Behavioral Health Therapist

Job Title: Behavioral Health Therapist

Job Description:

• Provides direct integrated co-occurring behavioral health and substance use services in support of integrated primary care and behavioral health services.
• Maintains a caseload of patients engaging in co-occurring behavioral health and substance use services to provide therapeutic support that meets their life needs.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Analytical and Critical Thinking:

• Conducts brief, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate screenings.
• Conducts time-limited assessments.
• Applies knowledge of evidence-based practice, including empirical bases of assessment, intervention, and other clinical applications, expertise, and patient preferences to individuals, couples, groups, and families, including adults, children, and adolescents as assigned.
• Assesses both behavioral health and substance use needs and determines the most appropriate clinical interventions to best fit patient needs.
• Provides emergency assessment of patients in crisis and facilitates psychiatric hospitalization if needed.
• Assesses discharge readiness throughout the course of treatment.

Problem Solving and Decision Making:

• Creates and implements integrated treatment plans, ensuring access to organizational and external services within allotted time frames.
• Independently evaluates treatment progress and modifies planning as indicated, even in the absence of established outcome measures.

Patient Focus:

• Provides referrals for internal and external services.
• Demonstrates ability to engage patients and/or families who are not engaged in services through outreach and follow-up.

Communication:

• Provides consultation to medical providers, other CBHC staff, and other service providers to facilitate a coordinated continuum of care within the primary care setting.
• Participates in staff meetings as required.
• Ensures verbal, nonverbal, and written communications are informative and well-integrated.
• Participates in system change and promotes change within Chase Brexton Health Care.
• Ensures progress notes are accessible to the patient's care team and considers that they may be accessible to the patient.

Compliance, Policy, and Procedure:

• Documents all behavioral health services as directed by CBHC policy, State requirements, and professional standards.
• Adheres to departmental productivity standards and policy and procedures.
• If providing supervision: Demonstrates knowledge of supervision models and practices; demonstrates knowledge of and effectively addresses limits of competency to supervise.
• Assesses for risk using a standardized measure (e.g., CAMS; C-SSRS).
• Completes all SuccessFactors assignments as assigned.
• Demonstrates appropriate use of billing orders for all clinical documentation.

Workplace Computers and Equipment:

• Utilizes Electronic Health Record to support and improve integrated healthcare.

Willingness to Learn:

• Meets mandatory continuing education requirements to maintain licensure/certification.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Skills and Abilities:

• Must have the ability to provide services that are relevant to the culture of the patient and their family.
• Must be able to identify and address disparities in healthcare access and quality.
• Must be able to adapt services to cultural norms and promote diversity among the providers working in interprofessional teams.
• Must be familiar with open access model to care in community mental health and healthcare settings.
• Must be able to adapt to changes in the field of Health Care both state-wide and nationally.

Education and/or Experience:

• Degree required: Master's Degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psy D, or PhD.
• Licensure Preferred: LCSW-C, LCPC, Psychologist.
• Licensure Required: Licensure in the state of Maryland.
• Preferred: Two years of experience in the provision of outpatient mental health and/or substance use services with adults, adolescents, and/or children. Experience in a primary care setting is strongly preferred.
• Preferred: Multi-Lingual.