Clinical Therapist / HealthySteps Specialist

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

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 the 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 6 months in a position to share about HealthySteps, and their role, and receive information to support referrals, warm handoffs, and ensure appropriate referral criteria are met.

• Participates (when appropriate) in community-wide early childhood and/or mental health meetings.

Team-Based Care

• Is an active member of the HS Implementation Team and attends regular team meetings

• Works with the front office administrative staff to ensure the scheduling of the HS Specialist’s time in coordination with provider visits (i.e., well-child visits)

• Engages in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives to ensure the HealthySteps model is delivered with fidelity

• Collaborates with HealthySteps implementation team to implement all eight Core Components including universal screenings, making positive parenting and early learning guidance information available, and adjusting workflows for optimal efficiency

• Maintains open communication with all members of the primary care team

• Works closely with pediatric primary providers around care coordination, goal setting, coaching, and education about key aspects of a child’s development

• Provides consultation and/or facilitates training to medical professionals and all practice staff re: early childhood development, early relational health/infant early childhood mental health, and trauma-informed practice

Caseload Tracking, Record Keeping, and Reporting

• Maintains extensive databases required to meet HealthySteps fidelity metrics including both internal and external referrals.

• Collaborates with the HealthySteps Implementation Team to complete required annual site reporting to the HealthySteps National Office at ZERO TO THREE, which may include analysis of both external database files and EHR data reports.

• Documents all patient clinical activity and care coordination in EHR.

• Tracks caseload to ensure capacity to deliver the HS services within the risk-stratified service delivery model. This includes ensuring exit criteria is met and that families and children are elevated to higher levels of care or referred to community providers if needed.

Professional Development Activities

• Participates in HealthySteps training (Virtual HealthySteps Institute)

• Participates in administrative and clinical/reflective supervision meetings

For this recruitment, some positions are eligible for a 10% DTR differential that is applied to hours worked. At any time, this differential can be removed.

Click here to review Clinical Therapist I job qualifications.
Salary: $29.50 - $42.60 Hourly

Click here to review Clinical Therapist II job qualifications.
Salary: $33.99 - $48.39 Hourly

Education: Possession of a Master's degree from an accredited college or university in counseling or social work.

AND

Certificate:

Clinical Therapist I: must have possession of a valid certificate of registration as an Associate Clinical Social Worker or Associate Marriage and Family Therapist issued by the California State Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Clinical Therapist II: must have possession of a valid certificate of registration as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Associate Marriage and Family Therapist issued by the California State Board of Behavioral Sciences.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Other Requirements

License/Certificate: Possession of a valid California Driver’s License may be required.

Bilingual Testing

The Human Resources Department will coordinate a Bilingual (Spanish) Non-Proctored Assessment.

Security Clearance

A successful Security Clearance conducted by the Sheriff’s Department may be required within the Department name.

County of Riverside Human Resources Contact:

For more information regarding this position, please contact the recruiter, Jammie Smith, via email at jasmith@rivco.org.