Mental Health Internship - Associate MFT or MSW

Position Description
This dynamic internship offers an unparalleled opportunity to gain hands-on clinical experience in the rapidly growing field of infant and family mental health. Working alongside a multidisciplinary team of experts, you will play a vital role in supporting the pivotal stages of child development and fostering strong early attachments between children and their caregivers through a cutting-edge, relationship-based approach. You can expect a minimum of ten (10) client hours per week, with a maximum of thirty (30) client hours per week.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide mental health services to children, teens, and their families in the clinic.
• Provide relationship based early intervention services to infants/children and their families in the home, community, and clinic.
• Establish and maintain strong collaborative and professional relationships with clients and staff.
• Complete case management for assigned cases. This includes scheduling and managing client hours, gathering resources for clients, requesting additional services, supporting the referral process, and communicating with other service providers.
• Complete weekly progress notes and periodic progress reports.
• Participate in weekly supervision, minimum two hours a week of group supervision and one hour a week of individual/triadic supervision.
• Attend staff meetings, in-services, and training.
• Deliver Developmental Screeners and Assessments for infants and young children.
• Participate in IFSP/IPP/IEP meetings for assigned cases, acting as coordinator of information between family and other members of the team.
• Observe health and safety precautions in all activities.
• Ensure treatment areas are clean, safe, and organized before and after each session.

CDI offers excellent benefits:

• Certificate in Infant Family Mental Health is awarded after 1 year of training at CDI(see flyer).

• Associate MFT/MSW, post Masters for client contact hours plus case management time at 1 hour per 4 hours of clients. (e.g., 20 client hours/wk. + 5 hrs. case management/wk.).
• Strong mentorship with ongoing training and supervision.
• Free additional training and CEs available.
• Diverse caseload including various settings (clinic, home, and community)
• Flexible work schedule.
• 100% Employer sponsored medical & dental insurance, if eligible.
• Generous paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays, if eligible.
• Mileage reimbursements, if eligible.