Clinician, Early Childhood

 Clinician – Early Childhood 

 Salary Range: $52,000-$62,000.

*New Hire Sign on Bonus: $500 after 90 days; additional $1000 after 6 months

Summary of Position:

The Child First Mental Health and Developmental Clinician partners with a Family Support Partner to engage families who are referred to the Child First home-based intervention.  Child First’s primary goal is to strengthen the caregiver-child relationship so that it serves both as a protective buffer to unavoidable stress and directly facilitates the child’s emotional, language, and cognitive growth.  

The Clinician uses trauma-informed Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), a relationship-based, dyadic, parent-child treatment model, which focuses on the primary attachment relationships of the young child.  The Clinician engages with both the caregiver and child in a supportive, reflective, and exploratory manner which fosters a protective, nurturing, and responsive parent-child relationship.  

The Clinician’s therapeutic intervention focuses on: 1) helping caregivers understand typical developmental challenges and expectations; 2) increasing caregivers’ ability to reflect on the meaning and feelings motivating a child’s behavior; 3) supporting caregivers’ problem solving; and 4) helping caregivers understand the psychodynamic relationship between parental feelings, history, and the caregiver response to the child.  The Clinician also provides consultation to teachers in early care and education settings, as needed.  

To apply for this role directly, please follow this link:

https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=ec212f08-e17a-4d55-808b-069b65c3cfce&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=493708&source=CC2&lang=en_US

Essential Job Functions:

• Engage with the Child First family and the Family Support Partner in the collaborative family assessment process and to develop an integration clinical formulation and treatment plan.
• Provide Child First home-based psychotherapeutic intervention with young children and their caregivers using relational, dyadic psychotherapy (CPP) and other modalities.
• Help the caregiver gain insight regarding personal history (including trauma history), feelings for the child, and current parenting practices.
• Avert crisis situations by assisting the family in times of urgent need (e.g., risk of harm to child or caregiver, pending child removal), in consultation with the Family Support Partner and Clinical Supervisor.
• Provide mental health and developmental assessment and consultation within early care and education settings and to other early childhood providers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s or Doctoral level licensed mental health provider (e.g., LCSW, LPC, LMFT, clinical psychologist, other)
• Experience working psychotherapeutically with culturally diverse children and families, including parent-child therapeutic work and play therapy with very young children (0-5 years), for three years.  Past CPP training is highly valued.
• Knowledge of relationship-based, psychodynamic intervention and early child development; parent-child relationships and attachment theory; effects of trauma and environmental risks on early childhood brain development, especially violence exposure, maternal depression, and substance abuse; and community-level risk factors (e.g., poverty, homelessness).
• Experience providing mental health assessment and consultation to early care and education sites. 
• Knowledge and experience working with adults with mental health, substance use, and cognitive challenges. 
• Ability to speak a second language (Spanish, Portuguese, Creole, other), highly valued.
• Work a Monday-Friday schedule with the capacity to work some evenings and weekends as needed to support families.
• This position requires driving a company vehicle and visiting clients in their homes

All positions require the successful completion of a criminal CBI background check, FBI fingerprint check, State of CO child abuse check (TRAILS), DMV driving record check, pre-employment drug test, pre-employment physical, academic credential verification, and reference check. 

  Benefits -For employees working 30 or more hours: 

• Company car provided for needed travel to family’s homes, $