Early Childhood Therapist

Job Summary and Job Description

Job Title: Early Childhood Attachment Therapist

Department: Early Childhood Attachment

Reports To: Early Childhood Attachment Supervisor

Pay Range: $49,920.00- $55,250.00

Classification: Full Time Salaried
- Exempt

D.A. Blodgett
- St. John's provides a continuum of care with comprehensive services, including counseling, foster care, adoption, mentoring and residential care. These programs are built on our core belief, backed by research, that as long as children can be safe, they do best when they are with their families. D.A. Blodgett
- St. John's primarily serves children, youth and families in the greater Grand Rapids area, and some programming throughout the State of Michigan. D.A. Blodgett
- St. John's is dedicated to providing an inclusive and welcoming experience for all children, all families and all individuals.

To help children and empower families by providing safety, advocacy, and support.

A safe, nurturing home for every child, a supportive community for every family.

• Exceptional Service:
  Client-focused and teaming at the center of our work.
• Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion:
  All are welcomed, valued, and belong.
• Excellence:
  Ongoing commitment to learning and improvement.
• Integrity:
  Responsibility and ownership of our actions and results.
• Creativity:
  Imagination, innovation, and intelligent risk taking.
• Passion:
  Relentless positive energy toward our mission and vision.

• Nonviolence:
  Maintaining safety for all members of the community.
• Emotional Intelligence:
  Managing emotions so we don't hurt ourselves or others.
• Social Learning:
  Together we accomplish more, we care for one another.
• Democracy:
  Everyone has a voice, not necessarily a vote.
• Open Communication:
  Respecting and sharing ideas of our team.
• Social Responsibility:
  Say what you mean, don't be mean when you say it.
• Growth & Change:
  Creating hope for ourselves and the people we serve.

Early Childhood Attachment Services is designed to provide home based parent/caregiver-infant support and clinical intervention (i.e. therapy) services to families where the parent/caregiver's condition and life circumstances, or the characteristics of the infant/toddler, threaten the parent/caregiver- infant/toddler attachment and consequent social, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development of the infant/toddler. Includes utilizing the Infant Mental Health model (training provided) and providing consultation support to childcare centers.

Services are designed to reduce the incidence and prevalence of abuse, neglect, developmental delays, behavioral issues, and emotional disturbances.

• Manage an average caseload of 18 families while meeting face-to-face client contact expectations typically over 2 to 3 visits a month. When a client goes between two or more homes or caregivers, the therapist will divide their time between those settings based on needs of the child and caregivers.
• Able to meet clients with their families in community-based settings (i.e. client’s home or public place that can accommodate privacy) during hours that meet the family's needs.
• Provides direct service to include intake, assessment, individual/family therapy, and crisis interventions to families and on time objective documentation of these services in the electronic client record.
• Provides support and guidance to child care centers, in an effort to prevent expulsion.
• Utilize the Infant Mental Health model, provide parent-child psychotherapy and play therapy interventions that best fit the family's needs based on your level of training.
• Assess the needs of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families. Monitor child development using developmental assessments at intake and as needed to assess progress.
• Provide parent/caregivers with education, resources and training pertaining to child and family development.
• Provide services with cultural humility, respecting diverse family structures, traditions and parenting practices.
• Assist supervisor with child & parent/caregiver support group activities when needed.
• Participate in required case-related activities such as school/daycare meetings and occasional court hearings for case coordination and advocacy purposes when needed.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with other programs in the agency and in the community for the purpose of care coordination.
• Assist families in scheduling evaluations and other services as needed while helping to identify and solve barriers to those services if applicable.
• Participate in monthly team meetings, monthly reflective supervision and at minimum monthly individual supervision if fully licensed and bi-weekly individual supervision if limited licensed with demonstrated ability to implement feedback from supervisor.
• Complete agency required expectations such as timesheets and mileage reimbursement by required deadlines. Additionally, therapist should keep Outlook calendar up to date with client…