Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant

Job Title: Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant

Department/Program: IECMH Consultation Program

Reports to: Infant & Early Childhood Program Supervisor and/or Program Manager

Work location: Airport Business Center, Portland OR

FLSA status: Exempt/Salaried

Job Type: Full Time

Salary: Unlicensed: $33.78/hr – $35.83/hr ($70,200/yr – $74,500/yr);
Bilingual Spanish: $36.82/hr – $39.06/hr ($76,500/yr – $81,200/yr);
Licensed: $34.94/hr – $37.09/hr ($72,600/yr – $77,100/yr);
Bilingual Spanish: $38.09/hr – $40.43/hr ($79,200/yr – $84,000/yr)

The Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant (IECMHC) position is responsible for providing a broad range of mental health prevention services including infant/early childhood consultation, staff and parent training, and other mental health prevention and referral services in collaboration with selected early childhood and education sites and/or home visiting programs. The position involves implementation of evidence-based practice models, including The Georgetown Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation model and Early Childhood Positive Behavioral Intervention & Supports (EC-PBIS/Pyramid Model).

For some projects, facilitation of Parent Education curriculums (e.g., The Incredible Years and Circle of Security Parenting) may be required.

• Provide multi-tiered mental health consultation services: child/family specific, classroom/home, and program-level supports.
• Collaborate with early childhood care and education and/or home visiting staff/providers in responding to the social and emotional needs of young children.
• Provide brief case management services and referrals to outside community-based social services, healthcare providers, mental health treatment services, and early childhood special education providers as desired by family.
• Participate in multidisciplinary collaboration meetings with project partners as requested.
• Facilitate parent and child groups (Incredible Years, Circle of Security) with measurable fidelity, including video-taping, data collection and documentation and/or other fidelity related activities as needed. (assigned project dependent)
• Adhere to the practice of the Sanctuary Model and its continued implementation.
• Assess/screen the social/emotional development of referred children.
• Actively participate in regular reflective and administrative individual and group supervision by preparing ahead of sessions questions to be pursued.
• Meet productivity expectations regarding the number of clients served, consultation hours provided, and/or number of groups provided.
• Collect and complete tasks for the evaluation of services specific to IECMHC services, groups, and EC-PBIS.
• Demonstrate a commitment to developing thorough knowledge and application of the Sanctuary model and other organizational policies & practices.
• Participate in staff development, in-services, and training related to workplace effectiveness; model professional behaviors and implement improvements to business practices with awareness of their impact in a trauma-informed behavioral healthcare organization.
• Other duties as assigned to ensure successful operation of program/department.

• Understanding the integration of infant/early childhood development and mental health; able to promote reflective capacity of early childhood providers to facilitate the healthy social and emotional development of children.
• Knowledge of effective training and group facilitation skills; able to implement parent education/training models to fidelity.
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse populations in a variety of environments, particularly early childhood care and education settings; ability to exercise tact, discretion, and judgment in working with a variety of people.
• Demonstrated skills in early childhood outreach, including varied and creative strategies to extend services to families.
• Establishes and maintains effective collaborative relationships with assigned consultation sites, relevant child and family-serving agencies within the community, and children and families within those environments.
• Uses a variety of observation…