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Become a member of the Collaborative Care integrated behavioral health program as it continues to expand to Michigan. The mission is to improve the quality of life for older adults living with the challenges of behavioral health needs and chronic health conditions. We do this through the best practice Collaborative Care model focused on health behaviors and behavioral health for patients in primary care settings.
The Behavioral Health Integration Clinician is a central member of a patient's collaborative care team. The core team includes the patient's medical provider and psychiatric consultant. The Behavioral Health Integration Clinician is responsible for providing high quality and evidence based patient support by performing individual assessment and development of treatment plans, providing psychotherapy, coordinating the community and the mental and physical health care of patients on an assigned patient caseload.
Duties and Responsibilities

• Screen and assess patients for mental health and substance abuse disorders. Facilitate patient engagement, treatment plans, and follow-up care.
• Provide brief behavioral interventions using evidence-based techniques such as behavioral activation, problem-solving treatment, motivational interviewing, or other treatments as appropriate supported by the clinical technology software.
• Support psychotropic medication management as prescribed by medical providers, focusing on treatment adherence monitoring, side effects, and effectiveness of treatment.
• Provide health behavior and social determinants of health interventions to improve functioning and improvements in medical outcomes.
• Systematically track treatment response and monitor patients (in person, video or by telephone) for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.
• Provide patient education about common mental health and substance abuse disorders and the available treatment options.
• Provide or facilitate in-clinic or outside referrals to evidence-based psychosocial treatments (e.g. problem-solving treatment or behavioral activation) as clinically indicated.
• Participate in regularly scheduled (usually weekly) caseload consultation with the psychiatric consultant and communicate resulting treatment recommendations to the patient's medical provider.
• Track patients follow up and clinical outcomes using the EHR. Document in-person, video and telephone encounters in the EHR and use the system and established clinical workflows to identify and re-engage patients.
• Document patient progress and treatment recommendations in EHR and other required systems to be shared with medical providers, psychiatric consultants, and other treating providers.
• Facilitate 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.
• Actively participate in process improvement by identifying areas of inefficiency and contributes to opportunities for enhancement.
• Attend meetings and complete therapy primary by video conference with periodic (approximately once a month) visits in person to clinics to connect with the clinicians and administrators to ensure collaborative workflows are in place.
• Clinician will be expected to meet performance metrics each month as determined by the clinical manager and clinical director.

Requirements

• A minimum of a master's degree in social work, Psychology, Counseling, Rehabilitation, or other relevant field.
• 3-5+ years of experience in behavioral health intervention clinical work, case management, and/or community care coordination.
• Working with various populations, including older adult Medicare populations, who have chronic medical and behavioral health challenges.
• Active independent clinical license in Michigan. Eligible licenses include:
  • Licensed Master Social Worker - Clinical (LMSW)
  • Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
  • Licensed Psychologist
• Current enrollment in the state's Medicaid & Medicare is preferred but eligibility for such at a minimum is required. License eligible candidates who have completed their board exam and are completing clinical hours under supervision are eligible to apply.
• The position is primarily remote with the majority of services provided telephonically or via video; however, your work location in the designated state is required. Given the remote nature of the position, stable high-speed internet is expected.
• Proficiency in operating computer systems and utilizing multiple software applications is required. The ideal candidate would be proficient in utilizing electronic medical records, scheduling systems, remote phone systems and video systems.

Schedule
Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern time.
Primarily remote work environment. Behavioral Health Integration Clinicians will join meetings and complete therapy primarily by video conference, periodically by phone and will also visit clinics in person periodically.