Child First Clinician

General Purpose
The Child First Clinician partners with a Family Support Partner to engage
families who are referred to the Child First home-based intervention. Child
Firsts 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 childs 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 Clinicians 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 childs 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.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each
essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are
representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities
to perform the essential functions.

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.

Supervisory Duties (if any)
None

Job Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Ability:
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. Past CPP
training is highly valued.
Openness to learning, capacity for self-reflection, and eagerness to
participate in reflective clinical supervision.
Knowledge of relationship-based, psychodynamic intervention and early child
development; parent-child relationships and attachment theory; effects of
trauma and environmental risks on early childho d 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.
Knowledge and experience working with adults with mental health, substance
use, and cognitive challenges.
Experience providing intervention within diverse home and community settings.
Ability to speak a second language (Spanish), highly valued.
Strong commitment to the vision, mission, and goals of Child First and
Solvista Health.
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.

Education or Formal Training:
Masters degree in social work, clinical psychology, or closely related field.
Colorado license preferred (LPC, LCSW, LMFT).

Experience:
Three years of clinical experience as a licensed mental health professional;
or combination of training, education, experience, and licensure that is
equivalent and provides the required knowledge and abilities.

Working… For full info follow application link.

Solvista Health is deeply committed to building a workplace and community
where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. Were proud to be an