Behavioral Health Care Management Clinician, Consultant (Lead)

Your Role

Reporting to the Manager, Care Management- Behavioral Health, the Behavioral Health Care Management Clinician, Consultant (Lead) is a team lead for a team of Behavioral Health Care Managers. The Behavioral Health Care Management Team helps members with behavioral health needs navigate the health care system for linkages to behavioral health providers, treatment, and programs. The Behavioral Health Care Managers offer support in assessing members' emotional and psychological well-being and providing resource coordination, crisis intervention, substance abuse, and with any behavioral or mental health referrals. The Behavioral Health Care Managers will be available to physicians and nurse care managers as consultants for patients with complex psychosocial needs. The position requires an intensive focus on crisis intervention and counseling, problem-solving and conflict resolution, patient and family management, interdisciplinary collaboration, psychosocial assessments, education, advocacy, and community resource linkages.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Current unrestricted CA license (LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, PhD/PsyD or RN with Behavioral Health experience) required
• Advanced degree commensurate with field is preferred
• Requires at least seven (7) years of prior relevant experience including 3 years of experience in behavioral health.
• Certified Case Manager preferred
• Previous experience in a lead or leadership role or demonstrated mastery of case management principles through hands on experience with successful outcomes.
• Possess excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills, positive attitude, and high level of initiative
• Ability to identify problems and work towards problem resolution independently, seeking guidance as needed
• Experience conducting thorough psychosocial assessments, developing care plans and providing necessary interventions identified during assessment with complex client populations that may have, among other things, inadequate coping skills, severe emotional disorders, developmental disabilities, mental illnesses, and/or unstable housing
• Considerable knowledge of a wide range of psychosocial challenges and familiarity with behavioral health diagnoses and treatment
• Proficient with computer programs such as Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint