Behavioral Health Collaborative Care Clinician

Summary

The Behavioral Health Collaborative Care Clinician differs from the Behavioral Health Clinician by providing more short-term counseling and "triage" intervention therapy in the primary care environment. This differs from the traditional, long-term, in-depth approach by the Behavioral Health Clinicians.

Essential Functions:

• Works closely with the OCHS staff, including medical and psychiatric professionals, within the primary care setting and in an integrated treatment team model.

• Works to identify Behavioral Health issues in the medical setting rather than solely in the Behavioral Health services environment. Continues to coordinate needed Behavioral Health services with health services professionals. Provides brief, but immediate and quality, targeted intervention counseling sessions designed to address critical needs and transition to longer-term care.
• Identifies and prioritizes "At-Risk" patients and provides immediate intervention and follow-up referrals.
• Practices evidence-based behavioral assessments and interventions relevant to behavioral and substance abuse conditions.
• Provides on-demand support for urgent situations requiring immediate or very short-term responses.
• Works and collaborates with assigned team to implement joint care plans, as applicable, and balance a mix of short term, maintenance, group, individual and extended therapeutic modalities to ensure ongoing access and best possible outcomes

• Insures that OCHC patients are screened using the appropriate screening tool (CANS, PHQ-2,9) and is properly scored and that patient care is directed accordingly.
• Collaborates daily with healthcare team and other OCHS staff to assure that OCHS clients with Behavioral Health issues are treated in a coordinated and integrated fashion, moving towards the overall goal offull integration between primary care and Behavioral Health at the OCHS.
• Maintains case records in accordance with OCHS policies and procedures.
• Interacts with referral sources and other internal and external sources as necessary to insure the coordination and access to services for patients with Behavioral Health needs.
• Participates in staff supervision, in-service trainings and other OCHS meetings as directed by the Director of Behavioral Health.

Core Competencies:

• Interaction and Collaboration

• Strong group dynamic skills
• Ability to influence others
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strengthening collaborative relationships

• Results and Detail-Oriented

• Thoroughness
• Accuracy
• Analytical (ability to analyze data)
• Attention to detail

• Communication

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Persuasive communication

• Self-Management/Personal Skills

• Facilitator
• Detail-oriented
• Multi-tasking
• Honesty
• Integrity

Required Qualifications, Education, and Experience

• Masters Degree in in Clinical Social Work or related fields.
• Strong clinical, organizational and case management skill, computer literate including database and internet-savvy.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment within a team.

Preferred Qualifications, Education, and Experience

• Three to five years experience in Behavioral Health services
• Two years experience providing Behavioral Health services in Community Health Center
• Bi- lingual and bi-cultural capabilities
• Experience in Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Physical and Mental Job Requirements

• Use of and/or subject to:

• Vehicle
• Light equipment
• Computers/monitors

• Confined spaces

• Physical requirements:

• Occasional lifting/carrying up to 25 lbs.
• Occasional motor control
• Frequent bending

• Occasional squatting
• Occasional kneeling
• Occasional reaching
• Frequent standing
• Frequent sitting

• Frequent walking
• Frequent fine motor control
• Frequent repetitive motion
• Occasional finger dexterity
• Occasional grasping/holding

• Frequent handwriting and typing
• Frequent visual perception
• Frequent visual inspection
• Frequent hand/eye coordination
• Frequent color distinction

• Frequent hearing
• Frequent speaking

• Mental requirements:

• Understand and apply routine verbal and/or written instructions
• Understand and apply non-routine verbal and/or written instructions

• Understand complex problems and collaborate to explore alternative solutions
• Organize actions to complete sequential and/or routine tasks
• Organize and prioritize individual work schedule to manage multiple patients, tasks, and/or projects
• Organize and prioritize the work schedules of others to manage multiple patients, tasks and/or projects
• Make decisions that have an impact on the individuals work

• Make decisions that have an impact on the immediate work units operations and/or services
• Make decisions that have a significant impact on a departments credibility, operations, and/or services
• Make decisions that have an impact on the health and wellbeing of patients
• Communicate and exchange routine/basic information
• Communicate and explain a variety of information

• Communicate in-depth information for the purpose of interpreting, and/or negotiating
• Communicate complex medical information to patients and patient families
• Memorization/concentration
• Learning/knowledge retention
• Preparing/analyzing numerical figures

• Analyzing/examining/testing data
• Emotional/behavioral self-regulation
• Interacting with others

Work Environment

• The functions of this role are conducted in an office environment.

Hours of Work

• This position is full-time, exempt
• Typically, full-time salaried employees work 40 hours during a Monday through Friday workweek. As this is a salaried position the full-time individual is expected to work as required to complete the duties of the position. This may mean hours beyond 40 per week are required.

AAP/EEO Statement

Outer Cape Health Services is committed to a firm policy in favor of equal employment opportunity and will abide by all applicable state and federal regulations by not discriminating against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability or veteran status. Our commitment to equal employment opportunities shall include employment, upgrading, promotion, demotion, transfer, leaves or other absences from work, layoff, compensation and benefits, selection for training or other education, professional opportunities and conflict resolution.

It is also the policy of OCHS to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of their status as woman, minority or individuals with disabilities or protected veterans, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements.

Please inform us of any necessary accommodation required during the application process and/or at any time during employment.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.