Behavioral Health Specialist II

Job Summary

About the role

International Community Health Services seeks a Behavioral Health Specialist II in Shoreline, WA to provide brief, integrated behavioral health services within a primary care setting.

Responsibilities

• Utilize patient health data and proactively engage patient panels to achieve population defined behavioral health outcome.
• Conduct evaluations to help patients establish mental health evidence or a combination of mental health and medical evidence of a disability.
• Screen, identify, and manage patients who present difficulties with mental illness, substance use, and other social determinants of health risk factors that impact patient’s behavioral health.
• Assess patients through obtaining psychosocial histories to identify and justify a behavioral health related diagnosis.
• Develop and implement brief treatment plans that use evidence-based treatment modalities that reflect the patient’s diagnosis, modify treatment and plans as clinically indicated.
• Support psychotropic medication management prescribed by primary care clinicians with a focus on treatment adherence, attention to side effects, and effectiveness of treatment.
• Facilitate patient engagement and follow-up in health care.
• Conduct scheduled consultation with consulting psychiatrists and communicate resulting treatment recommendations to patient’s physician or other team members.
• Track patient treatment, follow up, and clinical outcomes as required.
• Accept internal referrals and make external behavioral health referrals when appropriate and serve as a resource to the health care team.
• Consult, collaborate, and coordinate behavioral health services internally with the patient’s care team and externally with care providers and natural supports as clinically indicated.

Requirements

• Masters in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling or related field of study including Christian Counseling
• 24 months exp erience as Counselor, Therapist, or related position working with patients with mental health, substance abuse and/or disability issues.

Qualifications

• None specified

Skills

• None specified

Benefits

• Available at https://www.ichs.com/careers

Pay

• $74,984 to $109,784 per year

Schedule

• Not specified

Contact Information

Please send resumes to Kate McIntyre, International Community Health Services (ICHS), P.O. Box 3007, Seattle, WA 98114 or careers@ichs.com .