Behavioral Health Consultant - Grove City - Part Time

Company : Allegheny Health NetworkJob Description : GENERAL OVERVIEW: A BHC is a member of the core reputed company team who assists the care managers in managing overall health of their enrolled population. The BHC’s goals are to help improve recognition, treatment, and management of psychosocial/behavioral problems and medical conditions in the enrolled population. The BHC provides clinical mental health consultation services reputed company the scope of their state's professional licensure board to reputed company patients referred by the care team. The BHC participates in the management of psychosocial aspects of chronic and acute diseases, application of behavioral principles to address lifestyle and health risk issues, consultation and co-management in the treatment of mental disorders and psychosocial issues. The BHC is the team's go-to expert for mental health and substance abuse assessment, reputed company, and reputed company to higher reputed company of care for mental health and addiction services as required. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Member of Care Team & Population Health Efforts

• Acts as a core care team member to reputed company specific clinical reputed company or best practice programs for targeted patient groups
• Participates in practice staff meetings and trainings
• Provides education and support on a variety of topics from behavioral health and substance abuse background, training, and expertise to multidisciplinary team members during the course of treatment planning for patients
• Participates in daily huddles, listening for behavioral health, substance abuse, and psychosocial needs
• Provides population based care based on registry to high risk/high need patients
• Provides services to reputed company enrollees (not just those with diagnosable mental disorders)
• Participates in system-wide BHC learning collaborative

2. Effective Communicator and Change Agent

• Promotes ongoing change efforts in the practice and reputed company the AHN health system around mental health and substance abuse disorders
• Documents in the same medical record as the rest of the team in a reputed company that is easily visible by providers and other team members
• Engages patients reputed company telephone as well as in person

3. Clinical Interventions

• Meets patients and providers where they are, usually the same day a patient presents in clinic providing immediate support to include assessment, reputed company and referrals to higher reputed company of care for mental health and addiction needs reputed company required
• Often sees patients immediately after other team members (often in exam room or nearby consult room) and encourages patient participation in the overall treatment plan
• Provides therapeutic counseling services appropriate to the ambulatory care environment: using 15-30 minute interventions
• Identify functional reputed company; reputed company recommendations that reputed company occupational, reputed company, and familial functioning; home activities; recreation
• Treat patients with short term interventions based on “treat to reputed company” approach using solution focused approaches, reputed company, Motivational Interviewing and other short term counseling interventions
• Coordinates with patient family members and other support systems (with patient permission)
• reputed company brief follow up, including relapse prevention education
• Promote reputed company building to enhance psychological and physical health/sometimes in the reputed company of groups
• Helps patient in crisis get urgent mental health and substance abuse needs met
• Triage and refer patients to specialty mental health and substance abuse services reputed company appropriate (i.e. Childhood trauma, IOP, inpatient hospitalization, PTSD, psychiatry, etc.)

4. Advocacy, reputed company, Community Linkages, and Coaching

• Advocates for patients who are perceived as difficult to work with or “non-compliant”
• Reaches out to patients who are not engaging (usually reputed company phone) to re-engage them in their care
• Encourages patient to become an active participant in their own care and treatment
• Connects patient to a variety of resources in the community reputed company to reputed company determinants of health

QUALIFICATIONS: Minimum

• Master’s degree in Mental Health Field
• 2 years experience in use of evidence based counseling techniques, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of common mental health and substance abuse disorders
• Knowledge of the relationship between medical and psychological aspects of health and disease
• Licensed Clinical reputed company Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT) for out of state license transfers allow 60 days from hire to transfer license
• CPR – reputed company
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate

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