Behavioral Health Clinician - Embedded Psych Services, Hybrid

Dartmouth Health; Lebanon (NH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

Dartmouth Health seeks a Behavioral Health Clinician to join a collaborative primary care team in Lebanon, NH. This full-time, 40-hour week role offers hybrid work with three days in the office and two days remote, after orientation.

A sign-on/retention incentive of up to $7,500 is available for external hires under certain conditions. Responsibilities include delivering short-term, evidence-based behavioral health services within the Collaborative Care model, coordinating with PCPs, screening

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage & Family Therapy/Therapy, or Addiction Counseling.
• Must have provided psychological services in the past 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Address behavioral health needs in primary care using the Collaborative Care model, including consults and short-term counseling.
• Partner with PCP teams to screen for substance use disorders and develop care plans.
• Enroll referrals into collaborative care with in-person and telephone outreach up to 12 weeks.
• Use evidence-based procedures and measure symptoms with questionnaires and tools.
• Maintain a patient registry, monitor progress and report program metrics.
• Provide short-term counseling (problem-solving therapy, brief CBT, motivational interviewing).
• Communicate with patients and care teams to support team-based care.
• Refer patients to higher levels of care when needed; support trainees and supervision.

Skills

Collaborative care

Team collaboration

Evidence-based practice

Education

Master’s degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, MFT, or MLADC

Job description

Overview

Sign-On/Retention incentives: up to $7,500*

TheBehavioral Health Clinicianprovides 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 majorityadult 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.

Responsibilities

1. As a licensed independent mental health clinician 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, which includes consults, short-term counseling, care coordination, outreach and data collection.
2. Partners with PCP teams to systematically screen and assess for opiate misuse and other substance use disorders. Conduct triage visits and/or initial evaluations to help clarify behavioral health concerns and develop an individualized, appropriate care plan.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Effectively maintains and manages a patient registry to track patients, monitor progress and report program focused metrics.
6. Provides limited face-to-face, short-term counseling including; problem-solving therapy, brief CBT, motivational interviewing or brief supportive therapy.
7. Proactively communicates with patients, primary care team members and the consulting psychiatrist to aid in effective, patient-centered, team-based care.
8. Assists patients in need of higher levels or care, specialty mental health or substance use services, outside of primary care, to connect with appropriate treatment resources.
9. Performs other duties as required or assigned.
10. Supports the department’s educational and workforce development mission by providing supervision and learning opportunities for trainees in mental health fields. This may include supervising student internships and/or providing clinical supervision toward licensure for master’s prepared clinicians.

Qualifications

• 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

Required Licensure/Certifications

- Licensed or license-eligible as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), or Master Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor (MLADC) in the State of NH.

• Remote: Hybrid Remote
• Area of Interest: Allied Health
• Pay Range: $70,470.40/Yr. - $109,241.60/Yr. (Based on 40 hours per week, otherwise pro rata)
• FTE/Hours per pay period: 1.00 - 1.00 - 40 hrs/week
• Shift: Day
• Job ID: 33579

Dartmouth Health offers a total compensation package that includes a comprehensive selection of benefits. Our Core Benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short and long term disability, paid time off, and retirement plans. Click here for information on these benefits and more: Benefits | DHMC and Clinics Careers

Dartmouth Health is an Affinitive Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.