Child First Mental Health and Development Clinician

About the role

We are hiring a Child First Mental Health and Development Clinician to support families with intellectual, developmental disabilities, and those facing mental health and substance use challenges. This role involves using Child Parent Psychotherapy to foster protective, nurturing, and responsive parent-child relationships.

Responsibilities

• Provide therapeutic services including assessments, crisis intervention, individual and group therapy to individuals served, including adults and children/adolescents.
• Serve individuals with various mental health and substance use diagnoses.
• Facilitate relationships and act as a link between the company, parents, guardians, local agencies, and the community.
• Support individuals with connections to services and referrals for holistic treatment.
• Work closely with other clinical/professional staff to maintain communication and provide feedback, standardize procedures, and expedite treatment implementation.

Requirements

• Graduate degree in Counseling or a related field.
• Valid licensure to provide mental/behavioral healthcare (LCMHC, LCMHCA, LCSWA, LCSW, LMFTA, LMFT).
• General working knowledge of the human services delivery system.
• Experience with Electronic Medical Records (EMR).
• Ability to perform tasks on the computer including working with Microsoft 360, Excel, Word, and other basic programs.
• Valid driver’s license, auto insurance.
• 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 a minimum of three years preferred.
• 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 preferred.
• Knowledge and experience working with adults with mental health, substance use, and cognitive challenges preferred.
• Experience providing intervention within diverse home and community settings preferred.

Qualifications

• Highly organized, self-motivated, reliable, and flexible.
• Eagerness to participate in reflective clinical supervision.
• Desire to be part of a team.

Skills

• Openness to learning.
• Capacity for self-reflection.

Benefits

• Payactiv: early access to the money you’ve earned from hours you’ve already worked, before payday!
• Employee perks and discount program: to help you save money!
• Paid Time Off (full-time employees only)
• Health/Insurance (full-time employees only)
• 401(k) retirement savings program
• Wellbeing Programs: Physical, Emotional and Financial
• Chronic Disease management programs for hypertension and diabetes (for qualifying employees)
• Free CPR, first aid, and job-specific training opportunities

Pay

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Schedule

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Benefits

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