Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant

Job Title: Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant
Department/Program: IECMH Consultation Program
Reports to: Infant & Early Childhood Program Supervisor and/or Program Manager
Work location: Airport Business Center, Portland OR
FLSA status: Exempt/Salaried
Job Type: Full Time
Salary:
Unlicensed: $33.78/hr. - $35.83/hr. ($70,200/yr. - $74,500/yr.)
Bilingual : $36.82/hr. - $39.06/hr. ($76,500/yr. - $81,200/yr.)
Licensed: $34.94/hr. - $37.09/hr. ($72,600/yr. - $77,100/yr.)
Bilingual : $38.09/hr. - $40.43/hr. ($79,200/yr. - $84,000/yr.)
Morrison Child and Family Services: We are a Joint Commission and Sanctuary accredited non-profit organization that provides a comprehensive array of services to children, adolescents, and their families. As an agency, Morrison, its team members, and clients commit to the following values of trauma-informed care:
Nonviolence - being safe and doing the right thing
Emotional Intelligence - managing our feelings so we don’t hurt ourselves or others
Social Learning - respecting and sharing ideas of our teams
Democracy - shared decision making whenever possible
Open Communication - saying what we mean and not being mean when we say it
Social Responsibility - everyone makes a contribution to the organizational culture
Growth and Change - creating hope for our clients and ourselves
Job Summary:
The Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant (IECMHC) position is responsible for providing a broad range of mental health prevention services including infant/early childhood consultation, staff and parent training, and other mental health prevention and referral services in collaboration with selected early childhood and education sites and/or home visiting programs.
The position involves implementation of evidenced based practice models, including The Georgetown Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation model and Early Childhood Positive Behavioral Intervention & Supports (EC-PBIS/Pyramid Model). For some projects, facilitation of Parent Education curriculums (e.g. The Incredible Years and Circle of Security Parenting) may be required.
Duties and Responsibilities
Provide multi-tiered mental health consultation services: child/family specific, classroom/home, and program-level supports.
Collaborate with early childhood care and education and/or home visiting staff/providers in responding to the social and emotional needs of young children.
Provide brief case management services and referrals to outside community based social services, healthcare providers, mental health treatment services, and early childhood special education providers as desired by family.
Participate in multidisciplinary collaboration meetings with project partners as requested.
Facilitate parent and child groups (Incredible Years, Circle of Security) with measurable fidelity, including video- taping, data collection and documentation and/or other fidelity related activities as needed. (assigned project dependent)
Adhere to the practice, and continued, implementation of the Sanctuary Model.
Assess/screen the social/emotional development of referred children.
Actively participate in regular reflective/ administrative individual and group supervision by preparing ahead of sessions questions to be pursued.
Meet productivity expectations regarding the number of clients served, consultation hours provided, and/or number of groups provided.
Collects/completes tasks for the evaluation of services specific to IECMHC services, groups, and EC-PBIS.
Is aware of Morrison Compliance Program including Compliance Officer, Compliance Standards of Conduct, and Employee Compliance Hotline. Understands Compliance Standards of Conduct and signs attestation document. Completes all assigned compliance, HIPAA, client privacy, and fraud, waste, and abuse training. Knows how to report any client privacy or fraud, waste, or abuse concerns.