Early Childhood Mental Health Clinician

Job Details: Job Location: 98 East Avenue - Norwalk, CT, Position Type: Full Time, Education Level: Graduate Degree, Salary Range: $54000.00 - $72000.00Salary/year, Job Shift: Day, Job Category: Health Care, The Early Childhood Mental Health Clinician provides developmentally informed, relationship-based,and trauma-informed mental health assessment and treatment to young children and their caregivers.The Clinician maintains an independent outpatient caseload, providing dyadic, caregiver, family, play-based, and individual treatment as clinically appropriate.Services are primarily office-based, with flexibility for occasional home, early childhood, or community-based visits when appropriate. The Clinician collaborates with caregivers, early care and educationproviders, Care Coordinators, and community partners to support children's social-emotional well-beingand functioning across settings. The position also includes opportunities for consultation, communityengagement, and other program activities.PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES Maintain an assigned outpatient caseload and meet agency and program expectations forproductivity, billable services, and documentation. Conduct developmentally informed clinical assessments incorporating caregiver interviews,observations, screening measures, and relevant collateral information. Develop individualized clinical formulations and treatment plans addressing child development,social-emotional functioning, caregiver-child relationships, family functioning, andenvironmental stressors. Provide dyadic, caregiver, family, play-based, and individual psychotherapy using relationship-based, developmentally appropriate, and trauma-informed approaches. Support caregivers in understanding children's development, behavior, and emotional needswhile strengthening caregiver-child relationships and parenting capacity. Assess and respond to clinical risk, safety concerns, treatment progress, and level-of-care needs,including safety planning and appropriate referrals. Collaborate with Care Coordinators, healthcare providers, early care and education programs,schools, and other providers to support coordinated care and family needs. Partner with early care providers through communication, collaborative planning, andoccasional observation or consultation when clinically appropriate. Provide services primarily in the office, with occasional home, early childhood, or community-based visits based on clinical and program needs. Facilitate or co-facilitate therapeutic, caregiver, or psychoeducational groups as assigned. Participate in community outreach, referral partner engagement, and activities that promoteaccess to early childhood mental health services. Participate in clinical and reflective supervision, team meetings, professional development, andquality-improvement activities. Maintain timely, accurate clinical documentation consistent with agency, regulatory, and payerrequirements. Maintain scheduling flexibility, including some evening appointments or program activities eachweek. Contribute to program development, consultation, training, and other activities as needed. Perform other duties as assigned.Qualifications: Master's degree or higher in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Counseling, Psychology,or a related behavioral health field. Connecticut clinical or associate license in an applicable behavioral health discipline required. Minimum of three years of clinical experience with young children and families, including ages0-5 and their caregivers. Experience with dyadic/parent-child, family, and developmentally appropriate play-basedtreatment. Knowledge of early childhood development and mental health, attachment, family systems,trauma, and caregiver-child relationships. Experience with clinical assessment, risk assessment, safety planning, and crisis intervention. Ability to work effectively with culturally and linguistically diverse families. Training or experience in Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Circle of Security, or other evidence-based/evidence-informed early childhood approaches strongly preferred. Experience collaborating with early care providers and community service systems preferred. Verbal and written fluency in English and Spanish preferred. Ability to travel to community-based service locations as needed.