Behavioral Health Care Manager (Remote) - Psychiatry

Location

Remote, US

 Scheduled Hours

40

Position Summary

The Behavioral Health Care manager serves as a core member of our pediatric collaborative care team, working together with one primary care pediatric practice and a psychiatric consultant to assess pediatric patients' mental health needs, provide brief therapeutic interventions, and coordinate the mental health care of patients on an assigned caseload.

Job Description

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

Supports the mental health care of patients on an assigned patient caseload. Closely coordinates care with the patient’s medical provider and consulting psychiatrist or other mental health providers.

Experience working with pediatric population in a clinical setting, including conducting mental health assessments, and experience providing evidence based psychotherapeutic interventions.

Screens and assesses patients for common mental health disorders. Provides patient education about common mental health disorders and the available treatment options. Facilitates patient engagement and follow-up care.

Systematically tracks treatment response via standardized measures in a registry and monitors patients (in person or via telephone/audio-visual encounter) for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.

Supports psychotropic medication management as prescribed by medical providers, focusing on treatment adherence monitoring, side effects, and effectiveness of treatment.

Provides brief psychotherapeutic/behavioral interventions using evidence-based psychosocial treatments, as clinically indicated.

Provides or facilitates in-clinic or outside referrals to evidence-based psychotherapy, as clinically indicated.

Participates in regularly scheduled caseload consultation with the psychiatric consultant and follows up on resulting treatment recommendations with the patient’s medical provider.

Documents patient progress and treatment recommendations in EHR so as to be shared with medical providers, psychiatric consultant, and other treating providers.

Facilitates referrals for clinically indicated services in the community and liaison with patient’s other community supports.

Attends required certification trainings as required by licensure and program needs.

Working Conditions:

Job Location/Working Conditions

Normal office environment.

Patient care setting.

Direct patient care setting.

Physical Effort

Typically sitting at desk or table.

Repetitive wrist, hand or finger movement.

Occasional lifting (25 lbs. or less).

Equipment

Office equipment.

Clinical/diagnostic equipment.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by the personnel so classified. Management reserves the right to revise or amend duties at any time.