Child First Mental Health and Developmental Clinician

Child First Clinician

At Easterseals PORT Health (ESPH), our mission is rooted in empowering individuals and strengthening communities. We are seeking a passionate Child First Clinician to provide supportive, family-centered care for children and families impacted by mental health challenges in Onslow County, NC and surrounding areas.

This isn't just a job — you will be influencing change and shaping futures in our shared mission of helping people reach their full potential.

Your Role in Our Mission

The Child First Clinician partners with a Family Resource Partner to engage families who are referred to the Child First home-based intervention. Child First's primary goal is to strengthen the caregiver-child relationship so that it serves both as a protective buffer to unavoidable stress and directly facilitates the child's emotional, language, and cognitive growth. The Clinician uses trauma-informed CPP, a relationship-based, dyadic, parent-child treatment model, which focuses on the primary attachment relationships of the young child.

Why Join Us?

As a part of our mission, we help our team members embrace their potential, build resilience, and thrive! You will benefit from ongoing professional growth and development as you work alongside leaders of clinical excellence in mental health and substance use services that care about your success.

We also offer a full benefits package for benefits-eligible positions.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary: $60,000 to $69,000 for this full-time exempt position
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays
• Full benefits package including Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
• Life and Disability Insurance (company paid)
• 403(b) Retirement Plan
• Employee Assistance Program and legal services support
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) qualifying employer
• Mileage reimbursement for all business travel.
• Training provided on the Child First Model and Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)
• Supervision for licensure

What We're Looking For

To join our team, you must provide Child First home-based psychotherapeutic intervention with young children and their caregivers using relational, dyadic psychotherapy (CPP) and other modalities. We also require:

• Full or provisional license as an LCSW (A), LPC/LCMHC (A) or LMFT (A)
• Experience working psychotherapeutically with culturally diverse children and families, including parent-child therapeutic work and play therapy with very young children (0-5 years).
• Valid driver's license, good driving record and current auto insurance.