Master's Level Early Childhood Clinician | Per Diem

How You Will Be Making a Difference

The Per Diem ECMH Clinician will fill a critical gap in community-based behavioral health services in Massachusetts, providing specialized services and supports.

Direct care to children and adults:

• Provide insurance reimbursable promotion, prevention, and intervention early childhood mental health services, including individual, dyadic, family, and group therapy along with collateral consultations and care coordination, that are holistic, family-centered, trauma responsive, and evidence informed.
• Engage families, assess the child’s needs, and provide age-appropriate diagnosis incorporating relationships, family values, cultural norms, and developmental/educational needs using standardized tools and best practices.
• Support caregivers with meeting their own goals and mental health needs through facilitated referrals and family therapy.
• Build and maintain a caseload sufficient to meet per diem productivity goals.
• Facilitate referrals for services, supports, and resources from internal and external community-based providers.
• Support families experiencing systemic barriers (including racism, poverty, immigration status, and multi-system involvement) to child and family mental health and wellness.
• Attend meetings, make phone calls, complete forms, research, follow-up, develop partnerships, and advocate with internal and external providers to promote coordinated, high quality, and equitable service experiences (individual client and macro work).
• Independently differentiate between insurance billable and non-reimbursable activities.

Consultation and collaboration:

• Manage time spent on case management and administrative tasks.
• Facilitate referrals for services, supports, and resources from internal and external community-based providers.
• Support families experiencing systemic barriers (including racism, poverty, immigration status, and multi-system involvement) to child and family mental health and wellness.
• Attend meetings, make phone calls, complete forms, research, follow-up, develop partnerships, and advocate with internal and external providers to promote coordinated, high quality, and equitable service experiences (individual client and macro work).
• Independently differentiate between insurance billable and non-reimbursable activities.

Ongoing professional development and wellness:

• Participate in training and learning opportunities for personal and professional growth, as assigned by supervisor and program director.
• Participate in supervision and meetings including individual, group, and team constellations, as assigned by supervisor and program director.
• Consult with supervisor and peers about successes, challenges, threats and opportunities.
• Demonstrate commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and The Home’s becoming an anti-racist institution.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work, mental health or related discipline
• Prior experience engaging children 0-7 (could include volunteer, intern, lived-experience, etc.)
• Excellent cultural curiosity, sensitivity, and responsivity
• Strong capacity for self-reflection
• Computer literate, including Microsoft Office, with the ability to learn new software applications
• Ability to travel (via personal transportation or public transit) to meet programmatic and client needs regularly and intermittently
• Highly preferred: Ability to provide services in a second language; Identified need for Spanish and/or Haitian Creole fluency
• Massachusetts licensure (LICSW, LCSW, LMHC, or LMFT)