Unlicensed Behavioral Health Provider

Job Description:
This position is intended for Behavioral Health professions who have completed their master's degree and are working toward their licensure, which requires up to two years to complete.
The Behavioral Health Provider within the Addiction Medicine Clinic works collaboratively with providers and other members of the health care team to improve the mental health of patients with addiction and co-occurring disorders. The position provides individual, family, and group therapy services by utilizing a variety therapeutic approaches, including motivational interviewing. The Behavioral Health Provider facilitates therapy services by conducting assessment, providing recommendations for treatment, creating service plans, coordinating services, addressing barriers to care, and by promoting recovery.
In collaboration with the Medical Director, Nurse Practitioner and other clinical professionals, this position is responsible for Behavioral Health assessment and intervention, resource connection, addressing barriers to care and treatment, treatment adherence and monitoring among others. The essential job functions include:

• Providing brief Behavioral Health support to persons living with addiction
• Monitoring adherence to medical and Behavioral Health treatment
• Connecting patients with community resources for biopsychosocial, financial, and other needs
• Communicating / collaborating with medical, interdisciplinary team staff, patient / family, insurance companies, social agencies
• Providing timely documentation of all services within the clinic's electronic medical record
• Participating in patient care conferences as appropriate
• Assessing coping mechanisms and current functioning in following areas: life skills, social skills identity, interpersonal, family and group dynamics
• Planning and developing group and individual treatments as a member of a multidisciplinary team
• Implementing group, individual and family treatments ensuring a safe, comfortable therapeutic environment
• Ensuring the follow-through of treatment goals concerning individual group therapy
• Documenting patients' progress and response to treatment in a timely manner
• Providing brief intervention using motivational interviewing techniques to individuals with identified needs who are living with chronic illnesses.

Minimum Qualifications

• Working toward a professional license to practice in Colorado or ability to obtain, as a LAC, LMFT, LPC, or LCSW, within two years of hire
• Master's degree in a related field
• Prior relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Licensed Addiction Counselor
• Three years of relevant work experience
• (Candidates or incumbents could be obtaining these credentials while working on licensure, and are encouraged to apply without the license):
• Certificate/Training in Motivational interviewing
• Certificate/Training in Substance Use Disorders
• Certificate/Training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
• Certificate/Training in Trauma Informed
• Certificate/Training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Certificate/Training in Pharmacology I and II (directly from CAT Courses to obtain LAC)
• Certificate/Training in Principles of Addiction Treatment (directly from CAT course to obtain LAC)

Physical Requirements:
Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies. Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations. Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc. Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items. Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.). May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
Anticipated job posting close date:
12/12/2023
Location:
St Marys Medical Center
Work City:
Grand Junction
Work State:
Colorado
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$23.81 - $40.93
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