Behavioral Health Consultant (LPC, LMFT, LCSW, PsyD, PhD)

About the role

Join us as we strive to provide comprehensive care for our patients. As a Behavioral Health Consultant, you’ll be an integral part of our multi-disciplinary team, working closely with primary care providers to address the behavioral, physical, and psychosocial needs of our patient population.

Responsibilities

• Provide integrated behavioral healthcare in a person-centered primary care home.
• Act as an extension of the physician providing consultation on mental health and addiction, brief therapy intervention, referral and coordination of care, and psycho-education.
• Works with other members of primary care team to assess, treat, and manage patients with chronic behavioral, physical, and social conditions efficiently and effectively within an integrated behavioral health care model.
• Directs individual and crisis intervention within behavioral health care model.
• Works with primary care team to coordinate specialty mental health care when needed.
• Delivers patient care within HRSA services scope and approved locations, encompassing patient homes, community-based sites, and providing home-based care when necessary and in adherence to defined services and safety protocols.
• Local travel required.

Standards Of Practice

• Uses current evidence-based guidelines in creating diagnostic and treatment plans.
• Provides care which reflects health care cost consciousness and addresses social determinants of health.
• Leverages expertise of all members of multi-disciplinary team.
• Leverages tools (e.g. EHR, online resources, written materials, MY Chart messages, etc.) to effectively communicate information with patients regarding diagnoses, treatment options, disease prevention, safe health behaviors, self-care skills, and health promotion.

Skills And Knowledge

• Knowledge of methods around behavioral medicine and evidence-based treatments for medical, mental health and substance use conditions.
• Plans and provides psychological assessment and diagnosis in a primary care setting with brief psychotherapeutic interventions as needed.
• Advises and consults primary care providers and team members.
• Ability to triage and refer for specialty mental health services.
• Knowledge of psycho-pharmacology and the problems and dynamics in treating medically underserved populations.
• Knowledge of general medical practice models and processes such as office procedures, medical records, health insurance, etc.
• Skilled in support group organization, facilitating, as well as educating.
• Ability to work as successful primary health care team member.
• Ability to be comfortable in role as consultant and resident BH specialist.
• Execute evidence-based brief interventions.
• Ability to design and implement clinical protocols for treatment of selected behavioral conditions.
• Ability to make quick and accurate assessments of behavioral health conditions.
• Interest in gathering, tracking and presenting outcome data.
• Expertise in trauma-informed, culturally sensitive substance abuse and mental health treatment.
• Knowledgeable of local and state resources.
• Able to work with patients from infancy to geriatrics.
• Comfort with electronic medical records and charting.
• Flexible and able to assess and triage on the spot demands of medical staff.
• Ability to train and teach effective behavioral health interventions and integrated health model to medical practitioners.