relationship. The Care Coordinator takes the lead in connecting the child and family with desired, community-based services and supports while maintaining Child First’s reflective, relationship-based stance.

The Care Coordinator also enhances caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g., planning, organizing, managing time, focusing attention, regulating emotions, reflecting on progress) and engages in interactive play with young children in the home. Ultimately, through connecting to family resources, the Care Coordinator both decreases the “toxic” stress in the home environment and enhances opportunities for optimal child development, thereby promoting healthy brain development for infants and young children.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Direct Patient Contact:

• Provide community resource expertise to Child First team and families, including identifying and collaborating with community-based service providers and supports.

• Engage with the Child First family and the Clinician in the collaborative family assessment process (i.e., use data from interviews, observations, interactions, and standardized measures to identify family strengths, needs, and challenges).

• Promote family stabilization by identifying all needed and desired services, integrating service needs into the Child and Family Plan of Care, and addressing barriers to services as they arise.

• Avert crisis situations by assisting Child First family in times of urgent need.

• Enhance caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g., planning, organizing, managing time, focusing attention, regulating emotions, reflecting on progress) as needed and in consultation with the Clinician and Clinical Director.

• Maintain a reflective lens when engaging with the caregiver, in order to understand his/her motivation, needs, and possible barriers to new services and supports.

• Collaborate closely with Child First Clinicians to meet the needs of Child First families.

• Provide identified child and/or other children in the family with an interactive, growth-promoting play experience.

• Engage in weekly individual, Team, and group reflective clinical supervision with Clinical supervisor.

• Engage actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative, including in-person trainings, distance learning curriculum, and specialty trainings.

• Track completion of all assessments and enter into the appropriate database.

• Keep all appropriate documentation for clinical accountability

• Meet all expected program benchmarks and maintain fidelity to the model

• Participate in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in social work or a related field

• Valid driver‘s license a must for in home services

• Comfort with patients with mental/behavioral health disorders

• Must have excellent writing and communication skills, be highly organized

• Must be able to work as a part of a team

• Must be available to work evenings if needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience providing direct patient care is desirable, in-home a plus

• Knowledge of infant/early childhood development and mental health

• Knowledge in accessing community resources and supports

• Experience with data entry and record keeping

• Previous home visiting experience

Comprehensive Benefits Offered

• Competitive and affordable benefits package

• Shift Differentials

• Continuing Education assistance

• Tuition reimbursement

• Student Loan relief through Fiducius

• Quick commute access from I-84, Route 9 and surrounding areas

About Middlesex Health

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