Bilingual - Child First Clinician I

About the role

The Child First Clinician I provides intensive, home-based intervention with children, prenatal through age five, and their caregivers. The position involves working to strengthen the caregiver-child relationship by facilitating play and improving the caregiver’s capacity to reflect on the meaning of the child’s behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Assess, evaluate, diagnose, and treat mental, emotional, developmental and behavioral difficulties in young children and families based on clinical standards of practice.
• Formulate treatment plans and treatment plan reviews based on assessments.
• Engages actively in all aspects of the Child First learning collaborative including in-person or live remote training, distance learning curriculum, specialty training, and clinical conferences.
• Collaborates with relevant providers and community partners to support treatment and strengthen the program’s community presence.
• Respond to client crises during work hours and on-call to support family stabilization.
• Maintains up-to-date case records on each client family, including weekly contact reports, service agreements, evaluations, treatment plans, and termination summaries, as well as timely data entry to meet funder requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum Education and Experience: Master's degree (M.A., M.F.T., M.S.W.), one year of clinical experience.
• Minimum Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Must hold a CT state LMSW, LPCA or LMFTAA valid driver’s license and state mandated levels of auto liability insurance required. Enrollment in CPP training within the soonest available cohort.
• Eligibility for CPR/First Aid Certification.
• Minimum Skills And Abilities: Bilingual in Spanish, Access to transportation for 75% travel to New London, Windham, and Middlesex counties (DCF Region 3), Ability to work two late nights per week and possibly weekends, Familiarity with Microsoft Suite and ability to learn new technological platforms, Experience with EHR preferred, Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills, Self-awareness and critical thinking skills.

Benefits

UCFS is strongly committed to a workplace environment that respects, appreciates and values employee differences and similarities. By providing and supporting an enriching work culture, UCFS will continue to better serve our communities and provide quality patient, client, and resident care and services.

Pay

$57,000 - 58,000 / year