Bilingual Mental Health Clinician- Infant Mental Health - License Preferred

WellPower provides you with the support you need to help you develop a career in helping others succeed. We innovate, adapt, and leverage the diverse perspectives of the people on our team and the people we serve in everything we do.

WellPower envisions a community where every person’s mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support. 

Our Guiding Principles:

• Person Centered. We honor people’s identities, lived experience and journeys and treat every person with the dignity we all deserve.  
• Exceptional Care. We offer compassionate, innovative services that meet people where they are, from immediate support to long-term recovery.
• Integrity. We operate from a deep foundation of ethical, accountable practices in all we do.
• Organizational Resilience. We meet the moment and adapt to changing contexts with collaborative creativity, agile business processes, and financial stewardship.

Position Summary:

Licensed Clinicians provide direct mental health clinical assessments and treatment to individuals with mental illness. Work with others in a clinical team environment to help individuals move toward recovery.

Team Specific Information:

This position is a member of the Right Start for Infant Mental Health team, WellPower’s team serving families with children aged birth to five years and pregnant individuals. Our team of clinicians work exclusively with infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families to offer comprehensive, trauma-informed, culturally proficient, relationship-based interventions including: Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Parent Child Interaction Therapy, Circle of Security-Parenting, Trauma-Focused CBT and other clinical interventions as necessary. We also provide treatment to pregnant individuals and new caregivers experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders that threaten to affect infant development. The team serves families at the Dahlia Campus for Health and Well Being as well as in community locations. This position is community based, and services would be provided in family home or community locations as well as at the Dahlia Campus

The young children and families we serve present with a broad range of infant mental health concerns, but frequently have experienced trauma, abuse/neglect, removal from or loss of a primary caregiver, and as a result are exhibiting post-traumatic stress symptoms, behavioral challenges, depression, anxiety and/or distressed/disordered parent-child relationships. The primacy of parent-infant relationship is central to our work and thus the services offered are dyadic in nature. This position is also responsible for maintaining compliance to documentation standards for all work performed. Bilingual Spanish required.

Location: 3401 Eudora St, Denver, CO, 80207

Schedule: Monday - Friday with flexibility for some remote work via telehealth based on clinical need.

Pay Range: 

Mental Health Therapist II (Master's Level) - $31.25/hr

LCSW/LPC/LMFT  -  $34.78/hr - $35.28/hr

Licensed Psychologist - $49.99

Spanish Bilingual/ $2.50 hr. differential.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide diagnostic mental health assessments of children ages 5 and under including assessing social-emotional functioning and parent-child relationship functioning.
• Provide infant-parent, child-parent and family therapy services to children ages 0 to 5 and their caregivers. Typical treatment modalities include Child Parent Psychotherapy, Parent Child Interaction Therapy, Circle of Security-Parenting, and Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This includes providing clinical services to pregnant and/or post partum women experiencing perinatal mood/ anxiety concerns that can impact the mental health of their infant.
• Support caregivers regarding typical emotional development and provide developmental guidance regarding challenging behaviors.
• Provide psycho-education and support groups for families/caregivers.
• Coordinate services with community partners and providers to support positive behavioral health, and social/emotional development in very young children.
• Provide case management services, including referral assistance, advocacy and support to families in accessing community resources.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation consistent with agency standards.
• Complete outcome measure assessments and other documentation to maintain compliance with Right Start for Colorado grant expectations.
• Participate in team meetings, in-services and supervisory sessions as required.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

Requirements & Qualifications:

• Education: Master’s Degree (or higher) in Psychology, Social Work, or other human service field. License preferred (LCSW, LPC, LMFT, Psychologist).
• Experience: At least three years’ experience working with children ages 5 and younger and their caregivers in a mental health setting.

Typical Physical and Mental Demands

Standing, walking, stooping, bending, lifting up to 50 lbs, repetitive hand/finger motions, manual dexterity. Requires fine motor skills required for precise clinical procedures. Requires visual and auditory acuity to observe patient behavior and respond to alarms and calls. Requires a capacity to handle emotionally charged situations and maintain professional boundaries. Requires critical thinking and problem-solving skills for diagnosis and treatment planning, and to prioritize multiple tasks and adapt to changing patient needs.

Working Conditions

Requires regular use of computers and medical equipment. May involve occasional evening or weekend hours depending on patient needs or clinic schedule. Work environment can be fast-paced and emotionally demanding, requiring adaptability and resilience. Noise level is generally moderate but may vary during peak patient flow. Occasional travel between clinical sites

Learn more about WellPower:

WellPower is committed to fair and equitable hiring with salaries based on relevant factors, such as work experience, education, and certification/licensure (rather than wage history). Toward the principle of equal pay for equal work, we post and hire within defined hiring salary ranges. We ask all applicants to carefully review the hiring salary range for each posted job opportunity, as we will not hire outside the predetermined range. 

WellPower is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. 

For a complete overview of our robust benefits, visit: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice 

Tuberculosis (TB) screening, testing  -  TB  screening and testing, is required and must be completed prior to hire ( i.e., preplacement), and maintained during employment