Primary Care Behavioral Health Clinician

The  Behavioral Health Clinician  is a licensed or unlicensed, Master's level clinician working as a member of the primary care medical team who assists the primary care (PCP) and dental teams in managing the overall health of clients working in a primary care setting. Provides consultation to clients and works with PCP to improve recognition, treatment, and management of psychosocial / behavioral problems and conditions for clients.

LifeWorks NW partners with the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Yamhill and Washington Counties that serves a large Medicaid population. They have a special focus on providing care to the migrant farm worker community. A large majority of their patients are monolingual Spanish speaking.

Location : This position is based out of Virginia Garcia's Hillsboro, OR clinic.

This position offers .

$10, annual differential once licensure is obtained.

Additional differential for bilingual Spanish proficiency.

This LifeWorks NW site qualifies for the and / or the .

Essential Responsibilities :

• Provides targeted evidence-based assessments and evaluations, which may include brief neuropsychological screens, diagnostic interviews and impressions and functional status focused on the presenting problem. This can include assessing and justifying a complete DSM mental health diagnosis.
• Provides brief solution focused empirically based interventions to clients experiencing a myriad of bio-psychosocial problems.
• Provides timely and succinct feedback to PCP's or dentists regarding consultation findings and recommendations.
• Available as needed for all medical and dental team members during work hours for consultation and crisis support.
• Develops, teaches and / or provides oversight for classes that promote education and skill-building to enhance psychological and physical health.
• Determines the appropriateness of the patient receiving services in primary care. Provides appropriate resources and support linkage, culturally appropriate advocacy and community collaboration and culturally appropriate client evaluation and treatment.
• Provides brief follow-up, including relapse-prevention education.
• Will carry small caseload of mental health clients for on-going specialty mental health services.
• Works as part of a multi-disciplinary team in making recommendations for clients who abuse, misuse, or divert controlled substances.
• May be responsible for case management. Coordinate / collaborate with physicians, staff, families, caregivers, etc. Maintain chart notes related to external contracts, obtaining pertinent records from other treatment and tracking client's involvement, follow-through and progress in varied treatment activities.
• May be required to act as project lead on programs assisting with metrics specific to population-based health.
• Qualified licensed clinicians may be requested to provide licensure supervision as part of their regular position in compliance with the rules of their licensing board.

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