Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant

Are you a provider who has experience working with young children? Work as an Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant supporting the capacity of teachers, caregivers, and families to enhance the social-emotional health of children in childcare, school, and home settings. Engage in creative and collaborative prevention work within a strengths-based and relationship-focused framework. Extensive training and supervision are provided to learn this evidence-informed model. Work is almost exclusively conducted during daytime hours when centers and schools are open. Consultants will possess skills that include a knowledge of early childhood development, coupled with an understanding of family dynamics and relationship building on an individual/family, provider, and community level.

As an IECMH Consultant, you'll work directly with early educators, families, and community providers to:

Promote young children's social-emotional development

Reduce challenging behaviors before they escalate

Strengthen adult resilience and capacity

Foster trauma-informed, inclusive early learning environments

This is a licensed clinical role where your skills create meaningful change - with less paperwork and more relational impact.

Why Join Us?

Proven Model, Enhanced for Maine ECE Consultation for ME continues the strong foundation of IECMHC and makes it even better tailored to Maine's communities and workforce.

Strong Team, Strong Support You'll be part of a team that values reflective supervision, statewide training, and peer collaboration.

Less Paperwork, More Impact Focus on relationships and consultation instead of traditional clinical documentation and paperwork.

Local Roots, Statewide Reach You'll work within your county while contributing to Maine's statewide consultant network.

Minimum Qualifications

LCSW, LCPC, LMFT. LMSW-cc and/or LCPC-c can be considered, but due to this position being a consult role, supervised clinical hours to count toward independent licensure are not available. Candidates with a Master's Degree in Education or Early Childhood Education who hold a valid license as a teacher in the State of Maine and have relevant work experience/training, but do not have clinical licensure, may also be considered.

Salary for conditionally licensed ECCs and Master's Level Certified Teachers ranges from $66,000 to $70,200, based on experience.

Salary for independently licensed ECCs ranges from $68,250.00 to $72,450.00, based on experience.

Community Care offers community-based support and mental health services to individuals and families throughout Maine. Established in 1996, Care has grown to meet a wide range of social and clinical needs through its expanding continuum of programs and services, including an outpatient clinic, case management, Early Childhood Consultation, visitation services, and treatment foster care. We are committed to excellence in service delivery, and we value strong cooperative efforts between community providers. Accredited nationally by the Council on Accreditation, we are recognized as a top-quality resource for promoting the health, well-being, and independence of individuals and families. We value our membership in Maine communities and work with our clients in a friendly atmosphere staffed by sensitive and highly skilled professionals.

Must be able to pass background checks including DMV, CPS, APS, and Criminal checks.