Developmental Clinician (LMSW) - Child First

Company: Hartford HealthCare
Location: Plantsville
Posted on: April 16, 2024

Job Description:

Job Schedule: Full Time
Standard Hours: 40
Job Shift: Shift 1
Shift Details: 8:30-5pm Monday through Friday. There may be a need for a later appointment occasionally to accommodate client need.

Work where -every moment -matters.

Every day, over 30,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. - We invite you to become part of Connecticut's most comprehensive healthcare network. -

Charlotte Hungerford Hospital is a 122-bed, general acute care community hospital located in Torrington, Connecticut, that serves as a regional health care resource for the 100,000 residents of Litchfield County and Northwest Connecticut. - -CHH offers personalized attention from an expert team of caregivers and physicians that utilize advanced technology and clinical partnerships in a convenient, safe and comfortable patient environment.


Child First -is a model home-based early childhood intervention, embedded in a system of care, that works to decrease the incidence of serious emotional disturbance, developmental and learning problems, and abuse and neglect among the most vulnerable young children and families.

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Job Description

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• Join an established and multicultural diverse interdisciplinary team at the Charlotte Hungerford Center for Youth and Families - a Nationally Accredited Child Advocacy Center - that provides a safe and therapeutic healing environment for children, teens, and their families. -
  
• The children served in Child First range in age from prenatal up to 6 years of age.
  
• The Center for Youth and Families supports clinicians work - by providing, weekly individual and team clinical supervision, weekly clinical group supervision to review cases and interact with colleagues, professional development opportunities that include training in the Child First model, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, and additional clinical topics, committed focus on employee wellbeing, work-life balance, and professional growth, and regular engagement with Department Medical Director & Administrator.
  
• The Child First Clinician engages with families and the Child First Care Coordinator in the collaborative assessment process. -
  
• The clinician uses all available information to develop a thoughtful, well-integrated clinical formulation and Child and Family Plan of Care in partnership with the Care Coordinator and family.
  
• Provides Child First home-based psychotherapeutic intervention with young children and their caregivers using relational, dyadic psychotherapy (CPP) and other modalities.
  
• Helps caregivers gain insight regarding personal history, feelings for child, and current parenting practices.
  
• Averts crisis situations by assisting the family in times of urgent need in consultation with the Clinical Coordinator and Care Coordinator.
  
• Provides mental health and developmental assessment and consultation within early care and education setting and to other childhood providers.
  
• Keeps all appropriate documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement.
  
• Career development and advancement is available for those who want to participate in department as well as Hartford Healthcare system committees. - -
  
• Experienced staff can explore opportunities to supervise clinicians in our intern program or potentially be selected to participate in leadership development training.
  
  
  Qualifications Qualifications
  
  
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  • Master's degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, or M.S. in Counseling and current State of Connecticut licensure or license eligible as an LCSW, LMFT, or LPC. - -
    
  • Clinical experience in a psychiatric setting working with young children and families preferred. -
    
    
    
    As a Hartford HealthCare entity, Charlotte Hungerford Hospital provides eligible employees with an extensive benefits package consisting of:
    
    
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    • Medical and dental benefits
      
    • 401(k) plan with employer match
      
    • Generous paid time off with accrual starting on the date of hire, including six paid holidays
      
    • Additional voluntary benefits as well as employee discount programs
      
    • Stress free commute; free parking and no shuttles
      
    • Staff kitchen
      
    • Individual offices for full-time clinicians - - - - - - -
      
      
      With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge - helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees- we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance. Every moment matters. And this is -your moment.

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