Behavioral Health Provider LCSW(A), LCMHC(A), or LMFT(A).

About the role

We are seeking a Behavioral Health Provider (LCSW or LCMHC) to join our family. This position works as part of a multidisciplinary primary care treatment team to provide holistic, whole-person healthcare for all Kintegra Health Pediatric patients.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates the provision of behavioral health and substance abuse screening, brief intervention, education, and referral services for patients presenting in Kintegra Health primary care clinics.
• Provides ongoing consultation and treatment planning support for primary care medical staff in their work with pediatric patients with psychosocial, behavioral health, chronic disease, behavior change, and/or substance use concerns.
• Works cooperatively as an integral part of the primary healthcare team with the goal of improving patient care and increasing team efficiency.
• Formulates and facilitates the implementation of behavioral health, substance abuse, and chronic disease management plans of care through use of appropriate treatment modalities, interventions, and available community resources.
• Assists primary care providers with screening, identification, diagnosis, management, and treatment of behavioral health, substance use, issues, chronic disease management.
• Engages in ongoing assessment and quality improvement strategies to assist in the implementation ongoing primary care/behavioral health integration strategies.
• Provides consultative services to health care team members within the scope of care definitions and provides training to other health care professionals as needed.
• Completes, in a timely manner, all required documentation related to patient treatment, payment for services rendered, and organizational operations.
• Maintains working knowledge of and liaison with community agencies and resources.

Qualifications

• Minimum two years’ experience in a public health setting.
• Master’s Degree.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker Certification (LCSW) or Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in good standing with the Social Work Certification and Licensure Board of North Carolina (or equivalent).

Skills

• Adherence to professional Code of Ethics.
• Evidence-based assessment, intervention, consultation, and referral services.
• Collaboration and flexibility with the primary care team.
• Knowledge of and liaison with community agencies and resources.

Benefits

Commensurate with experience.

Pay

$2,500.00 Sign-on Bonus for Fully Licensed Providers

Schedule

N/A

Kintegra Health Core Requirements

• Patient First – An approach to care that holds primary, the well-being and desires of the patient.
• Build not Blame – Focusing first on finding fault with the process rather than the person.
• Culturally Sensitive – Always working toward increasing one’s ability to understand, communicate with, effectively interact and care for people across cultures, while having an acute awareness of one’s own culture.