Behavioral Health Clinical Lead
Full Time | Salary
Integrated Behavioral Health Team
Are you interested in serving people through exceptional, affordable, and compassionate care and inspiring all those you touch to lead full and healthy lives?
At La Clinica, we love our patients and enthusiastically treat them with the same care, respect, and dignity that we would our friends, family, and neighbors because that's who they are. If this appeals to you, La Clinica might be the right place for you to build your career. We’re looking for the right team members to treat our patients with this level of care.
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We are seeking someone passionate and excited about integrated behavioral health, specifically the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model, to support our integrated behavioral health services across multiple primary care, dental, outreach, and Women’s clinics. This is a full-time position with a balance of 50% clinical and 50% administrative duties. Clinical duties include integrated behavioral health services within a primary care clinic, and administrative duties include clinical supervision and training for integrated BHCs and behavioral health support specialists as well as BHC interns when indicated. In this role, the Clinical Lead partners with the IBH Manager to support the team in developing and maintaining solid documentation, workflows, and integration efforts. The Clinical Lead will also be part of our broader behavioral health service leadership team partnering closely with our IBH manager, psychiatric services director and our behavioral health officer in creating streamlined and stepped levels of behavioral health care for the lifespan.
Accountabilities Include:
Performs Essential Job Duties
Clinical Care Duties:
Please see job description for an integrated behavioral health clinician to see the list of required duties.
Supervisory Duties:
- Provides clinical supervision, coaching, and development for integrated BHC and BHSS team members to include goal setting and evaluations in partnership with clinic managers.
- Provides required clinical supervision of all team members ensuring the supervision effectively meets requirements for certification and/or licensure where indicated.
Recruitment and Retention Duties:
- Participates on interview committees to make hiring decisions for behavioral health positions within the assigned team working in partnership with the BH Manager.
- Responsible for carrying out onboarding plans and training supports for new behavioral health team members.
Operational Duties:
- Partners with the Behavioral Health Manager in developing content and setting direction for monthly staff meetings and educational opportunities.
- Trains team on efficient workflows and documentation standards as developed by the BH Manager with particular attention to the partnership between the BHC and BHSS team members at each site.
Quality and Compliance Duties:
- Supports chart audit review process for the integrated BHC and BHSS roles.
- Holds co-signing/clinical oversight for documentation related to specific roles within the team.
- Provides monthly group clinical learning and supervision opportunities for BHCs and BHSSs as indicated.
Equity Statement
At La Clinica, we commit to engage everyone in a welcoming, respectful, and loving way and to maintain the dignity and value of all people above everything else. These standards align with our organization’s vision of absolute excellence, open-hearted community, and well-being for all.
Customer Service:
Develops and maintains professional, support-oriented working relationships with patients, employees, team members, and community partners. Demonstrates continuous improvement in achieving “developing” and “fully competent” levels of La Clinica’s Behavioral Standards.
Follow La Clinica’s SERVE standards and they are the following:
- Service: I provide helpful service focused on the needs of others.
- Empathy: I welcome and connect with you on a personal level.
- Relationships: I create partnerships, working a way that benefits everyone.
- Value: I recognize the importance of others and treat everyone with respect.
- Excellence: I go above and beyond to deliver an exceptional experience.
Qualifications:
Must have at least 3-5 years’ experience in a primary role as mental health or behavioral health provider. Must be able to interact with a variety of individuals at various levels under stressful circumstances while exercising sound judgement, tact, and diplomacy; work productively both independently and in a team setting; communicate with clarity, both verbally and in writing to groups of all sizes and levels; possess the confidence and ability to make effective and persuasive presentations on controversial or complex topics to workforce members, leadership, and the governing board.
Education and/or Experience:
Required:
- At least three years of experience in the field
- Degree in Master’s level social work, marriage and family or counseling program
- Must hold a valid license with an Oregon counseling board (LCSW, LPC, LMFT).
- Excellent interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills
- Skills to intervene and promote reconciliation, compromise, and positive outcomes in difficult interactions.
- Skilled at using electronic health records as applicable to area of work (EPIC, Eagle Soft)
Preferred:
- Be eligible to provide clinical supervision for board registered associates in Oregon (PCAs, CSWAs, MFTAs).
- Clinical supervision training to provide ongoing clinical supervision to unlicensed behavioral health clinicians.
- Experience in providing training to workforce members.
- Experience and knowledge of therapeutic interventions across the lifespan
- Basic knowledge of adult learning models