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INTRODUCTION

The Early Childhood Group and In-home Therapist has responsibilities shared between providing group therapy/skills in our therapeutic preschool classroom and providing in home therapy. Therapists help strengthen the parent/child relationship while supporting children’s social, emotional and behavioral functioning across all areas of development.

This role will provide in home, early childhood mental health assessment, treatment, screening, and community-based consultation services to children ages birth to five and their families. Utilize the Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) model to affect change within the child-parent relationship. The focus is on the emotional quality of the child-parent relationship with simultaneous attention to the individual contributions that each partner makes to the interaction. Provide both direct billable assessment and treatment services and non-billable screening, referral, and care coordination. Participate in required trainings and professional development activities related to early childhood mental health including cultural competency training, and the DC:0-5 assessment training.

Additionally, this role will provide early childhood therapeutic groups services, utilizing the Developmental Repair framework to deliver early childhood day treatment services by facilitating individual and group therapy and skills interventions as part of the treatment team. Children in the program are from ages 33 months up to kindergarten who are struggling with social emotional and regulation skills and may have experienced traumatic events.

Responsibilities

Clinical Treatment

Clinicians will provide services to educate and support families to become empowered to better self-advocate and navigate the various systems with more confidence and skill, as well as providing specialized direct services to children and their families, in their homes and the clinic-based setting to include the following services:

Group Therapy

Clinicians will be required to provide group therapy, including the following:

• Work with co-group facilitators to provide and lead scheduled early childhood day treatment group services
• Plan and implement therapeutic activities based on the child’s individual treatment plan goals and objectives, developmental needs, and therapeutic group themes
• Lead a group environment that demonstrates consistency, respectful communication, safety, predictability, clear limits, and encouragement
• Child observation in community classroom settings
• Intervene respectfully, safely, and directly to maintain the children’s physical and emotional safety and use therapeutic approaches to help prevent aggressive, destructive, and harmful behavior
• Care coordination, including collaboration with other professionals working with the child
• Work with co-facilitators, program supervisors, and program support to manage referrals and caseload
• Create a discharge plans
• Provide a safe and welcoming physical group therapy environment by ensuring the room, toys, books, and furniture in are in good condition, interesting, clean, and represents the diverse cultural and developmental needs of the clients. Prepare the rooms, order supplies, and maintain the group therapy space
• Ability to use and apply therapeutic methods learned through the Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) which includes verbal de-escalation and therapeutic holds

Clinical Therapy

Clinicians will be expected to provide family therapy and support, including:

• Conduct DC 0-5 diagnostics assessment
• Develop and implement a treatment plan with the family based on the diagnosis
• Implement Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) to strengthen the parent-child attachment relationship; address traumatic events/triggers; locate protective factors; promote hope; provide developmental guidance and provide emotional support
• Care coordination, including collaboration with daycares, psychiatrists and other professionals working with the child and meeting regularly with co-group facilitators to share information regarding clients
• Create a discharge plan
• This position will be required to maintain monthly services consistent with budgeted client service expectations, on average it is about 6-7 billable sessions week.

Documentation

Clinicians will be expected to maintain required documentation as specified in our Clinical Policy Manual, including:

• Diagnostics assessments
• Treatment plans for each client
• Daily progress notes
• Record keeping of all clinical activities and grant related services
• Outcome instruments and assessment tools, including but not limited to the DC 0-5 assessment, Preschool SDQ and ECSII
• Discharge summaries
• Satisfaction surveys
• Timely response of communications from the program director, the supervisor, or program support to ensure clear communication throughout the program
• Maintain current, timely authorizations for all therapeutic services form Medical Assistance, commercial insurance, or Hennepin County

All clinicians are to ensure Minnesota and HIPAA data privacy requirements are followed.

Supervision and Professional Development

Clinicians are expected to:

• Attend weekly supervision and case consultation, present case information and formulation, and identify questions for consultation and supervision
• Receive training in CPP as needed
• Maintain required CEUs

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Master’s degree or equivalent in social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, or related field from accredited college is required
- Training in DC 0-5 Diagnostic Assessments is required
- One year of supervised clinical experience or completion of related internship is required
- Valid MN licensure as a Mental Health Professional is required
- Training in CPP is preferred