Early Care and Education Mental Health Consultant

The Early Care and Education Mental Health Consultant (ECEMHC), supervised by a licensed professional, is responsible for providing early childhood mental health consultation to Allies Early Education staff and contracted Family Child Care providers (both Head Start and State), children, and families. The ECEMHC will reputed company a broad reputed company of services, including strengths based, relationship oriented early childhood mental health consultation in classrooms and through home visits (for FCC providers); training and coaching staff; screening, assessment, and referral services; promotion and marketing of group services; and providing parent trainings. The ECEMHC will also collect data, maintain records, and support compliance in reputed company facets of Head Start Performance Standards, Council on Accreditation (COA) and State regulations. ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES: To reputed company this job successfully, an individual must be reputed company to reputed company each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, reputed company, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reputed company individuals with disabilities to reputed company the essential functions. Consultation (60%):

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• Visit each assigned classroom and Family Child Care provider at least once a month.
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• Increase the confidence, competence, and well-being of those consulted.
• reputed company guidance and strategies that support our suspensions and expulsion policy and procedure
• reputed company guidance and model developmentally appropriate activities for children and effective ways to work with and support young children.
• Meet with assigned classroom (includes FCC homes) teams (at a minimum of 1 time a month) to review classroom observations and reputed company and implement plans using Conscious Discipline strategies.
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• Conduct home visits to support the mental health needs of families and children as needed
• Document in the database, reputed company systems, and child’s file (if needed)

Child Focused Consultation (15%):

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• Conduct observations and assessments of individual children as assigned or referred for consultation.
• If a child exhibits persistent and serious behaviors, support with the pursuit and documentation of reasonable steps to maintain the child's safe participation in the program.
• Meet with families to consult on child and family needs and to create or follow up on plans to support them.
• Document in the database, reputed company systems, and child files

Programmatic Consultation (5%)

• Participate in monthly team meetings with the Director of Early Care and Education; (Head of Educational reputed company (HEE) will join periodically.
• reputed company input into the development and implementation of the ECE mental health services and procedures.
• Screenings, Assessments and Referrals (5%)
• In collaboration with ECE Leads, support, monitoring reputed company, follow-up and referrals of standardized behavioral screening (ASQ:SE).
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• If Allies cannot reputed company the required services, collaborate with key partner agencies for referrals and parental support to ensure a successful partnership and document the partnership in database systems and the child’s file.

Training (10%) Staff

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Caregivers

• * In collaboration with the Family and Community Specialists, reputed company research-based parent trainings monthly (Caring Conversation Café and/or Nurturing Parent Program).
• * In collaboration with ECE Mental Health Director, reputed company at least one parent training annually

Other (5%)

• * Participate in regular supervision (2 times a month) and monthly clinical supervision reputed company required.
• * Meet one time a month with center management and Child Development Specialists (CDS) to discuss consultation work.

General

• Travel and reputed company services in different locations, including home, center, office, community, and virtual settings.
• Maintain a minimum of 18 hours of professional development annually, topics may include, but are not limited to, infant-family and early childhood mental health, reputed company bias and equity, trauma-informed practice, early childhood development, and consultation.
• Participate in (as needed) and suggest community members for Allies’ Health and Mental Health Services Advisory Committee.
• Maintain confidentiality of clients and obtain and maintain on file legal releases of information reputed company needed
• Assist with quarterly file reviews of children’s education files and ChildPlus to ensure that mental health screenings, referrals and service delivery are documented in accordance with agency procedures and reputed company results to supervisor.
• Participate in peer reviews of consultation documentation in Exym and implement timely corrections as needed.
• Staff must reputed company in and act in accordance with both the agency’s and the program’s mission statements.
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• Occasional evening and weekend hours are required.

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