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About the Role

The Behavioral Health Consultant provides direct patient/family care through assessments, collateral consultation and therapeutic interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient/family care through assessments, collateral consultation and therapeutic interventions.
• Collaborates with others in a team setting.
• Conducts interventions to support health behavior changes related to sleep, smoking, nutrition, exercise and chronic health conditions such as diabetes.
• Effectively treats a wide scope of behavioral health issues, including trauma, as well as relationship and intimacy issues amongst couples caused by body image issues, low libido, lack of interest, sexual dysfunction, postpartum depression, adjustment disorder and anxiety.
• Triages patients accurately and efficiently in a variety of Community Health Network settings.
• Demonstrates effective utilization of outcome scales.
• Ensures documentation is appropriate and timely.
• Assists in staff consultation/supervision and/or training.
• Integrates applicable research into clinical protocol.
• Plans, develops and facilitates trainings on specific bio-psychosocial approaches for the team.
• Assists with management of urgent behavioral health needs with medical providers.
• Provides direct clinical services for patients within a team of multidisciplinary health care providers.
• Conducts comprehensive diagnostic assessments.
• Uses evidence-based behavioral health interventions for patient populations within the bio-psychological model for health.
• Provides comprehensive links to other treatment programs within the continuum as is appropriate to patient treatment needs.
• Recognizes and commits to the critical importance of customer/patient satisfaction.
• Mentors, trains and orients new BHC’s and serves as a resource on mental health/treatment challenges for multidisciplinary team.
• Communicates with medical providers, and staff, the recommended behavioral health interventions in support of the medical treatment plan.
• Works collaboratively with the Team Leader to promote program quality/integrity and to achieve department goals and objectives.
• Complies with all applicable Behavioral Care Services policies and procedures.
• Actively involved in professional development and education commensurate with state licensure requirements.
• Builds knowledge of treatment adherence and chronic-disease management.
• Builds medical literacy skills.

Requirements

• LCSW, LMHC, or LMFT in the State of Indiana required.
• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in a mental health related field required.
• 2 + years of experience providing mental health treatment required.

Skills

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Problem-solving
• Conventional therapies (CBT, MI, ACT)
• Complementary therapies (meditation, relaxation, breathing techniques)
• Health behavior change interventions
• Treatment of wide scope of behavioral health issues
• Triage
• Outcome scale utilization
• Timely and appropriate documentation
• Staff consultation/supervision/training
• Research integration
• Training development and facilitation
• Urgent behavioral health needs management
• Direct clinical services
• Comprehensive diagnostic assessments
• Evidence-based behavioral health interventions
• Bio-psychological model for health
• Patient linkage to treatment programs
• Customer/patient satisfaction
• Mentoring
• Training and orientation
• Medical provider communication
• Team collaboration
• Adherence to policies and procedures
• Professional development
• Treatment adherence knowledge
• Chronic-disease management knowledge
• Medical literacy

Location

• State of Indiana

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 2+ years of experience

Education Level

• Master's degree

About the Company

• Community Health Network was created by our neighbors, for our neighbors.
• Over 60 years later, “community” is still the heart of our organization.
• It means providing our neighbors with the best care possible, backed by state-of-the-art technology.
• It means getting involved in the communities we serve through volunteer opportunities and benefits initiatives.
• It means ensuring our dedicated caregivers can learn and grow to stay at the top of their fields and to better serve our patients.
• Exceptional care, simply delivered.