Posting Date:
08/21/2024
Closing Date:
09/23/2024
Job Title:
Mental Health Liaison- Kearns
Job Position:
Health
Organization:
Utah Community Action
Email Address:
not provided
Website:
not provided
City/Area:
Kearns
State:
UT
Zip Code:
84118
Duties:
- Develop collaborative relationships with mental health professionals and agencies.
- Develop and train staff and families on a variety of mental health and parenting topics.
- Collaborate with Head Start and Early Head Start staff to develop and implement Mental Health interventions in the classroom to support children and families.
- Collaborate with teaching teams and families to ensure that appropriate referrals to mental health agencies are provided, as needed.
- Regularly conduct classroom visits to model for and support the classroom teams in implementing interventions.
- Work collaboratively and communicate openly with all departments to ensure that all program operations support the delivery of high-quality services to families and children in Head Start/ Early Head Start.
- Partner with parents to gather information regarding their child's mental and social emotional health and provide support and referrals as needed.
- Collaborate with teaching teams to follow up and monitor social emotional screeners.
- Responsible for accurate monitoring in Child Plus for their caseloads, including Menal Health requests and referrals to outside agencies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Social Services, or Early Childhood Education, Family Services, Human Family Development or Consumer Studies, or in a related field with an emphasis in Early Childhood essential topics, or related fields.
- Previous Head Start experience.
- One year experience working with young children ages birth to five yrs.
Instructions:
For more information, or to apply now, you must go to the website below. Please DO NOT email your resume to us as we only accept applications through our website.
https://utahca.applicantpro.com/jobs/3471156-467103.html