St. Mary's Health & Clearwater Valley Health - Behavioral Health Consultant-Telehealth; Quality Assurance Specialist-PRN
Cottonwood, Idaho
The Behavioral Health Consultant (BHC) program provides a collaborative framework for an integrated team-based process in the outpatient primary or specialty care clinics. BHC provides brief behavioral health interventions for patients with chronic illness whose emotional and/or behavioral issues negatively impact their disease management. The BHC's role is to support the ongoing behavioral health interventions of the primary care provider, and the focus is to resolve problems within the primary care service context. The referring primary care provider remains the overall care manager.
This position will provide screening, triage, case management, and clinical intervention services to individuals receiving care in the primary or specialty care clinics. BHC will provide consultation and assist providers on the management of behavioral concerns in primary care and assist in the triaging and managing of emergent referrals. Patient encounters may be assigned via telehealth and job duties will be performed remotely.
Essential Job Functions:
- Serve as a core member of the health care team within primary care.
- Provide brief clinical intervention to a caseload of primary or specialty care patients per established standards and guidelines. Functions include engagement and relationship building, assessment, treatment planning, therapeutic interventions, interdisciplinary coordination, coordinating discharge plans, and monitoring referrals. Secondary function is to assist with resource location and advocating for benefits.
- Provide brief intervention therapy for clients who are not in need of longer-term mental health services or who present in the primary care environment and require more immediate attention. Interventions include motivational enhancement counseling, adjustment to illness, treatment adherence issues, behavior modifications, stress management, and psycho-education.
- Provide mental health triage for clients referred by other providers in the primary care setting and provide crisis intervention for clients with more emergent behavioral health needs.
- Effectively collaborate with health care providers and case managers within Clearwater Valley and/or St. Mary’s and the larger community to meet the needs of mutual clients, including coordinating interdisciplinary case conferences.
- Assist patients with transportation issues that impact treatment adherence. Appropriately refer clients to community resources and consistently monitor the outcomes of said referrals.
- Complete documentation of services in a legible manner in accordance with established formats.
- Collaborate with other Clearwater Valley and/or St. Mary’s departments, i.e., Case Managers, Community Health Workers, Respiratory Therapy, etc., to ensure continuity of care and a seamless transition back to primary or specialty care.
- Regular and predictable attendance is an essential job function.
- In conjunction with the Director of Population Health, collaborate with Kootenai Health Behavioral Health to optimize documentation integrity and compliance, optimize billing processes, collect/monitor data and clinical and mental health outcomes, referral management, peer review, and other quality initiatives as needed.
- Provide educational opportunities for BH Team, staff, and communities.
- Support BH Team as needed, which may include some clinical supervision.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Social Work or Psychology
- 3-5 years of previous relevant experience working in a mental health facility or practice is preferred
- Licensed LCPC or LCSW certification
Joint Position, PRN, 6-10 hours per week
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