Military Family Life Counselor - HealthySteps - Tripler

Responsibilities

• Promotes HealthySteps within the practice to families and providers.
• Conducts team-based well-child visits before, during, or following the primary care provider.
• Focuses on monitoring development, social-emotional functioning, and relational health, and providing anticipatory guidance.
• Conducts consultations on a short-term basis for needs regarding development and/or behavioral concerns such as sleep, positive parenting, picky eating, etc.
• Maintains a child development support line and responds to and tracks call requests within the designated response time.
• Participates in reflective supervision meetings.
• May conduct home visits and may accompany families to key medical, specialty, and community agency appointments as needed.
• May facilitate parent/caregiver groups.
• Creates and maintains community resource directory/database.
• Provides referrals and tracks follow-up, as appropriate, to help families make successful connections to key resources within the community.
• Reaches out to community providers to share about HealthySteps, their role, and receive information to support referrals, warm handoffs, and ensure appropriate referral criteria is met.
• Participates (when appropriate) in community-wide early childhood and/or mental health meetings.
• Is an active member of the HS Implementation Team and attends regular team meetings.
• Works with the front office administrative staff to ensure scheduling of the HS Specialist’s time in coordination with provider visits (i.e., well-child visits).
• Engages in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives to ensure the HealthySteps model is delivered with fidelity.
• Collaborates with HealthySteps implementation team to implement all eight Core Components including universal screenings, making positive parenting and early learning guidance information available, and adjusting workflows for optimal efficiency.
• Maintains open communication with all members of the primary care team.
• Works closely with pediatric primary providers around care coordination, goal setting, coaching, and education about key aspects of a child’s development.
• Provides consultation and/or facilitates training to medical professionals and all practice staff re: early childhood development, early relational health/infant early childhood mental health, and trauma-informed practice.
• Maintains extensive databases required to meet HealthySteps fidelity metrics including both internal and external referrals.
• Collaborates with HealthySteps Implementation Team to complete required annual site reporting to the HealthySteps National Office at ZERO TO THREE, which may include analysis of both external database files and EHR data reports.
• Documents all patient clinical activity and care coordination in EHR.
• Tracks caseload to ensure capacity to deliver the HS services within the risk stratified service delivery model. This includes ensuring exit criteria is met and that families and children are elevated to higher levels of care or referred to community providers if needed.

Qualifications

• A master’s degree or higher in the Behavioral Health Professions (MS/MSW/MA/PhD).
• The candidate must hold a valid independent license in the mental health field from any US state or territory (LCSW, MHC, MFT, LPCC, Psychologist).
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must be able to pass a basic background check for employment, a Child National Agency Check, and Inquiries (NACI/CNACI) clearance, commonly called a Public Trust clearance.

Benefits

• No insurance to file.
• No progress notes required.
• No treatment plans to develop.
• iPad provided for easy digital reporting, with no PII or PHI.
• Paid federal holidays.
• Free and unlimited behavioral healthcare training.
• Reimbursement for job-related license renewal fees.
• Eligibility to participate in 401K retirement plan.
• Centralized support through a Counseling Center of Excellence that provides best practices, expert speakers, and state-of-the-art resources.