Developmental Clinician (LCSW, LMFT, or LPC) - Child First DCF

Work where every moment matters.

Every day, more than 40,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here.  We invite you to become part of Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network. 

Charlotte Hungerford Hospital is a 122-bed, general acute care community hospital located in Torrington, Connecticut, that serves as a regional health care resource for the 100,000 residents of Litchfield County and Northwest Connecticut.  CHH offers personalized attention from an expert team of caregivers and physicians that utilize advanced technology and clinical partnerships in a convenient, safe and comfortable patient environment.

• Join an established and multicultural diverse interdisciplinary team at the Charlotte Hungerford Center for Youth and Families – a Nationally Accredited Child Advocacy Center - that provides a safe and therapeutic healing environment for children, teens, and their families. 
• The children served in Child First range in age from prenatal up to 6 years of age.
• The Center for Youth and Families supports clinicians work  by providing, weekly individual and team clinical supervision, weekly clinical group supervision to review cases and interact with colleagues, professional development opportunities that include training in the Child First model, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, and additional clinical topics, committed focus on employee wellbeing, work-life balance, and professional growth, and regular engagement with Department Medical Director & Administrator.
• The Child First Clinician engages with families and the Child First Care Coordinator in the collaborative assessment process. 
• The clinician uses all available information to develop a thoughtful, well-integrated clinical formulation and Child and Family Plan of Care in partnership with the Care Coordinator and family.
• Provides Child First home-based psychotherapeutic intervention with young children and their caregivers using relational, dyadic psychotherapy (CPP) and other modalities.
• Helps caregivers gain insigh