Public Service Intern 1

The Position

Public Service Interns receive training and complete a variety of assignments in staff activities directly relating to their major course of study while enrolled in an educational institution.

Incumbents perform in a trainee capacity and acquire the knowledge, skills and abilities required in this occupation.

The Division of Child and Family Services is recruiting for a Public Service Intern 1 (PSI) with the Latency Age Day Treatment Program Las Vegas. The Latency Age Day Treatment Program provides after-school treatment services in a peer-group setting at a 1 adult to 2 children ratio for children ages seven to eleven using relationship-focused and trauma-informed programming.

The program is aimed towards improving emotional regulation, self-esteem, and child-family relationships through use of trauma-informed, evidenced based interventions that celebrate creativity, artistry, and imagination as powerful tools for mental health treatment. The program provides extensive and ongoing training in evidence-based social and emotional learning/development models, trauma-informed care, and emotional regulation skills. PCIs participate in reflective supervision, attend self-directed and live in-person trainings, engage in shadowing DCFS mental health professionals as they provide in-person mental health services, and provide mental health services to children/caregivers while being shadowed by DCFS mental health professionals.

Interns will be on a multidisciplinary team of trauma-informed mental health professionals to include Developmental Specialists, Child Care Workers, and Psychiatric Case Workers all reporting to a Clinical Program Manager 1. The State of Nevada is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building diverse, inclusive, and innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, domestic partnership, genetic information (GINA), or compensation and/or wages. * THIS RECRUITMENT MAY CLOSE WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED. APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE*

To see full Class Specifications visit: http://hr.nv.gov/Resources/ClassSpecs/Class_Specifications-7_0/