Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health
Location
Manchester, New Hampshire
The Behavioral Health Clinician provides short-term counseling and psychotherapy as part of an interdisciplinary primary care team using the Collaborative Care Model. They are responsible for patient triage, care coordination, and managing a patient registry to track progress and program metrics.
Candidates must hold a Master’s degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage & Family Therapy, or Addiction Counseling. Applicants must be licensed or license-eligible as an LICSW, LCMHC, LMFT, or MLADC in the State of New Hampshire.
1. As a licensed independent mental health clinician works with the Pediatric Primary Care team to address the behavioral health needs of pediatric patients in primary care utilizing the Collaborative Care model of integrated care, which includes consults, short-term counseling, care coordination, outreach and data collection.2. Partners with PCP teams to systematically screen and assess for common pediatric behavioral health conditions including depression, anxiety, disruptive behavior/ADHD, and substance misuse. Conduct triage visits and/or initial evaluations to help clarify behavioral health concerns and develop an individualized, appropriate care plan.3. Enrolls patients referred by the PCP into the collaborative care program, which includes both in person and telephone outreach visits for a short-term episode of care, up to 12 weeks duration.4. Utilizes evidence-based clinical procedures to deliver care in a standardized format and measure patient’s symptoms and response to treatment through questionnaires and survey tools.5. Effectively maintains and manages a patient registry to track patients, monitor progress and report program focused metrics.6. Provides limited face-to-face, short-term counseling including; problem-solving therapy, brief CBT, motivational interviewing, or brief supportive therapy and parent management training.7. Proactively communicates with patients, parents/guardians, primary care team members and the consulting psychiatrist to aid in effective, patient-centered, team-based care.8. Assists patients in need of higher levels or care, specialty mental health or substance use services, outside of primary care, to connect with appropriate treatment resources.9. Performs other duties as required or assigned.10. Supports the department’s educational and workforce development mission by providing supervision and learning opportunities for trainees in mental health fields. This may include supervising student internships and/or providing clinical supervision toward licensure for master’s prepared clinicians.
Master’s degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage & Family Counseling/Therapy, or Addiction Counseling from an accredited institution of higher education, including an internship meeting professional standards. Must be able to demonstrate that he or she has provided psychological services, on an inpatient, outpatient or consultative basis in the past 12 months Required Licensure/Certifications Licensed or license-eligible as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), or Master Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor (MLADC) in the State of NH.
Medical Assistant II - Staffing Resource Team, Ambulatory, Part-time
Medical Assistant II (MA) - Primary Care
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Urology
Counselor I
Clinical Laboratory Scientist III - Laboratory
Mammography Technologist - Radiology-Diagnostic
Dss - Direct support professional(Day)
Dss - Community support specialist
Client Specific DSP (FDS) (MM)
Client Specific DSP (JM)
Client Specific DSP(LP)
Radiologic Technologist (Rad Tech) - Urgent Care