Mental Health Clinician (Early Intervention and Early Head Start)

Job Description

Looking for a rewarding career that makes a difference in children's lives? Look no further and join the team at Meeting Street! Meeting Street is a special place of learning, where children of all abilities have the opportunities to reach their fullest potential.

Full-time employees receive:
Competitive Pay
Eligible for up to $5,000 productivity bonus each year
Generous PTO
13 paid holidays
Medical, dental, vision and MORE

Meeting Street is currently looking for a Mental Health Clinician for 40 per week.

Duties:
Early Intervention:
Partners and provides psychological support and services to families of infants or toddlers with or at risk for developmental delay(s) so that the child can develop to their fullest potential and participate functionally within his/her family and community by addressing problems in the child's growth and development.
Works as member of team, and partner with the family, to gather, organize, analyze, interpret, and accurately report on information from multiple sources to plan and administer an individualized evaluation/assessment.
Conducts ongoing assessments to monitor child's development and functional skills, progress toward IFSP outcomes, and to determine effectiveness of individual program planning.
Refers, coordinates, and mobilizes other community resources to enable the child and family to receive maximum benefit from early intervention supports and services.
Develops IFSPs that clearly outline family supports, individualized strategies, and relevant services that work toward outcome achievement in a variety of settings and that can be independently owned and operated by the families.
Conducts home visits to evaluate a child's living conditions and patterns of parent-child interactions.
Provides intervention to address those problems in a child's and family's living situation (home, community and any other location where early intervention supports and service are provided) that affect the child's maximum utilization of early intervention support and services.
Implements individual and family-group counselling with the parents and other family members and provides appropriate social skill-building activities with the infant or toddler and parent(s).
Plans and manages a program of psychological services, including psychological counseling for children and parents(s), family counseling, consultation on child development, parent training and education programs.

Early Head Start:
Provides mental health activities for pregnant women, children (up to age 3) and their families.
Provides delivery of early childhood mental health services to Early Head Start families and staff in compliance with all applicable federal, state and agency policies, procedures and regulations.
Provides timely evaluation and intervention of children with behavioral and/or social-emotional concerns.
Provides resources responsive to families' identified needs and/or interests in a timely manner.
Integrates the parents, guardians and/or families in the early childhood mental health services program; works collaboratively with parents by soliciting parental information, making observations and addressing concerns about their child's mental health.
Shares observations of the child and discusses child's behavior and development with the parents.
Completes socialization observations and provides feedback to address social emotional growth in the classroom.
Helps parents to better understand mental health issues and supports parents' participation in any needed mental health interventions.
Works with program staff and parents to design and implement program practices responsive to identified behavioral and mental health concerns of an individual child or group of children.

Meeting Street believes the dignity of each person is paramount. We recognize that our community's future strength rests firmly on our commitment to our values of respect, compassion, integrity, inclusivity, and excellence. To uphold these commitments, we expect all employees to recognize and properly respond to racism and other forms of injustice.

It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, transfer and promote employees, and to ensure that all other employment practices (i.e. salary and benefits administration, education and training programs, and social and recreational programs) are administered without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, gender, sexual preference or orientation, gender expression or identity, age, national origin or ancestry, legally recognized disability, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, military status, socioeconomic background, homelessness or any other characteristic or category protected by law. It is also our policy to protect employees and applicants from any coercion, retaliation or discrimination for filing a complaint or assisting in any investigation pursuant to the equal opportunity laws.

Learn more about us at https://www.meetingstreet.org

Welcome to ATX Learning

Meeting Street compassionately and innovatively empowers children and their families to thrive by fostering the development of the whole child. Established in 1946 as a small school for children with special needs, Meeting Street has evolved into an inclusive organization serving 5,000 children and young adults, prenatal to age 22, across Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Through our nationally recognized programs and services, we meet families where they are to foster an inclusive and supportive community.

Learn more at https://www.meetingstreet.org/