Behavioral Health Consultant I/II

Essential Functions

• Works in close collaboration with physicians and other health care personnel in patient evaluation and treatment to further their understanding of significant social and emotional factors underlying a patient's health problem.
• Provides screening and assessment.
• Provides independent substance use disorders and mental health screenings, assessments, and therapy by observation, interpretation, and intervention of the full range of complex emotional, behavioral, and mental health disorders outlined by the DSM-5.
• Provides professional social work services including diagnostic treatment and assessment for individuals, families, and groups; develops interventions based on the above needs assessment and exercises professional judgment in consultation with the supervisory behavioral health provider in providing problem-focused, culturally appropriate care.
• Provides behavioral health services in homes, schools, clinics, job sites, and other community locations to eligible individuals as directed.
• Provides case management for ongoing follow-up of cases and coordinates treatment referrals once cases are stabilized within the intervention team.
• Organizes, coordinates, develops and leads therapeutic groups for individuals and families of all ages.
• Provides crisis intervention services to clients with a wide variety of acute mental health problems.
• Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish, organizational goals.
• Provides professional written documentation for the medical records (Electronic Health Records); provides statistical and other reports as requested.
• Serves as a liaison to other health care professionals/agencies and social welfare agencies, including tribal, state, federal and private entities.
• Establishes and maintains a multi-disciplinary integrated treatment plan and case management. Coordinate with Purchased Referred Care in developing resources for difficult and/or high-cost cases.

Education/Experience

• Level I: Master’s degree. Licensed as an LPC, CSW, or LMFT.
• Level II: Master’s degree and Licensed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (CSW or CSW-PIP), Licensed Practical Counselor (LPC or LPC-MH), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in any US State or Territory.