Child First Family Resource Partner-ScotlandCounty

JOB TITLE: Child First Family Resource Partner(Scotland County)

JOB POSTING:

Family Resource Partner partners with a Mental Health and Developmental Clinician to support families referred to Child First. The Family Resource Partner works collaboratively with the family to connect the child and family with desired communitybased services and supports while maintaining Child Firsts reflective relationshipbased stance. The Family Resource Partner also enhances caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g. planning organizing managing time focusing attention regulating emotions reflecting on progress) and engages the caregiverchild dyad in activities to strengthen the attachment relationship. Through their work with families the Family Resource Partner both decreases the toxic stress in the home environment and enhances opportunities for optimal child development thereby promoting healthy brain development for infants and young children. The Family Resource Partner utilizes therapeutic interventions focusing on helping the caregiver to reflect on the meaning and feelings motivating a childs behavior and providing psychoeducation regarding child development. The Family Resource Partner also utilizes Abecedarian techniques to promote healthy attachment and development of the child.

REQUIRED EDUCATIONAL/EXPERIMENTAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Completion of Bachelors Degree within Human Service field preferred.
• Meets requirements under 10A NCAC 27G.0104 as a Qualified Professional for Mental Health.
• Experience working psychotherapeutically with culturally diverse children and families including parentchild therapeutic work and play therapy with very young children 05 years) for a minimum of three years is highly valued.

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS:

• Provide community resource expertise to Child First team and families including identifying and collaborating with communitybased service providers and supports.
• Engage with the Child First family and the Clinician in the collaborative family assessment process (i.e. use data from interviews observations interactions and standardized measures to identify family strengths needs and challenges).
• Promote family stabilization by working collaboratively with family to identify and support needs (both urgent and longterm) integrating service needs into the Child and Family Plan of Care and addressing barriers to services as they arise.
• Enhance caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g. planning organizing managing time focusing attention regulating emotions reflecting on progress) as needed and in consultation with the Clinician and Clinical Supervisor.
• Maintain a reflective stance when engaging with the caregiver to understand their motivation needs and possible barriers to new services and supports.
• Use videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reflective supervision.
• Utilize Abecedarian techniques to promote healthy attachment and development of the child.
• Provide the family with interactive growthpromoting play experiences.
• Engage in weekly individual team and group reflective clinical supervision with Clinical Supervisor.
• Engage actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative including inperson or liveremote training distance learning curriculum and specialty training.
• Track completion of all assessments and enter in the appropriate database.
• Keep all appropriate documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement.
• Maintain schedule and complete tasks to achieve home visiting Benchmarks and meet Accreditation standards.
• Provide mental health and developmental assessment and consultation within early care and education settings and to other early childhood providers.
• Participate in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Openness to learning capacity for selfreflection and eagerness to participate in reflective clinical supervision.
• Knowledge of relationshipbased psychodynamic intervention and early child development; parentchild relationships and attachment theory; effects of trauma and environmental risks on early childhood brain development especially violence exposure maternal depression and substance abuse; and communitylevel risk factors (e.g. poverty homelessness).
• Experience providing mental health assessment and consultation to early care and education sites.
• Knowledge and experience working with adults with mental health substance use and cognitive challenges.
• Experience providing intervention within diverse home and community settings.
• Ability to speak a second language (Spanish Portuguese Creole other) highly valued.
• Strong commitment to the vision mission and goals of Child First.
• Highly organized selfmotivated reliable and flexible (including willingness to work nontraditional hours including at least one evening).
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Able to communicate well verbally and in writing.
• Comfortable with computers and experienced with Word and Excel.
• Reliable vehicle and appropriate insurance for home visits.

SALARY & BENEFITS:

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Comprehensive medical dental and vision insurance
• Educational loan repayment programs & Career growth
• Retirement savings plan/401K
• Paid time off programs rollover hours 14 paid holidays
• Employee engagement activities resource groups and diversity events

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested candidates should submit their resume and cover letter through our Careers Page. If you require an accommodation during the application process please contact us at .

We look forward to reviewing your application!

EEO STATEMENT

Coastal Horizons is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sexual orientation gender gender identity and expression national origin age disability or protected veteran status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our associates