Parent-Child Clinician

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Full Time BOSTON, MA, Boston, MA, US

30+ days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $70,000.00 To $74,000.00 Annually

Job Title:
Parent-Child Clinician

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The Salary range varies and will be determined during the offer process based on education, licensure, and skills (e.g., bachelor’s, master’s, unlicensed, independent license, bilingual language capacity.

Program/Department: A-BRIGHT Approach

Position Type: Exempt, Full-Time 40 hours/ week – Hybrid Position (remote and on-site)

Reports to: Director of Early Childhood Trauma Services & A BRIGHT Approach

About IHR
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The Institute for Health and Recovery (IHR) is a statewide service, research, policy, program development and capacity building agency. IHR designs its services based on an understanding of the impact of trauma. IHR’s CARF accredited treatment programs provide holistic interventions for hard to reach and high-risk individuals and families. IHR’s CARF accredited treatment programs provide holistic interventions for hard to reach and high-risk individuals and families.

IHR’s mission, since our founding in 1990, has been to develop and support a comprehensive continuum of care for families, individuals, youth, and pregnant and parenting people affected by alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, violence/trauma, mental health challenges and other health issues, while advancing principles of health equity and social justice. Our work is focused on addressing and eradicating inequities in our health care, economic, and justice systems, especially as they disproportionately affect women and people of color.

We are committed to providing services and creating communities that mitigate the effects of substance use, mental illness, and trauma.

Summary Statement:The Parent-Child Clinician in collaboration with Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) and the Supporting our Families through Addiction and Recovery (SOFAR) clinic at Boston Medical Center (BMC), will provide support and address the needs of young children birth to 6 years old who are facing early relationship challenges related to trauma exposure as a result of parental substance use.

The treatment will focus on issues of maternal self-efficacy, mood and affect regulation and will support positive dyadic interactions and promote healthy infant and healthy child development.

Essential Functions:

• Provide direct evidence-based and/or evidence-informed trauma treatment and services, including screening, diagnostic assessment, community-based engagement/outreach strategies, and care management to children 0-6 years old and their parents who may be from diverse racial and ethnic communities.
• Promote parental capacities for understanding and addressing the impact of trauma in their own and their children’s lives.
• Enhance the quality of the parent-child relationship through supporting positive, pleasurable Interactions and capacities for play.
• Build collaborative relationships with community providers including child-serving systems (e.g., child welfare, law enforcement and courts, juvenile justice system, schools, faith-based entities, primary care, etc.) to promote relationship-based practice and promote best practices for addressing trauma in young children impacted by parental substance use at the local and/or regional levels.
• Participate in all program trainings including Attachment Self-Regulation and Competence (ARC) GROW, Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Attachment Vitamins (AV) and the Nurturing Program (NP).
• Build rapport with clients to supportively challenge negative beliefs and promote positive…