Will you make a difference in the life of a young child?
Savio is urgently hiring for Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Therapists for its Child First program in Denver and Colorado Springs.
Focus on Young Children
You will receive early childhood advanced clinical training and focus exclusively on supporting children from birth to five and their caregivers
Training in Child-Parent Psychotherapy
You will receive formal training in Child-Parent Psychotherapy, an evidence-based program proven to help young children and families heal from stressful and traumatic events
Clinical Supervision
Receive Clinical Supervision to sharpen your skills and work toward licensure (if needed)
Child First Mental Health Developmental Clinician
Position Description:
Join Savio House's Child First team!
The Child First model is an evidence-based, two-generation intervention that works with very vulnerable young children (prenatal through age 5 years) and their families, providing intensive, home-based services to decrease the incidence of serious mental health problems, developmental and learning disabilities, and abuse and neglect.
Child First provides (1) a psychotherapeutic, dyadic intervention to strengthen the parent-child relationship, and (2) care coordination to connect the family to needed services and supports.
Child First has been recognized as an evidence-based home-visiting model by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program and rated “Effective” by the National Registry for Effective Programs and Practice (NREPP) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA).
Salary: $57,000-$58,000
Licensed: $60,000- $61,000
Savio is offering a $3,000 hiring incentive for this position split up over your first year!
Summary of Position
The Child First Mental Health and Developmental Clinician partners with a Family Support Partner to engage families who are referred to the Child First home-based intervention. Child First’s primary goal is to strengthen the caregiver-child relationship so that it serves both as a protective buffer to unavoidable stress and directly facilitates the child’s emotional, language, and cognitive growth. The Clinician uses trauma-informed CPP, a relationship-based, dyadic, parent-child treatment model, which focuses on the primary attachment relationships of the young child. The Clinician engages with both the caregiver and child in a supportive, reflective, and exploratory manner which fosters a protective, nurturing, and responsive parent-child relationship.
The Clinician’s therapeutic intervention focuses on:
1) helping caregivers understand typical developmental challenges and expectations;
2) increasing caregivers’ ability to reflect on the meaning and feelings motivating a child’s behavior;
3) supporting caregivers’ problem-solving; and
4) helping caregivers understand the psychodynamic relationship between parental feelings, history, and the caregiver's response to the child. The Clinician also provides consultation to teachers in early care and education settings, as needed.