Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant (Sign-on Eligible)
The Home for Little Wanderers

Job Info

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This position is eligible for up to a $5,000 sign-on bonus!

When you join The Center for Early Childhood @ Home for Little Wanderers, you join a team of professionals dedicated to partnering with families to promote optimal emotional health for young children and the adults who care for them.

The Center for Early Childhood combines services formerly known as the Preschool Outreach Project or POP and the Rice Center. Through a variety of direct care services and training programs, The Center works with children, parents/caregivers, and professionals to help build and support strong social-emotional foundations for happy, healthy childhoods. The Center provides age-appropriate, culturally sensitive interventions for children and families in a variety of settings including our child-friendly clinic, homes, early education settings, shelters, and community spaces.

How You Will Be Making a Difference

We need an innovative, flexible, and organized self-starter to join our team of mental health consultants. This new role will focus on bringing mental health consultation to the Family Child Care setting. Initially the position will develop protocols and materials in partnership with internal and external stakeholders. After this start-up phase the position will shift from program development into direct service in family child care settings.

Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation is a prevention-based intervention that addresses the developmental, social-emotional, and behavioral challenges of children. The service is designed to build program capacity and school success by:

• Identifying, preventing, and reducing the impact of behavioral and emotional distress of young children
• Providing interventions and strategies that address concerning or challenging behaviors
• Supporting programs' abilities to successfully retain children to prevent suspensions or expulsions using evidence-based approaches
• Reducing educator stress/turnover

Job Responsibilities

• Work independently and collaboratively (as appropriate) to develop protocols and materials to establish new program components.
• Provide short term social-emotional technical assistance, coaching and training to family child care programs utilizing evidence-based assessment and related tools such as Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool (TPOT), Pyramid Infant-Toddler Observation Scale (TPITOS), MA Early Learning Guidelines for Infants and Toddlers, MA Preschool Early Learning Guidelines, MA Curriculum Frameworks for Preschool and, Preschool and Kindergarten Social-Emotional Development and Approaches to Play and Learning, MA QRIS Standards, Environmental Rating Scales, Classroom Assessment Scoring System, Ages and Stages Questionnaire and Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (Deca-C).
• Work in-person at family child care settings (private homes) to observe, coach, and support educators, children, and families
• Establish relationships with adults to provide knowledge and skills to promote positive relationships and nurturing environments for all children
• Identify and initiate a response to unmet need for direct services through the collaborative efforts of the team (may include facilitating referrals for case management, clinical therapy, and/or family support services)
• Collaborate to create and maintain collaborative partnerships with programs to strengthen the knowledge and capacity of adults in children's lives
• Facilitate groups and skill-building events for children, caregivers, families, and professionals.
• Produce documentation and program materials in a timely manner.
• Actively participate in training and learning opportunities to grow and develop personally and professionally.
• Demonstrate commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and The Home's becoming an anti-racist institution.
• Actively participate in supervision and meetings including individual, group, and team constellations. Consult with supervisor and team members on challenging or difficult client issues.
• Abide by all laws - both federal and state - relating to confidentiality of client information and follow appropriate confidentiality protocols regarding sharing of clinical information with program staff and other parties, maintaining all necessary releases of information in order to provide services.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Applicants are strongly encouraged to provide a cover letter outlining their interest in this specific job description.
• Highly engaging professional development presentation abilities
• Application of principles of adult learning to design and deliver effective professional development
• Prior experience providing services to children 0-6
• Excellent cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Computer literate, including Microsoft Office, with the ability to learn new software applications
• Ability to travel to community settings in and around Boston (via personal transportation or public transit)
• ECMH Consultants must have a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in a related field such as early childhood education, child development, social work, psychology, family therapy, behavioral health therapist and 3-5 years working in the field with young children.
• Highly preferred:
• Ability to provide services in a second language; Identified need for Spanish fluency.
• Experience working in a family child care setting
• Knowledgeable of DEEC licensing regulations, early learning standards, Head Start Standards and IDEA requirements.

Valuing Diversity

We are committed to excellence in diversity, equity, and inclusion, while simultaneously creating a culture that supports those values. We believe the differences we bring enhance our ability to provide exceptional service and care to diverse children, families, and communities. Moreover, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging align with our values and our mission to help vulnerable children and their families build permanent, positive change.
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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