Behavioral Health Clinician - Pediatrics and Internal Medicine

Behavioral Health Clinician - Pediatrics and Internal Medicine

Location : Portland, ME

Facility : MaineHealth Behavioral Health

Schedule : Full Time

Job Category : Professional - Clinical

Req # : 316

Date Posted : Jan 27, 2025

For a limited time MaineHealth is offering up to $10,000 Sign on bonus for all eligible Clinicians!

• Eligible candidates are 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.

40 Hours / week, Full-time, Monday – Friday, Day shift ~

Maine state licensure to practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) is required. May consider Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) or Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT).

This position is a unique opportunity for a clinician with interest, training and / or experience integrating behavioral health services into primary care settings. It is located at MaineHealth Medical Center Portland's Pediatric and Internal Medicine Clinic, a well-established clinic offering complete, integrated care to patients of all ages.

Your role will include providing screening, assessments, and brief focused treatment to patients of the practice. Treatment structure includes individual, family, and group work, meeting with patients in person and virtually through telehealth. In addition to clinical treatment, the clinician helps connect patients with additional resources, provides consultations and training to providers, and has the opportunity to participate in population health activities targeting the health and wellbeing of specific groups.

Applicants must be comfortable working with children of all ages (0-18), as well as adults. The work is enhanced by being part of a medical team with solid experience in integrated work, along with collaborative work with psychiatrists and other integrated clinicians in the MaineHealth system. Individual supervision, psychiatry consultation, group supervision, and quarterly trainings are added 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 role will involve working with adults, families, and children, providing assessment, screening, and referral services, as well as brief individual therapy, prevention, and educational services in collaboration 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 an individual's 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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