Description

Position Summary:

Reporting directly to and coordinating closely with the Director of Behavioral Health, the Lead BH Clinician for Special Programs is a core member of the BH Department with clinical and programmatic responsibilities.

The Lead BH Clinician for Special Programs- provides clinical care to patients and families of all ages within a primary care setting, offers clinical supervision to BH clinicians, interns, and allied staff, and collaborates across health center departments and sites to develop, implement, and monitor specialized integrated BH services.

The Lead BH Clinician for Special Programs works to improve the behavioral health of Codman’s patient population by caring for individual patients, developing BH staff, and maintaining BH programs for patient populations with specialized needs. This Lead Clinician supports the health center in achieving population-based quality of care measures and understands that every health center patient is a potential BH Department patient.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Clinical Care: Work as an integrated member of the primary care and urgent care teams to provide assessment, crisis response, in the moment intervention, and short-term care to patients presenting with BH needs. (50%)
• Staff Supervision and Development: Provide supervision for up to 6 supervisees, which may include interns, pre-licensed clinicians, licensed clinicians, family partners, and case managers. Provide clinical support and feedback to staff to support staff development and growth. Support pre-licensed clinicians in preparing for licensure. Review and monitor supervisees’ clinical documentation including progress notes, diagnostic evaluations, and treatment plans to meet compliance, regulatory, and insurance standards. Plan and facilitate BH staff meetings. (25%)
• Programs: Collaborate interdepartmentally and across health center sites to develop, implement, support, and monitor integrated behavioral health programming aligned with the needs of specialized populations, care quality metrics, and the strategic goals of the behavioral health department and health center. (25%)
• Review, revise and validate training modules and curricula content using text or e-books, participant data and engagement with subject matter experts.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• LICSW licensure with 2 years post-independent license experience (required)
• At least two years' experience providing clinical supervision (required)
• Culturally humble and informed clinical therapy experience with patients across the lifespan through therapy services including individual, couples, family, and group work (required)
• High ethical standards and the ability to maintain professional licensing (required)
• Able to successfully complete insurance credentialing (required)
• Strong clinical documentation skills incorporating DSM-5-TR diagnoses and facilitating communication with patients and medical providers (required)
• Strong time management, systems thinking, and communication skills (required)
• Experience with integrated behavioral health in primary care (required)
• Experience with electronic health records (required) and Epic (preferred)
• Fluency in Haitian Creole or Spanish (preferred)

Physical Requirements

Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and dedication to the mission of Codman Square Health Center

Must be able to stand or sit for prolonged periods (50% of the time)

Must be able to lift 10 pounds and load onto shelves