Home Based Infant Mental Health Clinician - Bilingual Spanish Required
Mental Health Center of Denver

Job Info

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WellPower provides you with the support you need to help you develop a career in helping others succeed. We innovate, adapt, and leverage the diverse perspectives of the people on our team and the people we serve in everything we do.

WellPower values and is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to ending bias and discrimination in our community and ensuring equity within all aspects of our organization. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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Pay Range & Benefits:

• Mental Health Therapist II - $27.61
• LCSW/LPC/LMFT - $32.17 - $32.67
• Spanish Language Differential - $2.50/hour

WellPower is committed to fair and equitable hiring with salaries based on relevant factors, such as work experience, education, and certification/licensure (rather than wage history). Toward the principle of equal pay for equal work, we post and hire within defined hiring salary ranges. We ask all applicants to carefully review the hiring salary range for each posted job opportunity, as we will not hire outside the predetermined range.

All full-time, benefits eligible employees will be eligible for WellPower's benefits plan. For a full description of benefit offerings, please visit: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice/.

POSITION SUMMARY:

This position is a member of the Right Start for Infant Mental Health team, WellPower's team serving families with children birth to five years and pregnant individuals. Our team of clinicians works exclusively with infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families to offer comprehensive, trauma-informed, culturally proficient, relationship-based interventions including: Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Parent Child Interaction Therapy, Circle of Security-Parenting, Trauma-Focused CBT and other clinical interventions as necessary. We also provide treatment to pregnant individuals and new caregivers experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders that threaten to affect infant development. The young children and families we serve present with a broad range of infant mental health concerns, but frequently have experienced trauma, abuse/neglect, removal from or loss of a primary caregiver, and as a result are exhibiting post-traumatic stress symptoms, behavioral challenges, depression, anxiety and/or distressed/disordered caregiver-child relationships. The primacy of the caregiver-child relationship is central to our work and thus the services offered are dyadic in nature. This position is also responsible for maintaining compliance to documentation standards for all work performed. Bilingual Spanish required.

While the Right Start for Infant Mental Health team provides both outpatient and home/community-based services, this position is home based only. Cases designated as being at a home-based level of care include cases with higher symptoms severity, multiple caregiver involvement, need for multiple sessions per week, or need for more intensive care coordination due to involvement with multiple systems. Services are typically provided in the family's home or other community locations (as appropriate). Mileage is reimbursed and travel time is accounted for in work expectations.

This position is currently funded through the Right Start for Colorado workforce development initiative, thus will have access to all training offerings from Right Start for Colorado and other relevant resources and trainings including the Zero to Three conference.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Provide diagnostic mental health assessments of children ages 5 and under including assessing social-emotional functioning and caregiver-child relationship functioning. Familiarity with DC:0-5 encouraged.
• Provide dyadic and family therapy services to children ages 0 to 5 and their caregivers. Typical treatment modalities include Child Parent Psychotherapy, Parent Child Interaction Therapy, Circle of Security-Parenting, and Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This includes providing clinical services to pregnant and/or post partum individuals experiencing perinatal mood/ anxiety concerns that can impact the mental health of their infant.
• Support caregivers regarding typical emotional development and provide developmental guidance regarding challenging behaviors.
• Provide psycho-education and support groups for families/caregivers.
• Coordinate services with community partners and providers to support positive behavioral health, and social/emotional development in very young children.
• Provide case management services, including referral assistance, advocacy and support to families in accessing community resources.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation consistent with agency standards.
• Complete outcome measure assessments and other documentation to maintain compliance with Right Start for Colorado grant expectations.
• Participate in team meetings, in-services and supervisory sessions as required.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

EDUCATION: Master's Degree (or higher) in Psychology, Social Work, or other human service field. License (LCSW, LPC, LMFT, Psychologist) preferred.

EXPERIENCE: At least three years' experience working with children ages 5 and younger and their caregivers in a mental health setting.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

• Bilingual Spanish required
• Knowledge infant mental health theory & child development within the first five years of life (including attachment theory and early relationship development).
• Knowledge of issues related to infant/early childhood emotional health (e.g., prematurity, failure to thrive, trauma, adolescent parenthood, maternal depression, domestic violence and its impact on families, grief and loss, substance use).
• Knowledge of methods of dyadic psychotherapy in the first five years and disorders of infancy and toddlerhood (i.e., DC:0-5).
• Ability to use a variety of therapeutic techniques with young children and their caregivers. (Child Parent Psychotherapy. Parent Child Interaction Therapy, and Circle of Security-Parenting experience strongly preferred).
• Knowledge and understanding of trauma-informed care principles/practices. Ability to assess crisis/emergency situations and intervene appropriately.
• Ability to keep accurate detailed records and to comply with accountability requirements.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively on teams, both interagency and in the community. Strong interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.

TYPICAL PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Requires sitting, standing, bending and reaching. May require lifting up to 50 pounds. Requires manual dexterity sufficient to operate standard office machines such as computers, fax machines, the telephone and other office and/or clinical equipment.

TYPICAL MENTAL DEMANDS: Ability to give, receive and analyze information, formulate work plans, prepare written materials and articulate goals and action plans. Must understand people from all walks of life and be able to communicate effectively with them.

WORKING CONDITIONS: May require occasional evening hours (until 7pm)

Why else might you want to consider working at WellPower?

• Named Top Workplace - we have been named a Top Workplace by the Denver Post for ten consecutive years
• Champion Social Justice Causes - we are committed to ending anti-Black racism in our community
• 9 Paid Holidays - including Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and more
• Robust Benefits Package - our benefits start at 30 hours per week and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a retirement match
• Employee Resource Groups - our ERG's offer a chance to connect, address workplace challenges and get support from individuals who share similar characteristics or life experiences
• Gainsharing - we offer a bonus to employees if the organization meets certain requirements for the year
• $50,000/year minimum wage for all employees - we believe that our employees should earn a livable wage conducive to the cost of living in Denver, Colorado
• Free Licensure Supervision - for LCSWs/LPCs/LMFTs
• Sports Leagues - we offer a variety of activities for our employees, including bowling, dragon boat racing, volleyball leagues, and more

Tuberculosis (TB) screening, testing - TB screening and testing, is required and must be completed prior to hire (i.e., preplacement), and maintained during employment.

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