Non Licensed Behavioral Health Provider Addiction Medicine Clinic

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This position is intended for Behavioral Health professions who have completed their master’s degree and are working toward their licensure, which requires up to two years to complete.

The Behavioral Health Provider within the Addiction Medicine Clinic works collaboratively with providers and other members of the health care team to improve the mental health of patients with addiction and co-occurring disorders. The position provides individual, family, and group therapy services by utilizing a variety therapeutic approaches, including motivational interviewing. The Behavioral Health Provider facilitates therapy services by conducting assessment, providing recommendations for treatment, creating service plans, coordinating services, addressing barriers to care, and by promoting recovery.

In collaboration with the Medical Director, Nurse Practitioner and other clinical professionals, this position is responsible for behavioral health assessment and intervention, resource connection, addressing barriers to care and treatment, treatment adherence and monitoring among others. The essential job functions include:

• Communicating / collaborating with medical, interdisciplinary team staff, patient / family, insurance companies, social agencies
• Providing brief behavioral health support to persons living with addiction
• Documenting patients’ progress and response to treatment in a timely manner
• Connecting patients with community resources for biopsychosocial, financial, and other needs
• Planning and developing group and individual treatments as a member of a multidisciplinary team
• Ensuring the follow-through of treatment goals concerning individual group therapy
• Participating in patient care conferences as appropriate
• Monitoring adherence to medical and behavioral health treatment
• Implementing group, individual and family treatments ensuring a safe, comfortable therapeutic environment
• Assessing coping mechanisms and current functioning in following areas: life skills, social skills identity, interpersonal, family and group dynamics
• Providing brief intervention using motivational interviewing techniques to individuals with identified needs who are living with chronic illnesses.
• Providing timely documentation of all services within the clinic’s electronic medical record

Minimum Qualifications

• Prior relevant work experience
• Master's degree in a related field
• Working toward a professional license to practice in Colorado or ability to obtain, as a LAC, LMFT, LPC, or LCSW, within two years of hire

Preferred Qualifications

• Certificate/Training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Licensed Addiction Counselor
• Certificate/Training in Substance Use Disorders
• Certificate/Training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
• (Candidates or incumbents could be obtaining these credentials while working on licensure, and are encouraged to apply without the license):
• Three years of relevant work experience
• Certificate/Training in Motivational interviewing
• Certificate/Training in Principles of Addiction Treatment (directly from CAT course to obtain LAC)
• Certificate/Training in Trauma Informed
• Certificate/Training in Pharmacology I and II (directly from CAT Courses to obtain LAC)

Physical Requirements:

Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies. Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations. Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc. Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items. Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.). May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.

Location:

St Marys Medical Center

Work City:

Grand Junction

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$23.81 - $40.93

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