Mental Health Professional​/Mental Health Consultant

Description

Easterseals Blake Foundation started as the Cerebral Palsy Foundation of Southern Arizona. Since then, we have expanded our services to better serve our community members. We are now one of Arizona's top providers of comprehensive behavioral health services, child welfare, and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We serve more than 40,000 individuals and families across 10 counties and support more than 3,700 children in Foster Care throughout Southern Arizona.

Are you ready to make profound, positive differences in people's lives every day?

We offer our full-time employees the following benefits:

• Payment assistance for licensure applications and fees once approved
• Public Loan Forgiveness
• Training in evidenced-based practices
• Flexible work schedule (ability to work weekends and evenings)
• Team Environment
• Full Robust Benefits package
• Medical, Dental and Vision
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Life insurance
• Voluntary Short-term Disability insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Accident insurance
• Employer paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program

Easterseals Blake Foundation is hiring for Mental Health Consultants in Southern Arizona. Mental health consultation is at the cutting edge of research, policy, and practice in early childhood social-emotional development, and was heavily featured at recent national Zero to Three Annual Conferences.

Mental Health Consultants provide services for children birth to 5 in the childcare setting centered around increasing childcare providers’ capacity to meet the social-emotional needs of children in their care. Through a supportive, intentional relationship, consultants are able to partner with childcare providers around trying new behaviors which lead to best practices and better outcomes for young children.

This position requires traveling. Travel would be required weekly or bi-weekly to provide services in-person to the San Carlos. Hotel stays may be supported by the agency in whole or in part, depending on frequency and duration of travel, while funds are available. Company vehicles are available for use. Details are flexible and can be worked out upon application.

Supports young children’s social and emotional health indirectly by strengthening the adult caregivers’ capacity to foster children’s healthy social and emotional development – early and before formalized intervention is needed.

• Acts as a resource regarding early childhood development, emphasizing emotional and behavioral health and the importance of the relationship between the participant and child/family.
• Completes technical assistance plans to support participants, children, and staff. Develops and implements a plan to deliver Technical Assistance, including a written agreement between Easterseals Blake Foundation, the recipient of Technical Assistance, and the Director or Program Administrator.
• Provides observations and recommendations regarding the social-emotional environment to assist in identifying children in need of support with behavioral, emotional, or developmental concerns. Develops intervention strategies utilizing a team approach to assist staff in developing positive behavior support strategies to promote optimal social-emotional development.
• Collaborates with childcare providers, families, directors, managers, and other team members to build their knowledge and skills to support the needs of children and families.
• Provides group and individual training on overall social and emotional wellness with specific topics related to child development, trauma-informed care, attachment, self-care, and other related topics. Ensures attendees complete evaluation forms for training and technical assistance sessions.
• Partners and supports early care and education providers to support ongoing communication with parents regarding mental health, behavioral, or developmental concerns of their children.
• Provides technical assistance in 3-hour increments to Group Homes, Child Care Centers, Home…