Senior Social Worker (Mental Health Consultant)

**Summary** ----------- The Child Care Health Program (enter CCHP Website) provides health consultation, training, and education to child care and early learning educators to elevate their skills in guiding, nurturing, and supporting the health, safety, social and emotional development, nutrition, and learning of all children in their care. The CCHP is an interdisciplinary team of nurse, mental health, nutrition, and educator consultants who collaborate to offer in\-person and virtual services and trainings to those educators. The successful candidate for this position will have excellent communication, relationship, and trust\-building skills; knowledge of early childhood development and attachment; and the ability to work with diverse educators and families. Consultation focuses on the behavioral, developmental, and socioemotional needs of children from infancy through school\-age. In addition to consulting with early learning educators about the children in their care, the MHC may also consult with parents/family members to provide information about managing behavior and mental health and offer referrals for behavioral or developmental services as needed. In partnership with other mental health staff on the Child Care team, the MHC will be responsible for leading the mental health work of the unit, consulting with partners at the City of Seattle and the rest of the Child Care Health Team. Within the interdisciplinary team of Public Health Nurses, Mental Health Consultants, Educator Consultants, and Nutritionist, this Mental Health Consultant (MHC) will provide on\-site consultation services to child care and early learning programs. Following the model of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC), the CCHP MHCs strive to build the capacity of educators, families, programs, and systems to prevent, identify, and reduce the impact of behavioral problems among children. ***Note: This recruitment will be used to create