Clinical Therapist I/II - HealthySteps - Community Health Clinics

ABOUT THE POSITION

Must be Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Candidates who are close to licensure will be considered

Current opening is in Moreno Valley

Hours are generally 8 to 4:30pm - Monday through Friday

The Riverside University Health Systems - Community Health Clinics, HealthySteps department is currently recruiting for a Clinical Therapist I/II position in Moreno Valley .

The innovative HealthySteps approach is based on the most recent scientific understandings of how early childhood development works, and how it can best be supported to ensure individual, family, community, and societal well-being.

HealthySteps, a program working with children between the ages of ZERO TO THREE, promotes nurturing caregiving, which supports families and improves healthy development and well-being of babies and toddlers, preparing them for school and life.

We aim to achieve this goal by weaving together the expertise of a child development expert, the HealthySteps Specialist, and the pediatric primary care provider.

Together, just at the time when the brain is developing most rapidly, these experts bring focus to the important skills needed for families to foster healthy child development and life-long well-being: social emotional development; language and literacy skills; cognition skills; and perceptual, motor and physical development.

The entire practice works together to implement the HealthySteps model, with leadership from a Physician Champion and the HealthySteps Specialist.

The HealthySteps Specialist is an early child development expert who will join the pediatric primary care team at Riverside University Health System to provide interventions, referrals, and follow-up for families with patients ages 0-3.

The HealthySteps Specialist builds strong relationships with families and providers to increase the efficiency of the medical system and support team-based comprehensive care.

Responsibilities:

Preventive and Responsive Care

• Promotes HealthySteps within the practice to families and providers

• Conducts team-based well-child visits before, during, or following the primary care provider Visits focus on monitoring development, social-emotional functioning, and relational health, and providing anticipatory guidance

• Conducts consultations on a short-term basis for needs regarding development and/or behavioral concerns such as sleep, positive parenting, picky eating, etc.

• Maintains a child development support line and responds to and tracks call requests within the designated response time

• Participates in reflective supervision meetings

• May facilitate parent/caregiver groups

Referrals and Community Collaborations

• Creates and maintains community resource directory/database.

Provides referrals and tracks follow-up, as appropriate, to help families make successful connections to key resources within the community.

• Reaches out to community providers within the first...