CoCM Behavioral Health Care Manager - Case Management - Requisition #373246

Oaklawn Hospital•Marshall, MI

About The Position

The behavioral health care manager is a core member of the collaborative care team, including the patient's medical provider and psychiatric consultant, as well as the larger primary care team or medical team. The behavioral health care manager is responsible for supporting and coordinating the mental and physical health care of patients on an assigned patient caseload with the patient's medical provider and, when appropriate, other mental health providers.

Requirements

Masters Level licensure candidate/trainee (e.g. LMSW)
Current LMSW licensure or be eligible for licensure by Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
Five (5) years' experience working as a LMSW

Responsibilities

Supports 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.
Screens and assesses patients for common mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Facilitate patient engagement and follow-up care.
Provides patient education about common mental health and substance abuse disorders and the available treatment options.
Systematically tracks treatment response and monitor patients (in person or by telephone) for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.
Supports psychotropic medication management as prescribed by medical providers, focusing on treatment adherence monitoring, side effects, and effectiveness of treatment.
Provides brief behavioral interventions using evidence-based techniques such as behavioral activation, problem-solving treatment, motivational interviewing, or other treatments as appropriate.
Provides or facilitate in-clinic or outside referrals to evidence-based psychosocial treatments (e.g. problem-solving treatment or behavioral activation) as clinically indicated.
Participates in regularly scheduled (usually weekly) caseload consultation with the psychiatric consultant and communicates resulting treatment recommendations to the patient's medical provider.
Tracks patients follow up and clinical outcomes using a registry.
Documents patient progress and treatment recommendations in EHR and other required systems to be shared with medical providers, psychiatric consultants, and other treating providers.
Facilitates 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.
Facilitates referrals for clinically indicated services outside of the organization (e.g., social services such as housing assistance, vocational rehabilitation, mental health specialty care, substance abuse treatment).
Develops and completes relapse prevention self-management plan with patients who have achieved their treatment goals and are soon to be discharged from the caseload.