Behavioral Health Consultant
Behavioral Health Consultant
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$ 26 - 39
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Job Description
Job Summary
The Behavioral Health Consultant will provide treatment for a wide variety of mental health psychosocial motivational and medical concerns including management of anxiety depression substance abuse smoking cessation sleep hygiene and HIV/AIDS among other behavioral health needs identified by the patient.
Essential Functions
- Competency in providing cognitive and behavioral interventions to individuals families couples and groups with behavioral health/substance abuse problems in a primary care setting.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with primary care staff patients and other behavioral health clinicians. Ability and desire to work with diverse population.
- Individual consultation with patients include:
- Screening all patients for substance use sexual risk taking medication adherence mental health disorders and adverse childhood experiences using an empirically validated measure.
- Collaborating with primary care providers for patients with a positive screen for behavioral health support to determine the most appropriate treatment intervention.
- Providing motivational interviewing and psycho-education for all patients and their support systems on mitigating risks for substance abuse and mental health disorders and prevention strategies.
- Providing brief problem-solving cognitive interventions aimed at modifying negative cognition and consequences while promoting self-efficacy and increasing health belief.
- Creating a Self-Care Plan and skills training to facilitate disease self- management improved coping distress tolerance and stress reduction by way of self- regulatory and emotional regulatory skill building.
- Alerting appropriate clinic staff and aiding in crisis intervention/de-escalation as needed.
- Learn and apply current best behavioral health practices for primary care settings.
- Interact closely with the other clinicians in the practice Behavioral Health Program Manager Chief of Immunology Practice Plan Manager Manager of Medical Case Management Prevention Manager Research Director and Development Manager by participating in regular meetings for purposes of addressing management issues and quality assurance.
- Assist support and lead trauma informed practices and trainings for staff in addition to educational programs as necessary.
- Must be professional and possess the ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
- Able to work with diverse populations (clients and staff); sensitive to cultural economic gender and sexual orientation differences.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of a Masters Degree in Social Worker orthe equivalent combination of education and work experience. (Please review the Equivalency Chart for additional information.)
- Minimum of 2 years of experience.
- LSW - Licensed Social Workers
Preferred Qualifications
- MSW preferred
- Work in collaboration with the inter- disciplinary team to triage patients in need of short term behavioral health interventions. Establish contacts and rapport with Community Based Mental Health Providers to improve and promote overall health to ensure a continuum of mental health care as appropriate.
- Refer patients seeking long-term services to community based mental health providers.
- Work in collaboration with the PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV) team including clinicians pharmacists and research coordinators to provide HIV prevention to at-risk youth and young adults.
- Strong clinical writing skills and the ability to maintain client charts and provide reports as needed according to the policies and procedures of the DMC
Physical Demands
- Typically sitting at a desk/table
- Typically standing walking
Location
- Philadelphia PA
Additional Information
This position is classified as Non-Exempt grade K. Compensation for this grade ranges from$$ 26.16 to $39.24per hour. Please note that the offered rate for thisposition typically aligns with the minimum to midrange of this grade but it can vary based on thesuccessful candidates qualifications and experience department budget and an internal equity review.
Applicants are encouraged to explore the Professional Staff salary structure and CompensationGuidelines & Policies for more details on Drexels compensation information about benefits please review Drexels Benefits Brochure.
Special Instructions to the Applicant
Please make sure you upload your CV/resume and cover letter when submitting your application.
A review of applicants will begin once a suitable candidate pool is identified.
Required Experience:
Contract
Employment Type
Part-Time
