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Part-time Child Development Specialist

Location: Early Childhood Center, Bronx, NY

Position: Part-time Child Development Specialist
Location: Bronx, NY

Description: The Early Childhood Center at CERC is seeking a Child Development Specialist
to work 4 days per week. This individual will serve as a primary therapist for toddlers and preschool
age children and their parents or alternate caregivers, in both dyadic and small group formats, for
concerns about children's development, social-emotional status, and/or behavior.

Responsibilities include:

• Assess development, behavior and emotional status of young children referred for
  therapeutic services. Conduct intake interviews with new families and assess family strengths and needs.
• Develop intervention goals and treatment plan for child and family based on initial assessments.
• Provide therapeutic intervention for individual children and their families in weekly sessions.
• Maintain signed and dated records of all contacts with and on behalf of children and families,
  including weekly therapy notes and quarterly progress reports in accordance with New York State
  regulations and professional standards. Prepare and maintain Treatment Plans for all therapeutic cases
  with physician signed authorizations, as prescribed by Article 16 of the N.Y State's Mental Hygiene Laws.
• Lead parent groups and/or children's therapy groups.
• Provide consultation to and collaborate with other practitioners serving the child and/or family
  including child's pediatrician, preschool teacher or childcare staff, child welfare personnel, or
  staff of other medical, developmental and/or social service agencies as needed.
• Participate in multidisciplinary diagnostic team conferences of other CERC units. Present case
  discussions to staff for purposes of reviewing child's progress and revising goals as needed.
• Provide outreach training and technical assistance in early childhood development and
  developmental disabilities to community based early childhood agencies
• Participate in seminars for graduate student trainees
• Develop training goals for graduate students doing field placements at the Early Childhood Center
  if applicable
• Assign duties and clinical cases to graduate students and provide weekly individual supervision
  for graduate students, as part of a formal "Plan of Supervision", if applicable, and cosine all
  clinical notes prepared by graduate students under your supervision.
• Perform other related duties as needed.

Requirements:

• MA plus additional training, (i.e. certificate in child/family psychotherapy or credits towards PhD),
  or MA + 4 years related experience or equivalent skills and experience required.
• Experience working with developmentally delayed and/or behaviorally difficult toddlers and preschool
  aged children and their caregivers is strongly preferred.
• The ideal candidate will have possess exceptional clinical skills with young children and parents,
  often with multiple risk factors and adverse life experiences and have experience with evidence and
  relationship-based intervention approaches for young children.
• Fluency in Spanish highly preferred.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written, are essential to this position.

To Apply:

To apply to this opportunity, please visit our career website: www.yu.edu/careers or go directly to the online posting by following this link