Bilingual LCSW/MFT/LPCC (Care Management, Remote Flexibility)
About Pair Team
Pair Team is on a mission to improve the wellbeing of underserved communities by connecting them to high-quality care.
Pair Team cares for the highest-need Medicaid recipients through a community-led model. We build local partnerships with shelters, food pantries, and other community-based organizations to turn them into a site of care. As a support system for the community, we provide wraparound clinical services, up-skill CBO staff to become Community Health Workers, and utilize our proprietary data-driven technology platform, Arc, for care coordination.
Our Values
- Lead with integrity:We keep our commitments and take responsibility for our actions.
- Embrace challenges:We help each other to learn and provide feedback using candor and kindness.
- Break through walls:We go the extra mile for our patients, partners and one another.
- Act beyond yourself:We build each other up and respect boundaries.
- Care comes first:We hold ourselves to the highest standards for our patients.
We are looking for a highly motivated full-time Behavioral Health Care Manager who is willing to think creatively and empathically to help our team change the way people access healthcare.
As Behavioral Health Care Manager, you will play a critical role in our whole-person, interdisciplinary care model by providing mental health resources and therapeutic interventions for individuals living with Serious Mental Illness, Substance Use Disorder, experiencing homelessness, and/or those who have high medical needs.
What You’ll Do
- Primarily work with and support enrolled individuals who struggle with severe mental illness or substance use disorders.
- Use evidence-based approaches to provide short-term interventions and behavioral activation strategies.
- Provide brief crisis intervention techniques and warm hand-offs to local crisis resources as needed.
- Assist with linkage to ongoing behavioral health treatment upon individual’s completion of participation in ECM.
- Support ECM team’s caseload to identify and address barriers to care.
- Educate individuals on behavioral health conditions to improve health literacy.
- Collaborate on care issues with Enhanced Care Management team by participating in systematic case reviews.
- Track and manage caseloads using electronic medical records.
What You’ll Need
- LCSW, LMFT, or LPCC license issued by the state of California.
- Strong understanding of cultural fluency.
- Demonstrated professional or personal lived experience working closely with individuals experiencing complex chronic needs.
- Strong technical skills and comfort with technology innovation.
- You are physically located in or near Santa Cruz, California.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A fantastic listener and skilled at “reading people.”
- Comfortable building relationships with new people.
- Zest for problem solving, seeking answers, and thinking outside the box.
- Detail-oriented and organized self-starter.
- Reliable and comfortable in an ever-changing environment.
Pair Team is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and strive to provide an inclusive environment for all applicants and employees.
#J-18808-Ljbffr
