Clinical Coordinator, Infant Mental Health Specialist

3 days ago


Staten Island, New York, United States Center for Justice Innovation Full time
The Center for Justice Innovation

The Center for Justice Innovation is a community justice organization that centers safety and racial justice. Our mission is to create stronger, healthier, more just communities through innovative, powerful, and durable ways. We partner with community members, courts, and those most impacted to drive justice nationwide.

The Opportunity

The Strong Starts Court Initiative (SSCI) is a special Infant-Focused Court Model with an emphasis on supporting Family Court involved families with subject children under the age of three. The goals of SSCI include increasing communication and collaboration between all parties and creating family-need-specific service plans that promote success and well-being, while keeping the infant's needs, and voice, at the center of planning.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Clinical Coordinator, Infant Mental Health Specialist to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating and completing clinical and developmental screenings, supporting and working with caregivers and families, and collaborating with court personnel and stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in social work, psychology, child development or related field and a minimum of five years' experience working with infants and families, with a strong background in infant mental health including attachment theory and research.

Responsibilities

• Complete clinical and developmental screenings, and comprehensive assessments of infants' development and social-emotional status;
• Provide comprehensive screenings and psycho-social assessments of caregiver and family needs;
• Provide ongoing assessment of parent-child attachment/relationship; capacity, strengths, and areas in need of support;
• Develop family-specific service plans in collaboration with other case planners, including evidence-based infant, adult, and family interventions;
• Facilitate referrals to high-quality services based on assessment in collaboration with Child Protective Services (CPS) or Foster Care Case Planners;
• Track and monitor referral status, client progress, and barriers to treatment;
• Coordinate and provide leadership of monthly Infant/Family focused Clinical Conferences and provide infant focused feedback to Court Team to ensure that infants' needs are expressed and being met;
• Prepare monthly reports for the Judge and Court Team based on ongoing assessment and outcomes of monthly Clinical Conferences;
• Provide infant development and mental health expertise to the Judge and Court Team by way of formal trainings and day-to-day consultation;
• Attend all Court Conferences and multi-disciplinary meetings with CPS/Foster Care Agency and Community Partners;
• Engage community-based service providers and government systems serving infants and families with ongoing outreach in order to form meaningful relationships, collaborate and support family's treatment, and to include community resources in the Court process so they can in turn support families with a higher knowledge of court practices and expectations;
• Participate in quarterly meetings of SSCI Steering Committee;
• Assist with data collection and participate in program evaluation and quality improvement;
• Participate in, and assist with providing training in infant development and infant mental health to the wider Court community and a variety of child welfare system stakeholder groups;
• Additional tasks as needed.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in social work, psychology, child development or related field and a minimum of five years' experience working with infants and families, with a strong background in infant mental health including attachment theory and research. The candidate should also have background in trauma and trauma-informed interventions, knowledge of local infant/family-serving systems and organizations, and ability to work collaboratively with, and provide leadership to, a multidisciplinary practitioner group. Bilingual (English-Spanish) preferred. Knowledge of Family Court, CPS and/or foster agency practice, experience with systems change and community building, and trained in Child Parent Psychotherapy are also required.

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