Behavioral Health Consultant

As a federally qualified health center (FQHC) we serve all people with quality healthcare, dignity, and respect. We envision a seamless health care delivery system that is proactively responsible for the medical, dental and psychosocial needs of underserved individuals, children and families residing in Kalamazoo County.

We advocate for the rights of all people to experience comprehensive healthcare that is delivered through a collaborative community network focused on quality standards of care. Our aim is to decrease health care disparities by increasing access to care through culturally sensitive medical attention, education and outreach. We work to reflect this simple motto: "Together, we are improving quality of life by providing excellent health care to all people in an environment of dignity & respect."

BENEFITS:

• Clinicians of the Family Health Center have the opportunity to apply for up to $50,000 in loan repayment through the National Health Service Loan Repayment Program.

• Highly competitive pay
• Excellent (cost effective) Health Insurance
  • PPO or PPO High Deductible Plan with Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Vision & Dental Insurance
• Company paid Life & accidental death
• Company paid long term disability Insurance
• Voluntary life, accidental death, short term disability, and other supplemental offerings
• Pre-tax 403(b) retirement plan (Discretionary employer contribution based on FHC financial performance)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 8 Paid Holidays

POSITION SUMMARY:

Behavioral Health consultants meet with our patients and may provide brief solution focused interventions, crisis assessment, evaluate for substance use disorder, and assist in linking to ongoing therapy. This unique and exciting opportunity allows you to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team working in our ambulatory medical clinics serving a diverse, underserved patient population.

As a licensed clinician, the Behavioral Health Consultant will work in an integrated team-based model of care to improve patients’ health literacy, engagement, psychosocial functioning, compliance, and overall functioning and wellbeing.

Please note, the Flu and COVID-19 vaccines are minimum work requirements at the Family Health Center.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conducts brief screenings to evaluate the needs of adults, adolescents, and children for behavioral health intervention, activation.
• Provides consultation to medical providers, Family Health Center staff, and other service providers to facilitate a coordinated continuum of care within the primary care setting.
• Provides short-term behavioral intervention to engage and motivate clients to actively manage their care.
• Participates in ongoing training in behavioral health issues and provides consultation and training to primary care staff in mental health and behavioral medicine topics including communication skills, brief intervention, counseling skills, medicine use and misuse, substance use and abuse, wellness, rehabilitation, recovery, and self-sufficiency.
• Applies knowledge of evidence-based practice, including empirical bases of assessment, intervention, and other clinical applications, expertise and patient preferences to individuals, couples, groups and families to include adults, children and adolescents as assigned.
• Provides emergency assessment of patients in crisis and facilitates psychiatric hospitalization if needed.
• Creates and implements integrated treatment plans, ensuring access to organizational and external services within allotted time frames.
• Independently evaluates treatment progress and modifies planning as indicated, even in the absence of established outcome measures
• Assesses discharge readiness throughout the course of treatment.
• Develops and maintains collaborative working relationships with community providers, initiates linkages, disseminates information, and makes referrals to appropriate services, as needed.

LICENSES:

• LLMSW, LMSW, LLPC, or LPC licensure required.

TYPICAL WORKING CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Requires 80% or more of time spent standing/walking. Independently mobile. Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires normal visual acuity and hearing.
• Ability to occasionally transfer and position patients, reposition equipment, and lift supplies weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to adapt and function in varying environments of workload, patient acuity, worksites and work shifts.
• Work is performed in a clinical setting. Contact with patients and staff.
• Exposed to communicable disease, toxic substances, medicinal preparations, and other conditions common to a clinic environment.
• Requires working under stress.

Family Health Center has the right to modify the job description's duties and functions based on the organization's needs.