Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Consultant is responsible for providing hope centered and trauma informed Mental Health consultation and support. The IECMH Consultant collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to provide IECMH consultation to support relational health and well-being for Early Childhood staff, children, and their families. The IECMH Consultant will utilize evidence-based and best practice standards to ensure quality service delivery and support to clients and agency partners while ensuring compliance to agency policy, accrediting bodies, and state licensure requirements. Teachers.

IECMH Consultations are expected to deliver high quality, client centered, and impactful services evidenced by positive outcome measurements and client self-reports.

All employees and volunteers are expected to reflect Sunbeam Family Services' core values and to perform at Sunbeam's standards of excellence at all times.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Demonstrate capacity for providing developmentally sensitive, evidence-based, culturally sensitive, hope-centered, and trauma-informed services.

• Deliver high quality, client-centered, impactful services evidenced by positive outcome measurements and client self-reports.

• Provide case management and advocacy for clients, assisting them in obtaining needed benefits and resources, including, but not limited to: housing; employment; medical, recreation; social and family supports; nutritional information; medications, and childcare needs.

• Differentiated responsibilities and activities are required for diverse client care, including consultation, client advocacy, goal planning, crisis intervention and follow up as needed, and education using agency-approved, evidenced based practices.

• Facilitate referral of potential or current clients into the appropriate agency program(s) or to another community provider or partner if appropriate and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings as necessary.

• Consultant will provide IECMHC to ECE centers, teachers, and home-based providers identified through referral from the Warmline, treatment team referral, or community connections.

• Consultant may provide teleconsultation to home visitors or Early Intervention staff when appropriate to effectively address the social emotional needs of infants and toddlers within the service area.

• Consultant will collaborate with local IMH clinicians to identify possible ECE centers for outreach and education.

• Consultant will conduct outreach services to early childhood educators and centers to promote utilization of IECMHC services.

• Consultant will develops written intervention strategies using a team approach to assist staff with positive behavior-support strategies to promote infants' and young children's optimal social-emotional development.

• Consultant will participate in monthly technical assistance virtual meetings that include presentation of relevant content and/or case consultation.

• Consultant may conduct trainings in their region for parents, community partners, and/or early childhood educators on relevant content including, but not limited to trauma, infant mental health, child development, reflective practice, etc.

• Accurately complete all record keeping, documentation, and reporting functions in a timely manner as required by program and/or agency policy utilizing the agency designated Electronic Health Record (EHR) or other reporting systems.

• Consultant will participate in meetings with CCFF grant team at least monthly (either via phone, email, Zoom, or in person).

• Consultant will participate in monthly meetings with the IECMHC training centers.

• Consultant will participate in ongoing reflective consultation.

• Consultant will attend local, regional or state meetings for the purpose of improving interagency collaboration and service delivery that supports growth of IECMHC network.

• Participate in consultation as well as seek and accept consultation from leadership on challenging or difficult issues.

• Represent Sunbeam in a professional manner, which may include community interactions, consultation and education to staff and community partners, and presentations (including media and in person), etc.

• Knowledgeable of agency policies and procedures and ensure compliance with agency accrediting and oversight bodies, including but not limited to Head start, COA, ODMSHSAS, OHCA, and others as applicable.

• Maintain professional competency in their discipline through appropriate readings, attendance at workshops/trainings, and through consultation with other professionals while complying with all requirements to maintain professional licensure or licensure candidacy, as applicable.

• Adhere to the Sunbeam Code of Ethics, HIPAA, and other confidentiality policies/practices while maintaining professional standards at all time.

• Travel locally as required in the performance of responsibilities.

• Perform other appropriate and related responsibilities as assigned by supervisor, Senior Program Director, or Executive Team member.

Qualifications

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

Minimally Required

Preferred

Education

Master's Degree in Psychology, Social Work, or a related human services field.

License / Certification

Licensed in the State of Oklahoma in one of the mental health disciplines. Prefer licensed LCSW, LPC, LMFT, LCSW, or LBP.

A therapist who is under supervision for licensure may be considered, depending on experience.

If licensed, employee must complete continuing education requirements required for licensure maintenance.

Licensure in the State Of Oklahoma in one of the mental health disciplines Prefer licensed LCSW, LPC, LMFT, or LBP.

Endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Specialist or Infant Mental Health Mentor (Clinical)

Experience

Experience providing services for families with young children

Experience Collaborating with community Partners

Experience providing clinical services for families with young children

Experience providing infant and early childhood mental health consultation in an early care and education setting (i.e. child care, Head Start)

Experience providing mentoring to consultants or other providers

Experience providing training or presentations to community members

Experience providing reflective consultation

Skills

Knowledge

Abilities

Employee must have education and preferably experience in providing individual, family and group therapy.

Caring and compassionate attitude when interacting with all individuals.

Accepting interpersonal approach that reflects cultural sensitivity to the unique and diverse experiences of families served.

Willingness to work with high-risk, low-income communities.

Interact effectively and professionally with children, families, and staff members.

Knowledge and basic understanding of the DSM-5 and its applications.

Able to assess clients for psychosocial information and develop this information into a working treatment plan.

Knowledge and understanding of providing services to a culturally diverse population.

Able to accurately record services provided using a CRM, EHR, or other designated electronic data tracking tool.

Able to effectively and respectfully communicate in a manner that consistently demonstrates respect and concern.

Excellent command of English language and grammar, both verbal and written.

Interact effectively and professionally with clients and staff members.

Able to work autonomously without constant supervision.

Able to demonstrate the use of sound clinical judgment as it pertains to client welfare.

Process, protect, and exercise discretion in handling confidential information and materials

Intermediate knowledge of computer operations and applications, including Microsoft, and the ability to master other computer technology / software programs as required by payor sources.

Must be able to accurately complete clinical documents, in writing and in Electronic Health Record, including, but are not limited to, the following: progress notes to record activity from consultations, psychosocial and various other assessments; treatment plans etc.

Valid Oklahoma driver's license and state required vehicle insurance for any vehicle used in performance of job duties.

Specialized training in working with individuals of all ages.

Bilingual Spanish/English speaking ability to interact with individuals from multilingual homes

WORKING CONDITIONS

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to frequently communicate with staff and others, and must be able to exchange accurate information when doing so. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time and occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office equipment, attend meetings, etc. Must be able to detect, discern, distinguish, observe, inspect and compare. Occasionally must be able to move needed materials weighing up to 40 pounds.

Work Environment

Provide therapy in an office, school, or other community setting (school-based or community setting, limited home based setting for Sunbeam Foster Families), Will work in close proximity to client(s), staff, and children. The noise level in the work environment may vary from moderate to loud. The noise level in the work environment varies from moderate to loud; frequent chaotic situations will occur, characteristic to working with children ages 0 - 5 years. Employee must expect exposure to strong odors such as soiled diapers and clothes, and poor hygiene. May come into contact with childhood diseases and blood on occasion. Some clinical services may be provided virtually as approved. All services provided remotely must be conducted in compliance with all Sunbeam policies and procedures.

Other

The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. The qualifications, physical demands, and work environment described herein are representative of those an employee will encounter and must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel or candidate and may be subject to change at any time. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

Sunbeam Family Services is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are committed to fair and equal in all its employment practices for persons without regard to race, ethnicity, color, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, disability or degree thereof, national origin, domestic/marital status, political affiliation or opinion, veteran status, HIV status, AIDS status, genetic information, and any characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.