Behavioral Health Consultant

Primary Function

Responsible for working with the Integrated Healthcare Team of Primary Care Providers, Pharmacists, Dietitians, Nursing & and support staff to provide quality health care to patients and their families. Responsible for working with the Integrated Healthcare Team to recognize and address psychological symptoms and conditions using the biopsychosocial model. Provide behavioral health consultation to children, adolescents, adults, and families to improve psychosocial functioning.

Job Description

• Direct Service Duties:

  • Creates, develops, and nurtures culturally appropriate interactions and connections with each other, customer-owners, and the community
  • Provides professional expertise and consultation to the primary care provider
  • Propose changes to achieve more effective working relationships to improve performance and services provided, and connections with other departments
  • Works with Primary Care Providers to develop the “core” behavioral health skills needed on an integrated primary care team
  • Makes appropriate referrals to the Crisis Intervention Team and seeks resources to aid customer-owners
  • Aids, leads, or co-leads customer-owner case conferences and customer-owner support or counseling groups with the primary care provider
  • Works with members of the treatment team (internal and, where appropriate, external), including mentors, educational and vocational instructors, clinical staff, etc., to further the goals of the individual educational and/or treatment plans
  • Develops and maintains a trusting and partnering relationship with assigned customer-owners to assist in the success of the treatment plan
  • Works with the provider to monitor and manage “at-risk” and “chronic” customer-owners
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest quality of care for the customer-owner
  • Advises customer-owners and family members in methods that facilitate a capacity for self-care and a movement towards a healthcare partnership between the healthcare providers, the customer-owners, and their families
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest quality of care for the customer-owner
  • Advises customer-owners and family members in methods that facilitate a capacity for self-care and a movement towards a healthcare partnership between the healthcare providers, the customer-owners, and their families
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest quality of care for the customer-owner
  • Advises customer-owners and family members in methods that facilitate a capacity for self-care and a movement towards a healthcare partnership between the healthcare providers, the customer-owners, and their families
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest quality of care for the customer-owner
  • Advises customer-owners and family members in methods that facilitate a capacity for self-care and a movement towards a healthcare partnership between the healthcare providers, the customer-owners, and their families
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest quality of care for the customer-owner
  • Advises customer-owners and family members in methods that facilitate a capacity for self-care and a movement towards a healthcare partnership between the healthcare providers, the customer-owners, and their families
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest quality of care for the customer-owner
  • Advises customer-owners and family members in methods that facilitate a capacity for self-care and a movement towards a healthcare partnership between the healthcare providers, the customer-owners, and their families
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest quality of care for the customer-owner
  • Advises customer-owners and family members in methods that facilitate a capacity for self-care and a movement towards a healthcare partnership between the healthcare providers, the customer-owners, and their families
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest quality of care for the customer-owner
  • Advises customer-owners and family members in methods that facilitate a capacity for self-care and a movement towards a healthcare partnership between the healthcare providers, the customer-owners, and their families
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest quality of care for the customer-owner
  • Advises customer-owners and family members in methods that facilitate a capacity for self-care and a movement towards a healthcare partnership between the healthcare providers, the customer-owners, and their families
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest quality of care for the customer-owner
  • Advises customer-owners and family members in methods that facilitate a capacity for self-care and a movement towards a healthcare partnership between the healthcare providers, the customer-owners, and their families
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest quality of care for the customer-owner
  • Advises customer-owners and family members in methods that facilitate a capacity for self-care and a movement towards a healthcare partnership between the healthcare providers, the customer-owners, and their families
  • Works to improve provider and customer-owner working relationship
  • Performs assessment and brief treatment for a wide range of psychological disorders using brief therapy
  • Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous, respectful and culturally sensitive manner to determine a diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan
  • Affords assessments the treatment needs of the customer-owners, and designs and implements various treatments indicated to best meet customer-owner needs
  • Participates in presenting customer-owner reviews to a multi-disciplinary team and provides feedback regarding clinical issues
  • Strives to ensure that appropriate diagnostic evaluations and treatment plans are achieved to provide the highest