Behavioral Health Pedi Lead - LMHC, LCSW, LICSW, PhD, PsyD

BROCKTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC•Brockton, MA

1d•$75,000 - $103,824•Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Pedi/OB Behavioral Health Clinician is a core member of a collaborative care team that includes patients and, when appropriate, their families, primary care providers, nursing staff, and community health workers. The clinician provides urgent consultation and assessment, biopsychosocial evaluations, support and linkage services, advocacy, education, brief interventions, counseling, and information to support adequate health care, improve access to services, promote physical and psychological well-being, and facilitate patient self-care. Patients are referred by BNHC medical providers because of high-risk medical diagnoses, frequent emergency-room use, or behavioral health, social, or environmental concerns that affect their overall health. The position provides culturally sensitive behavioral health services to pediatric and OB/GYN patients, including assessment, crisis intervention, treatment planning, brief interventions, care coordination, and connections to internal and community resources. It also contributes to clinical and administrative treatment teams, program support, documentation, and outcome measurement. The clinician may supervise other Behavioral Health staff when appropriate.

Requirements

Must be licensed or currently seeking licensure in Social Work (LCSW or LICSW), Mental Health Counseling (LMHC), or Psychology (PhD or PsyD).
CPR/BLS certified.
Excellent working knowledge of pediatric behavioral health and evidence-based treatment for medical and mental health conditions, particularly for pediatric and OB populations.
Ability to work through brief patient contacts and make quick, accurate clinical assessments of mental and behavioral conditions.
Comfort working at the pace of primary care and as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Strong communication skills.
Good knowledge of child psychopathology and psychopharmacology.
Ability to design and implement clinical pathways and protocols for treatment of selected chronic conditions.

Nice To Haves

Cape Verdean Creole, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, French, or Spanish language skills.

Responsibilities

Provide culturally sensitive assessment, consultation, and brief intervention for psychological or psychiatric problems and disorders, using DSM-5 for diagnostic clarification.
Evaluate crisis situations and provide appropriate interventions and treatment planning, including suicide and homicide risk assessments.
Assist the primary care team in developing care-management processes, including guidelines, disease-management techniques, case management, and patient education to improve chronic-disease self-management.
Provide clinical services and treatment planning for pediatric and OB/GYN behavioral health and behavioral medicine concerns, including mood and behavior management, anxiety, school-related patient advocacy, substance-use screening and referral, psychotropic medication response checks when appropriate, stress and anger management, health behavior and disease management, medication adherence, weight management, sleep hygiene, and chronic-disease prevention.
Use appropriate interventions, including psychoeducation, advocacy, positive-parenting interventions, relaxation training and skill building, cognitive-behavioral therapy, child-based mindfulness, behavioral structure and scheduling, goal setting, problem solving, exercise, and solution-focused strategies.
Facilitate consultation between primary care providers and Social Services staff for patient co-management.
Facilitate initial connections to internal and community-based mental health and social service agencies, benefits agencies, schools, and other resources.
Participate in Clinical Treatment Team meetings to support comprehensive treatment planning for clients and families.
Participate in Administrative Treatment Team meetings to identify problems with patient services and recommend improvements.
Assist with the Grow Clinic.
Manage the Reach Out and Read program, including ordering books, organizing two main events, maintaining lightly used books for the waiting area, and completing quarterly reports.
Assist with outcome measures and data collection when requested.
Document services, including behavioral health services, in the EHR as appropriate.
Provide supervision to other Behavioral Health staff when appropriate.
Perform other duties as assigned.