- Center for Early Relationship Support Programs - Conexiones Tempranas
Job Title: Bilingual Parent/Child Clinician
Program: CERS Clinical Programs
Reports to: Director of Trauma Resilience and Community Outreach
Position Summary:
The Center for Early Relationship Support (CERS) provides clinical and support services for children ages birth to five and their families. Our focus is on building strong and healthy relationships between young children and their caregivers. The Parent/Child Clinicians conduct assessments and determine a treatment plan utilizing evidence-based and evidence-informed interventions to achieve client-identified treatment goals. Clinicians work in the complex field of dyadic infant-parent mental health, requiring them to hold multiple developmental and ethical perspectives while delivering cutting-edge services. Services are provided in the client's home, community, Waltham Office, or through telehealth. Clinicians often work in partnership with peer home visitors or family resource specialists (Case Managers) to ensure that concrete resource needs of clients are met, reducing stress on the parent-child relationship. The treatment will focus on issues of maternal self-efficacy, mood and affect regulation, and will support positive dyadic interactions and promote healthy infant and child development.
Essential Job Functions:
- Provide evidenced-based and/or evidence-informed Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) interventions to pregnant women, new parents, and their children birth to five years, focusing on supporting and strengthening the parent-child relationship.
- Attend to and ameliorate the impact of systemic vulnerabilities, racism, and oppression on families, colleagues, and systems.
- Conduct screenings and assessments with clients and children as required for program operations and funding.
- Facilitate parent psychoeducational groups utilizing evidenced-based curricula.
- Promote parental capacities for understanding and addressing the impact of trauma in their own and their children's lives.
- Build collaborative relationships with community providers to promote relationship-based practice and promote best practices for addressing trauma in young children.
- Participate in all program trainings, including Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Circle of Security-Parenting, Motivational Interviewing, and Reflective Function.
- Maintain accurate record keeping in accordance with program guidelines, including data entry in the agency reporting system.
- Learn all data instruments and participate in data collection.
- Participate in weekly supervision.
- Participate as a member of the staff team in Waltham office.
- Represent JF&CS and CERS in community coalitions and meetings.
- Other duties as assigned.
Educational/Experience Requirements:
- Advanced degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, Public Health, or related field required.
- Experience working with young children or parent-child dyads. Child-Parent Psychotherapy training/rostering preferred.
- Experience providing trauma-informed treatment.
- Must work effectively and comfortably with individuals and families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
- Fluent in Spanish and English.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point).
- Access to private transportation and willingness to travel to clients' homes required.
Position Highlights & Benefits
- Full-time, exempt position
- Annual salary range: $67,000-$70,000
- Can offer a hybrid schedule, requiring in-person participation in required meetings and travel to home and community settings for service provision.
- Best-in-field paid time off, including 22 days of vacation time, national and Jewish holidays.
- Immediate eligibility for insurance and benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision Plans
- Life Insurance (Basic, ADD & Voluntary)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- 403(b) Retirement Plan – with an Employer Match!
- Pet Insurance
- Health and Wellness Programs
ABOUT JF&CS
For more than 150 years, Jewish Family & Children's Service has been helping individuals and families build a strong foundation for resilience and well-being. We intentionally serve and employ people of all faiths, backgrounds, cultures, and abilities. Our work is guided by core tenets of faith and commitment, not by bureaucratic processes or a desire to maximize profits. Our goal is to improve lives and improve the world, which is part of what makes JF&CS a special place. Through an integrated portfolio of more than 40 programs reaching communities throughout Eastern and Central Massachusetts, JF&CS focuses on meeting the needs of new parents and their children, older adults and family caregivers, children and adults with disabilities, and people experiencing poverty, hunger, or domestic abuse. We have a strong culture of professional development, work-life balance, and promotion from within.
JF&CS is an equal opportunity employer who serves and employs people of all cultures and faith traditions and highly values diversity, equity, and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all without regard for race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability.
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