Child First Mental Health Professional

NEW GRADS ENCOURAGED TO APPLY!!
$3,000 Sign on Bonus
Work schedule Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Must reside in the Canon City/Fremont County area. 

General Purpose

Our Child First 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 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.  

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Engage with the Child First family and the Family Support Partner in the collaborative family assessment process (i.e., gather information from interviews, observations of interactions and play, reviewed records, collateral sources, and standardized measures).
• Use all available information to develop a thoughtful, well-integrated clinical formulation and Child and Family Plan of Care, in partnership with the Family Support Partner and family.
• 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.
• Embrace use of videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reflective supervision. 
• Engage in weekly individual, Team, and group reflective clinical supervision with Clinical Supervisor.
• Engage actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative, including in-person trainings, distance learning curriculum, and specialty trainings.
• Keep all appropriate documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement.
• Participate in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate.

Job Qualifications

• Strong commitment to the vision, mission, and goals 
• Highly organized, self-motivated, reliable, and flexible (including willingness to work non-
• traditional hours, including at least one evening). 
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Able to communicate well verbally and in writing.
• Comfortable with computers and experienced with Word and Excel.
• Reliable vehicle and appropriate insurance for home visits.

Requirements: 

• Master’s degree in social work, clinical psychology, or closely related field Required.

Working Environment:

This job operates in a fast-paced, professional office environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers. The position may require travel to conferences, meetings and branch locations on a regular or intermittent basis. Work may involve moderate exposure to unusual elements, such as extreme temperatures, dirt, dust, fumes, smoke, unpleasant odors, and/or loud noises. In the health center environment, there is potential for contact with blood-borne pathogens and communicable diseases, as well as potential for contact with dissatisfied or abusive individuals. There could be interaction with persons who are mentally ill, disabled, elderly and emotionally upset.

Physical Activities:

This is a largely sedentary role but can involve standing or sitting for extended periods of time, bending at the waist, and using hands and fingers to handle and file papers or operate assigned equipment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus. Employee may also have to lift 10 to 25 lbs. unassisted.

Conditions of Employment:

• Annual TB, federally required drug screening, and Influenza vaccination or compliance with policy and procedure.
• Required possession of a valid state driver's license.
• Successful candidate must submit to and pass, post-offer drug screen.

Work schedule Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Client contacts will primarily take place in clients home. Office will be a touch down spot for training and meetings.

Child First Training will be provided to selected clinician at no cost to the clinician, along with Reflective Supervision and Consultation provided. Additional Information provided upon request.

Summary of Benefits

Insurance Coverage

• Employer-paid Life insurance
• Medical and behavioral health benefits
• Dental
• Vision
• 6% employer match retirement, 100% vested after just one year
• Optional insurance coverage is available on a shared-cost basis
• Flexible spending plans for health, dependent, and elder care
• Optional Health Savings Account plan with employer contributions

Vacation & Education

• Generous paid time off benefit
• Up to 10 paid holidays
• Paid Sick time
• Internships for master’s level students in the behavioral health field.
• Progressive skills enhancement training

Reimbursements

• Monthly stipend for fitness club membership
• Discounted membership for Crossfit Cañon City and HRRMC Wellness U Staff Gym in Salida
• Clinical licensure reimbursement

Loan Forgiveness

Student loan repayment programs are available through:

• National Health Service Corps Active Sites
• Nurse Corps Active Sites
• NHSC STAR LRP Active Sites
• Colorado Health Service Corps
• Public Student Loan Forgiveness