Job Description

Behavioral Health Therapist

 

Job Location: Antioch, CA
Status: Full-Time / Exempt or Part-Time
Pay: $90,000 - 110,000 / Year

 

POSITION SUMMARY

The Lead Behavioral Health Therapist provides screening, consultation, behavioral intervention, referrals, and counseling and therapy to patients within an integrated medical and behavioral health setting. You will make clinical recommendations and refer to appropriate levels of care in a team-based setting. This position requires that you are a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Psychologist, or PsyD in the State of California and have two years of experience providing direct counseling services. This full-time position requires a strong team player and self-starter. In this role, you will provide mental health and substance abuse assessment and treatment of patients at our clinic.

In this role you will promote patients self-management and empower patients/families to achieve maximum levels of wellness and independence. As a Behavioral Health Therapist, you will actively engage in care team huddles, clinical meetings, and quality improvement activities. You will seek opportunities to learn from others, be open to adapting best practices into their work and effectively communicate the areas which they feel uncomfortable or need to improve upon to their supervisors. The Behavioral Health Therapist contributes to the orientation and development of new personnel, as well as mentor peers and promote collaborative teamwork. The Behavioral Health Therapist is committed to the constant pursuit of organizational excellence and improving the health status of the community. The worksite for this position is a FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center).

OUR MISSION & VISION

The Brighter Beginnings mission to “support healthy births and successful development of children by partnering with parents and helping to build strong communities“, gains its strength and aspiration from our core belief and vision that, Every family matters, and every child deserves a happy, healthy future.”

OUR HISTORY

Brighter Beginnings is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and has been responding to the needs of families in underserved communities since 1984 when our work began in response to the alarming differences in mortality and illness rates among African American babies compared to other children.

Brighter Beginnings has grown into a respected and well-connected organization with 6 locations in Oakland, Richmond, Bay Point, Antioch, and Pleasant Hill. We have a multi-cultural, bi-lingual staff of passionate and committed family-service professionals; in fact, many of our staff came to this work because of the challenges they faced in their own families. For more information about Brighter Beginnings check out our website at www.brighter-beginnings.org.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBLITIES

1. Clinical patient care

• Provide assessment, evaluation and mental health treatment
• Provide individual and group therapy to promote overall wellness, in accordance with the treatment plan
• Consult with medical providers on psychosocial issues patients bring to their medical appointments
• Triage both urgent and routine referrals from medical providers
• Collaborate with staff and providers to schedule patients for intake
• Engage in care team huddles in primary care departments
• Formulate client-centered treatment plans for assigned clients
• Undertake case management, advocacy, medication monitoring, emergency services, insurance companies, education referrals and consultation with other agencies as appropriate
• Collaborate with primary care, prescribing physician, emergency services, life skills educations and consult other agencies regarding each client

2. Communication and support

• Prepare case presentations when indicated to the multi-disciplinary team
• Provide feedback to medical providers on patients referred
• Participate in Behavioral Health Department clinical and staff meetings and in other meetings as assigned
• Participate in scheduled supervision sessions with clinical and administrative supervisors

3. Administrative

• Maintain professional licensure
• Comply with all medical record keeping requirements for assigned caseload
• Comply with productivity objectives
• Prepare timely submission of all Electronic Health Record (E.H.R.) records required by the health center (i.e. visit notes, billing paperwork and prior authorizations as examples)
• Schedule work hours and days in accordance with operational needs
• Respond and contribute to data collection and other information gathering activities necessary for programs' evaluation, funding and development

QUALIFICATIONS

• Must be licensed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), LMFT, Psychologist or PsyD with two years of related experience and/or training.
• Bi-lingual in Spanish and English
• Two + years of experience in a mental health/medical/social service setting providing assessment counseling/therapy and crisis intervention services
• Minimum expectations:
• Demonstrated ability to keep accurate and complete charts, client records, required data forms and processes.
• Demonstrated ability to perform additional duties such as facilitating client support groups, individual or group counseling, health education, child development activities and/or training.
• Demonstrated ability to represent the agency in a professional manner with collaborative groups.
• Demonstrated ability to use cultural humility in working with diverse/low income and immigrant communities.
• Multi-tasking, ability to manage multiple clients' needs simultaneously
• Experience with Medi-Cal charting and coding is strongly preferred but not required
• Experience with Electronic Health Records is strongly preferred but not required
• Well versed in mandated reporting laws, child development, family systems, integrated behavioral health systems, stages of change, and co-occurring mental health and substance use/abuse conditions
• This position may supervise behavioral health interns and volunteers.
• Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from clients, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

BENEFITS

• Competitive wages
• Friendly environment
• Two weeks of vacation (increase after 2 years of employment)
• 13 paid holidays
• Sick leave
• Employer-paid health (Employee options that are 100% paid for by employer)
• Dental (Employee benefit 100% paid for by employer)
• Vision (Employee options that are 100% paid for by employer)
• Life and disability insurance (Employee options that are 100% paid for by employer)
• Optional employee-paid dependent health coverage available
• 403b retirement account
• FSA
• Transit Benefit
• EAP
• Loan repayment and scholarship programs (MD, FNP, RN, PsYD, LCSW staff only) through HRSA.
• **We sponsor H1B visa, green card, J1 visa, TN Applicants.

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

Brighter Beginnings requires its employees and contractors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment at Brighter Beginnings, unless approved for a medical or religious accommodation.

APPLY

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Job Types: Part-time, Full-time

Pay: $90,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work setting:

• In-person

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Antioch, CA 94509: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Language:

• Spanish fluently (Required)

License/Certification:

• LCSW, LMFT, or Psychology licensure (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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