Certified Life Coach

Flourish Mental Health is a clinic that providers therapy, medication management, and TMS. We are wanting to add care manager services within our own clinic and eventually offer the services to primary care offices as well. We need a BHCM that has adequate experience to help with training and setting up protocols for new BHCMs.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Support the mental and physical health care of patients on an assigned patient caseload. Closely coordinate care with the patient’s medical provider and, when appropriate, other mental health providers.

2. Screen and assess patients for common mental health and substance abuse disorders. Facilitate patient engagement and follow-up care.

3. Provide patient education about common mental health and substance abuse disorders and the available treatment options.

4. Systematically track treatment response and monitor patients for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.

5. Support psychotropic medication management as prescribed by medical providers, focusing on treatment adherence monitoring, side effects, and effectiveness of treatment.

6. Provide brief behavioral interventions using evidence-based techniques such as behavioral activation, problem-solving treatment, motivational interviewing, or other treatments as appropriate.

7. Provide or facilitate in-clinic or outside referrals to evidence-based psychosocial treatments (e.g. problem-solving treatment or behavioral activation) as clinically indicated.

8. Participate in regularly scheduled (usually weekly) caseload consultation with the psychiatric consultant and communicate resulting treatment recommendations to the patient’s medical provider. Case reviews may be conducted by telephone, video, or in person.

9. Track patient follow up and clinical outcomes using a registry. Document in-person and telephone encounters in the registry and use the system to identify and re-engage patients.

10. Document patient progress and treatment recommendations in EHR and other required systems so as to be shared with medical providers, psychiatric consultant, and other treating providers.

11. Facilitate treatment plan changes for patients who are not improving as expected in consultation with the medical provider and the psychiatric consultant and who may need more intensive or more specialized mental health care.

12. Develop and complete relapse prevention self-management plan with patients who have achieved their treatment goals and are soon to be discharged from the caseload.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $50,000.00 - $55,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Houston, TX 77024: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Wellness coaching: 5 years (Required)
• mental health: 2 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Certified Health Coach (Required)

Work Location: In person