Behavioral Health Counselor (58467)

Sanitas USA, Inc.; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Jacksonville is seeking a Behavioral Health Counselor to provide comprehensive mental health care in a primary care setting. The role involves collaborating with health professionals, developing care plans, and providing psychoeducation to promote patient autonomy and well-being.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of relevant experience.
• BLS certification required.
• Able to work effectively with mentally or emotionally disabled individuals.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement care plans for patients.
• Collaborate with health professionals for comprehensive patient care.
• Guide patients in developing strategies to manage their diagnosis.

Skills

Good communication

Empathy

Ability to show compassion

Flexible schedule

Education

Master’s degree in counseling or related field

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: Jacksonville - Regency Park - Jacksonville, FL

Position Type: Full Time

Education Level: 4 Year Degree

Salary Range: Undisclosed

Travel Percentage: Up to 5%

Job Shift: Day

Job Category: Mental Health

Description

“Sanitas is a global healthcare organization expanding across the United States. Our services include primary care, urgent care, nutrition, lab, diagnostic, health care education and resources for ourpatients. We strive to attract professionals who believe in our mission, vision and are dedicated to the service of ourpatients and their families creating a memorableexperiencethrough compassion, respect,and kindness.”

Job Summary

Behavioral health counselors are core members of the Sanitas medical team and provide hope, empowerment, and psychoeducation in order to promote autonomy and self-management by arranging comprehensive mental health care services in a primary care setting.

Essential Job Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Develop and implement care plans.
• Complete and maintain all documentation in a timely and accurate manner according to all federal, state and center guidelines.
• Collaborate with a variety of health professionals in the patient’s circle of care including but not limited to primary care providers, care nurses, care coordinators, community health workers, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals and specialists.
• Ensure a comprehensive continuity of care.
• Provide individual, family or group educational interventions.
• Guide patients in the development of skills and strategies for dealing with their diagnosis.
• Assist patients in adjusting to life and making changes.
• Participate in regularly scheduled weekly caseload consultation and complex case review meetings.
• Facilitate care plan adjusts for patients who are not improving as expected in consultation with the medical providers.
• Facilitate referrals to the appropriate provider or in-house intervention program as clinically indicated.
• Connect patients and family members with community and social resources.
• Guide clinical staff on how to manage common behavioral health situations.
• Screen and assess patients for common mental health and substance abuse disorders.
• Facilitate patient engagement and follow-up care.
• Support psychotropic medication management as prescribed by medical providers, focusing on treatment adherence monitoring, side effects, and effectiveness of treatment.
• Promote early detection, accurate diagnosis, personalized treatment, and ongoing support, ultimately leading to improved overall well-being for individuals facing these challenges.
• Track treatment response and monitor patients for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.
• Provide or facilitate in-clinic or outside referrals to evidence-based psychosocial as clinically indicated.
• Guide clinical staff on how to manage common behavioral health situations.
• Resolve emergency problems in crisis situations.

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Qualifications

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities

Required Education

• Master’s degree in counseling or related field (Social work, Mental health counseling, marriage and couples’ therapy) from accredited program.

Required Experience

• Relevant experience 1 year.

Required Licenses and Certifications

• BLS certification

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with mentally or emotionally disabled persons and their families.
• Flexible schedule weekdays – weekends.
• Good communication and listening skills.
• Ability to show empathy and compassion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferably 1 year of experience providing CBT-based interventions with adults with depression and anxiety.

Financial Responsibilities

None of the above - This position does not currently handle physical money or negotiate contracts

N/A

Budget Responsibilities

This position does not currently have Budget Responsibility

N/A

Languages

English	Advanced
Spanish	Preferred
Creole	Preferred

Travel

Required

Ability to travel in assigned region.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work standing up, walk, use hands to operate tools and equipment and must be able to exert regularly up to 10 pounds of force, frequently exert 30 pounds of force and occasionally exert 50 pounds of force to constantly perform the essential job functions. The employee will be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, bend, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, and pull. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Environmental Conditions

Inside: The employee is subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to noise; there may be sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.

Physical/Environmental Activities

Please indicate with an X the frequency for the activities that apply to the essential functions of the job based on the chart below. Please select Not Required for physical demands that aren’t essential to job performance.

Working Condition	Not Required	Occasionally (1-33%)	Frequently (34-66%)	Constantly (67-100%)
Must be able to travel to multiple locations for work (i.e. travel to attend meetings, events, conferences).	X
May be exposed to outdoor weather conditions of cold, heat, wet, and humidity.	X
May be exposed to outdoor or warehouse conditions of loud noises, vibration, fumes, dust, odors, and mists.	X
Must be able to ascend and descend ladders, stairs, or other equipment.	X
Subject to exposure to hazardous material.	X

We are an Equal Opportunity/Protected Veteran/Disabled Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable culture for our employees and communities.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of the company. Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholder’s responsibility.