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Job description
At Coastal Horizons, our mission is to provide a continuum of professional services to promote healthier lives, stronger families, and safer communities. We are currently seeking a motivated and passionate Child First Family Resource Partner servicing in Guilford and Randolph Counties to join our dynamic team. If you're looking for an opportunity to make a difference, we invite you to explore the exciting positions available with us.
Job Title: Child First Family Resource Partner
Schedule: 9am-7pm Monday-Friday
Service Location: Guilford and RandolphCounties
JOB POSTING:
Provide community resource expertise to Child First team and families, including identifying and collaborating with community-based service providers and supports.
Engage with the Child First family and the Therapist 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 long-term), 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 Therapist and Coordinator.
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, growth-promoting play experiences.
Engage in weekly individual, team, and group reflective clinical supervision with Coordinator
Engage actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative, including in-person or live-remote 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.
REQUIRED EDUCATIONAL/EXPERIMENTAL QUALIFICATIONS: Completion of Bachelor's 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 parent-child therapeutic work and play therapy with very young children (0-5 years), for a minimum of three years is highly valued.
POSITION HIGHLIGHTS: Openness to learning, capacity for self-reflection, and eagerness to participate in reflective clinical supervision.
Knowledge of relationship-based, psychodynamic intervention and early child development; parent-child relationships and attachment theory; effects of trauma and environmental risks on early childhood brain development, especially violence exposure, maternal depression, and substance abuse; and community-level 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, self-motivated, reliable, and flexible (including willingness to work non-traditional 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.
Must have a valid driver's license and be able to work in community settings.
REQUEST FOR ACCOMIDATIONS:
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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.
Worksite address
greensboro, NC, 27497, US
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