What are the responsibilities and job description for the Behavioral Health Clinician - Internal Medicine position at MaineHealth Accountable Care Organization?
Location : Rockport, ME
Facility : MaineHealth Behavioral Health
Schedule : Full Time
Job Category : Professional - Clinical
Req # : 201
Date Posted : Jan 7, 2025
MaineHealth Behavioral Health is offering up to $10,000 Sign-on bonus for all eligible Clinicians!
- Eligible candidates must be hired (offer accepted) into a Full or Part-time Clinician position. Bonus amount prorated for Part-time hires; per diem hires are ineligible.
- Current MaineHealth member employees are ineligible; former MaineHealth Members are ineligible until greater than 3 months separation from employment.
Maine state licensure to practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) is required.
Are you ready for a change? Looking to become part of a multidisciplinary team focused on providing holistic care to patients? Interested in bridging together medical care and behavioral health care? Consider a role as a behavioral health clinician integrated into a primary care setting. This is a 40-hour position, located at the MaineHealth Primary Care Internal Medicine Practice Rockport. This well-established practice offers complete care to adult patients and is experienced in integrating behavioral health into the patient experience. The practice values the partnership with behavioral health clinicians and collaborates to optimize patient outcomes. Being integrated into a practice reduces stigma for patients, increasing their willingness to participate in care.
The clinician’s role includes providing screening, assessments, and focused brief treatment to patients of the practice. Treatment structure includes individual, family, and group work. Additional functions of the role include providing curbside consultation to providers, linking patients to additional services and supports, and participating in population health activities targeting the health and wellbeing of specific groups. Candidates must be comfortable working with all age groups. Knowledge of and interest in treating substance use disorders is preferred.
Your work is enhanced by being part of a larger team with solid experience in integrated work. Collaborative work with psychiatrists and other integrated clinicians in the MaineHealth system adds to the experience. Individual supervision, group supervision, psychiatry consultation, and quarterly trainings are benefits of this position.
This position will be a generalist Master's Level mental health Clinician with interest, training, and / or experience integrating mental health services into the primary care setting. This position will be placed in primary care practices, working with adults, families, and children; and providing assessment, screening, and referral services. Additionally, brief individual therapy, prevention, and educational services will be provided, including collaborative work with primary care physicians and their office staff, psychiatrists, and other behavioral health providers.
Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)
Additional Information
With a career at any of the MaineHealth locations across Maine and New Hampshire, you’ll be working with health care professionals that truly value the people around them – both within the walls of the organization and the communities that surround it.
We offer benefits that support individual needs for today and flexibility to plan for tomorrow – programs such as paid parental leave, a flexible work policy, student loan assistance, training and education, along with well-being resources for you and your family.
MaineHealth remains focused on investing in our care team and developing an inclusive environment where you can thrive and feel supported to realize your full potential. If you’re looking to build a career in a place where people help one another deliver best-in-class care, apply today.
MaineHealth policy requires all care team members to be vaccinated, including for Covid-19 and influenza, subject to eligibility for medical or religious exemptions which can only be granted in compliance with applicable law.
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