POSITION SUMMARY:
The Behavioral Health Therapist will provide effective culturally competent behavioral health assessments and therapy to individuals, families, and groups in a community-based, in-person, Primary Care setting, working in concert with an integrated primary care team and promoting integrated behavioral health.
As a member of the health center's integrated care team the Behavioral Health Therapist will fulfill the following KEY FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES towards the provision of patient-centered, coordinated patient care:
- Maintain confidentiality of records relating to patients' treatment.
- Provide mental health and substance abuse assessments
- Provide Individual, Couples, and family short-term mental health treatment for adults, children, and teens using evidence-based interventions such as CBT, MI, trauma-informed care, and/or Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Conduct substance abuse screenings and brief counseling or referral for addictions treatment.
- Develop and implement treatment plans based on patients' expressed goals. Complete and maintain client-related records in the EMR (ECW), daily.
- Follow regulations for documentation and billing.
- Collaborate and/or consult with other team members to perform clinical assessments or develop treatment plans.
- Coordinate clinical approaches with the medical team.
- Refer patients or family members to community resources or to specialists as necessary.
- Manage patient crises as needed. Modify treatment activities and documentation to comply with changes in patients' status for accreditation or regulatory requirements.
- Counsel family members to assist them in understanding, or supporting patients, as appropriate.
- Monitor patients' use of medications and encourage their collaboration with prescribers.
- Learn about new developments in counseling and health by reading professional literature, attending courses and seminars, or establishing and maintaining contact with other social service agencies.
- Coordinate or direct employee workshops, courses, or training about mental health and substance abuse screening and treatment.
- Provide leadership in integrated care team collaboration.
- Successfully meet productivity targets including group therapy or clinical supervision requirements
- Develop cultural competence to work with a diverse population including refugees and asylees.
- Provides office-based appointments.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Must be a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW or LCSW-C), Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC), or Licensed Psychologist
- Minimum 2 years providing therapy to children, teens, and adults with mental health needs.
- Excellent team-based communication skills with the primary care team, supervisors, and other CCI staff.
- Ability to define problems, collect and interpret data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and process work to completion.
- Bi-lingual (Spanish, Amharic, Pashto) in reading, writing, and speaking, preferred
- Experience in the use of interpreter services.
- Ability to develop therapeutic rapport and engage patients in treatment using clinical skills including motivational interviewing in a culturally-based manner.
- Ability to provide crisis intervention services to patients, and ability to be flexible, use new ideas and operate in a fast-paced health environment
- Prior experience collaborating with physicians and other health care providers, social service agencies, and/or education systems desired
- Enthusiasm for innovation, data-driven decisions, and clinical and financial outcomes.
- Other duties as assigned.