Behavioral Health Clinician - Integrated

About the role

We are seeking a full-time Behavioral Health Clinician to join our collaborative and supportive team at La Clinica. Our IBHCs work closely with primary care providers, nurses, medical assistants, and other team members to address the physical health, mental health, and substance use challenges of our patient population.

Responsibilities

• Collaborative care: Work closely with La Clinica medical providers to deliver comprehensive clinical services that target interventions aimed at improving patient quality of life and clinical outcomes.
• Work with Behavioral Health Support Specialists by providing clinical guidance and providing collaborative patient care.
• Address behavioral health concerns from health care providers by delivering focused, clear feedback in both written and verbal forms.
• Support patients with significant psychosocial barriers by identifying and evaluating health risk behaviors, providing diagnostic clarification for mental health and substance use conditions, developing care plans, and providing brief, targeted interventions to support optimal mental, behavioral, emotional, and physical health.
• Support in connecting to community supports when indicated.
• Stepped care participation: Collaborate with psychiatric providers for psychiatric medication management needs and refer patients to specialty mental health and substance use care as necessary.
• Risk intervention: Support the team in assessing and intervening with patients at risk of harming themselves or others, situations involving domestic violence by identifying safety plans and referring to appropriate services.
• Team involvement: Participate actively in patient care staffing with the clinical care team to ensure comprehensive patient care.
• Provide clinical consultation and psycho-educational programs on behavioral health-related topics to staff, students/fellows, consumers, and other agencies as needed.
• Continuous improvement: Participate in clinic and performance improvement meetings and in-service training opportunities, to stay updated and contribute to ongoing clinic advancements.
• Supervisory role: You may provide clinical supervision to unlicensed behavioral health clinicians, behavioral health support specialists, and master’s degree students, fostering growth and development within the team.

Requirements

• Education: Master's degree in social work, psychology, marital and family therapy, or clinical mental health counseling.
• Licensure: This position requires you to be a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) OR a Registered Clinical Social Work Associate (CSWA), a Professional Counselor Associate (PCA) or a Marriage & Family Therapy Associate (MFTA) with the State of Oregon (we provide clinical supervision).
• Preferred Skills: Experience with psychosocial assessment, short-term evidence-based modalities, and crisis intervention; experience working in the medical social work or community mental health field and knowledge of integrated behavioral health in the community healthcare system; experience working with health-related issues, substance abuse, and history of trauma; excellent interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills; effective verbal and written communication skills; strong analytical and critical thinking skills; efficient time management skills; strong customer service skills; organizational skills; attention to detail; ability to work with diverse populations; teamwork and collaboration skills; able to de-escalate difficult situations; stress tolerance; skilled at using electronic health records as applicable to area of work (EPIC).

Qualifications

• Experience with psychosocial assessment, short-term evidence-based modalities, and crisis intervention.
• Experience working in the medical social work or community mental health field and knowledge of integrated behavioral health in the community healthcare system.
• Experience working with health-related issues, substance abuse, and history of trauma.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Efficient time management skills.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Organizational skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Able to work with diverse populations.
• Teamwork and collaboration skills.
• Able to de-escalate difficult situations.
• Stress tolerance.
• Skilled at using electronic health records as applicable to area of work (EPIC).

Skills

• Psychosocial assessment.
• Short-term evidence-based modalities.
• Crisis intervention.
• Integrated behavioral health.
• Medical social work.
• Community mental health.
• Health-related issues.
• Social work.
• Psychology.
• Marital and family therapy.
• Clinical mental health counseling.
• Behavioral health.
• Substance abuse.
• History of trauma.
• Interpersonal communication.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Verbal and written communication.
• Analytical and critical thinking.
• Time management.
• Customer service.
• Organizational skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Diverse populations.
• Teamwork and collaboration.
• De-escalation.
• Stress tolerance.
• Electronic health records.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Voluntary accident, short term disability, long term disability, and critical illness insurance.
• 403(b) retirement Savings plan with available company match.
• Organization paid standard life insurance.
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings account (HSA).
• Wellness programs such as Zumba, Yoga, and more.
• Personal and professional development workshops.
• Loan assistance program with NHSC.