Mental Health Clinician/Consultant - Sana Sana/SPARK

AGENCY DESCRIPTION:

Instituto Familiar de la Raza, Inc. is a multi-service community health and social service agency with an emphasis on serving the Chicanx/Latinx/Indígenx community in San Francisco. Services include a wide range of mental health and behavioral health, HIV-related services, and social services, including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management, support groups, cultural interventions, and social and spiritual engagement. IFR serves children, youth, adults and families, and multiple subpopulations, including youth, the Indígena, and LGBTQ+ youth and adults. The organization has a rich history of working collaboratively with other agencies to meet the needs of the Chicanx/Latinx/Indígenx community and other cultural/racial communities in San Francisco. We accomplish this by providing culturally integrated services rooted in our three pilares: Tú eres mi otro yo, La cultura cura, and Sí se puede.

JOB/PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

The Sana Sana Program offers a continuum of mental health consultation services to diverse Latino/multicultural early education and school-based settings in San Francisco. Additionally, the Sana Sana Program provides comprehensive, holistic, wrap-around services to families with young children (0-5) living in public housing who have experienced trauma. This sub-team is named SPARK (Strong Parents And Resilient Kids)

The SPARK team is seeking a bicultural/bilingual mental health professional who is enthusiastic, talented and has experience working with multicultural communities, in particular the African-American community. The position requires a minimum of two (2) years experience in health and social service fields, knowledge of child development, ability to bridge and build relationships, and experience with or interest in providing Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). The primary goal of the wrap-around program is to support and strengthen the relationship between a young child and his or her parent (or caregiver) as a vehicle for restoring the child's sense of safety, strengthening their attachment relationships (increasing attunement & responses to emotional needs), and improving the child's cognitive, behavioral, and social functioning. We accomplish this through client-centered, nonjudgmental, culturally and linguistically appropriate services.

Extensive training on working with young children who have experienced trauma will be provided, as well as the opportunity to be trained and rostered in Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP).

Essential Job Duties are but are not limited to the following

Provide intensive wrap-around service (including clinical case management) with a focus on CPP therapy to a small caseload of families (6-8 families)
Manage and build community relationships that support a holistic, strength-based, culturally responsive system of care for families
Collaborate closely with the Wellness Center CBO’s and partners within the housing development to leverage relationships and integrate services
Responsible for maintaining service documentation and client files
Participate in all training opportunities and learning circles on CPP in order to implement CPP with fidelity
Attend supervision and agency-wide meetings, and represent the program and agency professionally
Participate and support community events

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Minimum of two years’ experience delivering services to children 0-5 and their families
A minimum of 2 years of experience in the health and social service field with Clinical Case Management experience
Demonstrated experience working on issues of complex trauma, parent-child relationships, attachment, service integration, and holistic interventions that are culturally responsive to Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander and African American communities
Demonstrated ability to work independently and take initiative
Experience in settings that required maintaining confidential client information
Ability to work occasional evenings and/or weekends
Computer, internet and social media proficiency

PREFERRED SKILLS:

Bicultural competency
Home visiting experience
Experience with program evaluation
Experience working with Human Service Agencies and Child Protective Services

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND LICENSES

Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or related behavioral services
Must be CA licensed or license eligible (registered with the Board of Behavioral Sciences or Board of Psychology)

CONDITIONS OF CONTINUED EMPLOYMENT

Must pass and maintain annual tuberculosis test
Must pass Department of Justice Fingerprint screening

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS²

This is a full-time (35 hours per week) exempt position with benefits. The incumbent will be hired as either a Mental Health Clinician I or Mental Health Clinician II based on licensure and/or experience.

The salary range for Mental Health Specialist I is $72,500 - $81,500, and the salary for Mental Health Specialist II is $78,000 - $88,000.

All positions at IFR working 17.50 hours per week or more are eligible to participate in benefit health plans, including medical, dental, vision, 403(b) plan, EAP, Life Insurance, earn vacation, sick leave, paid holidays, and ongoing opportunities for learning.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here represent what an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations can be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

General ability to communicate effectively in person or via telephone in a manner that can be understood by those with whom the person is speaking too, including a diverse population
General alertness to address emergency or potentially dangerous situations
Requires physical ability to remain seated at a desk for long periods of time when needed
Basic manual dexterity to operate work processing equipment with skill, speed, and accuracy
Must be able to view computer for long periods of time
Ability to use public and/or private modes of transportation; duties are office-based, but travel to various offsite venues is required
Activities that occur infrequently are: bending, squatting, crouching, kneeling, twisting, reaching straight, above or below shoulders
On occasion, must lift up to 35 LBS

TO APPLY:

Interested applicants should send an email to [email protected] with “Mental Health Specialist/Consultant" in the subject line. in the subject line and include:

A cover letter describing why you would be an excellent fit for this position
An up-to-date resume

Please note: only complete applications will be considered.

Instituto Familiar de la Raza, Inc. (IFR) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For more information about your rights as an applicant, please see the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission poster.

For the complete nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, please see the Civil Rights Department State of California's Discrimination, Harassment, and Affirmative Action in the Workplace policy.

² Please note that IFR reserves the right to change its benefits and contributions at any time at its sole discretion.