Program Supervisor - Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health

Overview

Easterseals Blake Foundation started as the Cerebral Palsy Foundation of Southern Arizona. Since then, we have expanded our services to better serve our community members. We are now one of Arizona's top providers of comprehensive behavioral health services, child welfare, and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We serve more than 40,000 individuals and families across 10 counties and support more than 3,700 children in Foster Care throughout Southern Arizona.

Are you ready to make profound, positive differences in people's lives every day?

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Life insurance
• Voluntary Short-term Disability insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Accident insurance
• Employer paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program

General Position

Description:

Provides oversight of the Smart Support team and coordination of the Smart Support program’s activities, ensuring that the objectives are met and are in alignment with model fidelity and contractual requirements. Additionally, supports young children’s social and emotional health indirectly by strengthening the adult caregivers’ capacity to foster children’s healthy social and emotional development, early and before formalized intervention is needed.

• Acts as a resource regarding early childhood development with an emphasis on emotional and behavioral health and the importance of the relationship between the participant and mental health consultant (MHC).
• Completes technical assistance plans to support participants, children, and staff. Develops and implements a plan to deliver Technical Assistance, including a written agreement between Easterseals Blake Foundation, the recipient of Technical Assistance, and the Director or Program Administrator.
• Collaborates with childcare providers, families, directors, managers, and other team members to build their knowledge and skills to support the needs of children and families.
• Provides group and individual training on overall social and emotional wellness with specific topics related to child development, trauma-informed care, attachment, self-care, and other related topics. Ensures attendees complete evaluation forms for training and technical assistance sessions.
• Adheres to the Codes of Ethics of National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the program’s Implementation Manual and Service Delivery Plan, and the funder’s Standards of Practice.
• Responds quickly staff concerns, notifying director of any significant issues.
• Reviews progress notes in a timely fashion as required by funding source and/or system partners.
• Reviews written intervention strategies (Action Plans) developed by an MHC utilizing a team approach to assist staff in developing positive behavior support strategies to promote optimal social-emotional development.
• Generates quarterly narrative report content for assigned regions and provides to funder in a timely manner.
• Makes recommendations to improve the productivity of staff, volunteers and the efficient utilization of resources.
• Utilizes program, community and participant data to recommend program services and activities that best meet the interest and needs of the participants and build on family strengths.
• Helps design and implement staff training in cooperation with the administrative home.
• Provide a broad range of administrative and supervisory functions. Supervises assigned staff in accordance with EBF personnel practices including recruitment, training, performance evaluations, and day to day scheduling. Participates in the process of ongoing professional development. Maintains comprehensive communication among all contacts within the agency, members, and external agencies. Models professional standards and ethics in accordance with EBF Code of Conduct, Strategic Plan, Mission, and Vision.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements: Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, or…