Intensive Outpatient Behavioral Health Counselor - Bilingual

Overview

As part of the Wellness and Holistic Addiction Medicine Clinic, the Integrated Behavioral Health Clinician (IO BHC) collaborates with addiction medicine, primary care, and specialty providers to deliver trauma-informed care to patients with complex needs. Using a harm-reduction approach, the IO BHC offers evidence-based behavioral health and substance use interventions to help patients manage their relationships with substances and alcohol. The IO BHC will assess patients' readiness for change and address emotional and psychosocial factors that often accompany substance use disorders. They will work closely with the care team to manage medical, behavioral, and substance-related issues, including crisis intervention and diagnosis of conditions such as anxiety, psychosis, depression, PTSD, and substance use disorders. In a fast-paced, community health clinic setting, the IO BHC will support patients through their recovery journey, focusing on family reunification, building healthy support systems, and stabilizing their substance use. Harm reduction, overdose prevention, and response education are also key components of this role.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessments, screening, and intervention services as an essential member of the interdisciplinary care team, through collaboration with the primary care and/or specialty providers to identify, treat, and manage patient behavioral health that is primarily affected by patients’ substance and alcohol use.
• Consult and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to provide integrated on-site care, by counselor assessment of patients’ goals, readiness for behavioral changes, progress and barriers, and appropriate level of care/ services for patients with MH/substance use disorders, with high proportion of caseloads on medications for treatment of alcohol and opioid use disorders (MAT/MOUD).
• Provide trauma-informed, person-centered care, with harm reduction approach, within collaborative addiction recovery team, and in conjunction with patients primary, specialty, acute, chronic, and preventative care.
• Provide psychoeducation around recovery models, overdose prevention, and harm reduction to patients and primary support system.
• Serve all patients who have been scheduled/referred to the AR/MAT Department and maintain low barriers to care; utilize warm handoffs with all other internal/external community social services and medical providers.

• Visits may be in-person, telehealth, co-visits, walk-in, scheduled, or as requested by another team within

  SEHWC.
• Utilize current knowledge of access to local and online recovery resources to provide clients with broad variety of pathways to recovery to support, define, and achieve personal goals.
• Collaborate with the care team to provide warm hand-offs, and referrals to appropriate level of addiction recovery and mental health care, and/or crisis services as appropriate; Provide crisis interventions as needed.
• Develop holistic patient-centered recovery plans, that support patient needs, to include basic, psychiatric, social, financial, environmental, and health needs to improve overall wellness and quality of life.
• Utilize appropriate evidence-based non-pharmacologic BH/SUD treatment modalities and interventions based on patient needs, with active knowledge of MI, CBT, CM, ME, Family Therapy, Models of Relapse Prevention, and other appropriate modalities.
• Attend patient care huddles, meetings, patient conferences, or planning sessions. These may be related to quality assurance, patient care and other related topics within the clinic.
• Ensure all tasks provided and associated with patient care, patient administrative processes and related duties comply with all regulatory and accreditation standards including The Joint Commission and CommUnityCare Standard Operating Procedures and CommUnityCare Policies and Procedures.
• Maintain all licensure and/or certification requirements for continuing education and best practices.

Qualifications

2 years

Working in the mental health field, which has included providing services to Spanish speakers, and exhibiting proficiency in Spanish/English, in a mental healthcare setting.

Required

1 year

of clinical experience in a primary care clinic, SUD/COPSD treatment services, community psychiatric, or other intensive care setting where services were provided in Spanish, as needed/applicable, without need for other translation services.

Required

LPC-Licensed Professional Counselor

Current licensure as LPC in the state of

Texas

Upon Hire

Required

or

LCSW- License Clinical Social

Worker

Current licensure as LCSW in the state of Texas

Upon Hire

Required

Basic Life Support through the American Red Cross or American Heart Association

Upon Hire

Required

Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC); National Certified Addiction Counselor  

 Upon Hire

Preferred