Behavioral Health Clinician - Embedded Psych Services, Hybrid

Dartmouth Health • Lebanon, NH

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About The Position

The Behavioral Health Clinician provides high-quality behavioral healthcare as a collaborative primary care team member focused on short-term episodes of care, skill-based counseling, and coordination/outreach. This position works with a majority adult patient population. We are offering a $7,500 sign-on/retention bonus for this position. *The bonus is available for external hires only, and certain conditions apply. This is a full-time, 40-hour/week benefitted position located at our Lebanon campus. Once oriented to the position, it will be a hybrid position, working three days a week in the office and two days a week remotely. We anticipate spending the first four to six months on-site while orienting to the position before moving to a hybrid schedule.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage & Family Counseling/Therapy, or Addiction Counseling from an accredited institution of higher education, including an internship meeting professional standards.
• Must be able to demonstrate that he or she has provided psychological services, on an inpatient, outpatient or consultative basis in the past 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Works with the Primary Care team to address the behavioral health needs of patients in primary care utilizing the Collaborative Care model of integrated care.
• Partners with PCP teams to systematically screen and assess for opiate misuse and other substance use disorders.
• Conducts triage visits and/or initial evaluations to help clarify behavioral health concerns and develop an individualized, appropriate care plan.
• Enrolls patients referred by the PCP into the collaborative care program, which includes both in person and telephone outreach visits for a short-term episode of care, up to 12 weeks duration.
• Utilizes evidence-based clinical procedures to deliver care in a standardized format and measure patient's symptoms and response to treatment through questionnaires and survey tools.
• Effectively maintains and manages a patient registry to track patients, monitor progress and report program focused metrics.
• Provides limited face-to-face, short-term counseling including; problem-solving therapy, brief CBT, motivational interviewing or brief supportive therapy.
• Proactively communicates with patients, primary care team members and the consulting psychiatrist to aid in effective, patient-centered, team-based care.
• Assists patients in need of higher levels of care, specialty mental health or substance use services, outside of primary care, to connect with appropriate treatment resources.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.
• Supports the department's educational and workforce development mission by providing supervision and learning opportunities for trainees in mental health fields.

Benefits

• $7,500 sign-on/retention bonus for external hires.
• Full-time, 40-hour/week benefitted position.
• Hybrid work schedule after orientation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Master's degree