Behavioral Health Consultant (BHC) Kokomo Pediatrics

Welcome to Jane Pauley Community Health Center! We are seeking a Behavioral Health Consultant-BHC for our Kokomo Pediatric Practice.

Our competitive employment offerings include:

Have Balance: Investing in YOU.

• Medical, vision, and dental plans
• Generous vacation time: 216 hours annually (or pro-rated)
• 401K plan and match at 6%
• Paid life insurance plans
• Paid continuing medical education
• Work anniversary recognition

Be Supported: A Team-Based Approach

• A support structure to care for diverse patient populations
• Opportunities to grow your skills, while improving our organization
• Direct access to and communication with executive leadership

Change Lives: Caring for Our Communities

• Federal and grant funding to help those who need it most
• Key partnerships with major health systems and local groups
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in meeting needs of our patients and employees

Job Responsibilities: Behavioral Health Consultant

The Behavioral Health Consultant (BHC) provides integrated behavioral healthcare services as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team in a primary care or pediatrics setting. The BHC collaborates closely with medical providers and other care team members to support patients to achieve optimal health and behavioral health outcomes.

• Maintains a physical presence among and active communication with the medical providers and teams during clinic operating hours.
• Available to provide brief same-day interventions for patients’ behavioral health and psychosocial needs and for needs related to coping with medical conditions and treatment. Conduct risk assessments, as indicated.
• Proactively scrub medical providers’ schedules daily to identify unmet behavioral health and related needs. Proactively contacts medical team to discuss/recommend same-day BHC consultation with identified patients
• Available for limited scheduled initial interventions as appropriate.
• As per response protocols, perform consultation for all patients without ongoing behavioral health care who score above identified clinical cut-off score on behavioral health screeners.
• Participate in regular interdisciplinary team meetings and daily rounding/huddles with medical and enabling services, to review high-risk cases, coordinate care, and discuss treatment progress with medical teams
• Assist medical team to develop BHC role in response protocols for identified medical conditions and treatment issues (e.g., chronic pain, insomnia, diabetes, medication adherence, etc.)
• Provides services in exam rooms when possible, in order to underscore team-based, patient-focused care and decrease stigma around BH services.
• Performs brief, limited follow-up visits for selected patients.
• Provides psychoeducation and behavioral strategies that align with the patient’s cultural and socioeconomic background, supporting effective and respectful care.
• Refers patients with significant BH need to ongoing BH specialty services, as needed.
• Support population health initiatives, including any future registry utilization and stepped, treat-to-target care.
• Support medical team and patients as necessary with chronic disease management programs, group medical appointments/classes.
• Work with medical providers and team members to develop culturally responsive intervention strategies, enhancing the teams’ understanding of behavioral health needs in diverse patient populations.
• Work closely with Enabling Services and Referrals Departments to support meeting patients’ case management and referral needs.
• Provides medical provider with same-day verbal feedback on patient encounters.
• Prepares brief clinical documentation of findings, interventions delivered, and recommendations for medical team. Maintains clinical records and other necessary paperwork in a timely manner to comply with all administrative regulations.
• Provides psychoeducation to medical teams regarding common behavioral health conditions, psychological and behavioral aspects of common medical conditions, principles of brief evidence-based interventions, and tenets of integrated care.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Education and/or Experience

• Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Social Work, or related behavioral health field required.
• Indiana Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Marriage Counselor, Clinical Social Worker, or Family Therapist required.
• Training and experience providing pediatric behavioral health service required.
• Experience providing integrated team-based behavioral health services strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of state and county reporting requirements required.

Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office (specifically Word and Excel), Electronic Medical and Health records, and other applications.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

More about Jane Pauley Community Health Center:

Join a rewarding place to make a difference.

Working at Jane Pauley Community Health Center (JPCHC) is more than a job. It is a place to achieve work-life balance and join a collaborative team that makes a direct impact on our local communities in Central Indiana.

Our mission as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) is to promote a healthy community through the provision of accessible, respectful, and integrated healthcare with local partners to any and all individuals and families, regardless of insurance status. It is for this reason Indy’s own Emmy-winning TV news personality Jane Pauley lends her name to our organization. Today, we are experiencing exciting growth to which you can lend your talents!

Invest your skills in changing lives and let us invest in you! Thank you for considering being part of our passionate team.