Behavioral Health Care Manager NJ - In Person

Fort Health • NJ

300d • $35,000 - $40,000

About The Position

Fort Health is a mental health company that is on a mission to 'Opening more paths to better care for more families'. We're all about making a real difference in the lives of children and adolescents. With a whopping 50% of kids in the US missing out on mental health care, we're determined to change that statistic. Our vision is to create a world where every child has access to the support they need to thrive mentally and emotionally. As part of our collaborative care team, you will be an integral member of an integrated multidisciplinary team responsible for delivering high-quality, evidenced-based mental health care for children, adolescents, and their families. You will be responsible for supporting and coordinating care for a caseload of patients with the primary care provider, consulting psychiatrist, and potentially other mental health providers and educational professionals.

Requirements

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), or any other independent licensures.
• Licensed independently to practice.
• Minimum 1-year of direct clinical experience working with children, adolescents and their families (e.g., ages 4-24 years old).
• Experience and training in delivering brief psychosocial evidence-based treatments (e.g., CBT, problem solving treatment, behavioral activation, motivational interviewing).
• Experience with care coordination.
• Strong experience with screening for common mental health disorders and symptom assessment with children and adolescents.
• Working knowledge of differential diagnosis of common mental health disorders.
• Strong skills in engaging parents and children, developing appropriate treatment planning, and ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in a team setting.
• Experience using measurement-based care tools (e.g., PHQ-9, GAD-7, SCARED, etc.).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience providing telehealth.
• Must have reliable, high-speed internet access with minimum speeds of 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience working in a team-based healthcare setting.
• Desire to work with and learn from some of the top child mental health experts in the field.

Responsibilities

• Screen and assess patients for common mental health disorders, facilitate patient engagement and follow-up care.
• Provide patient education about common mental health disorders and the available treatment options.
• Systematically track treatment response and monitor patients for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.
• Support psychotropic medication management as prescribed by medical providers, focusing on treatment adherence monitoring, side effects, and effectiveness of treatment.
• Provide brief behavioral interventions using evidence-based techniques (e.g., problem-solving treatment, motivational interviewing, behavioral activation).
• Identify appropriate resources and coordinate referral process to community resources when appropriate.
• Participate in regularly scheduled caseload consultation with the psychiatric consultant and communicate resulting treatment recommendations to the patient’s medical provider.
• Collaborate with the collaborative care team to provide personalized treatment plans for every child and their family.
• Constantly communicate and work with the family to drive the treatment plan forward.
• Track patient follow up and clinical outcomes using a registry and document patient progress and treatment recommendations in the electronic health record.
• 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.
• Participate in individual supervision with a psychologist to ensure you have the support you need to be successful.
• Have access to consultation and materials from our non-profit partner to bring to bear the most cutting edge treatment protocols and methods for our clients.
• Expand and strengthen your clinical skills through the AIMS center, and take advantage of additional ongoing training and educational opportunities, conferences, and more.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Generous paid time off including paid company holidays, mental health days.
• 1 Paid week of company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year's Day.
• Full malpractice coverage while you are providing care at Fort Health.
• Yearly professional development stipend.
• Ability to be part of a startup and help build a new treatment model.
• Collaborative and supportive mission-oriented work environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Master's degree