Job description

Building Name: UVMMC - 1 South Prospect Street

Location Address: 1 South Prospect, Burlington Vermont

Regular

Department: Medical Group Operations

Full Time

Standard Hours: 40

Shift: Day

Primary Shift: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Weekend Needs: None

Salary Range: Min/Hour $33.06 Mid/Hour $41.32 Max/Hour $49.58

Recruiter: Melissa Cummings

Job Summary: The Behavioral Health Care Manager (BHCM) is a core member of the PCMHI collaborative care team, including the patient’s medical provider, psychologist, and psychiatric consultant, as well as the larger primary care team. The Behavioral Health Care Manager is responsible for supporting and coordinating the mental and physical health care of patients on an assigned caseload with the patient’s medical provider and, when appropriate, other mental health providers.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Support the mental and physical health care of patients on an assigned patient caseload. Closely coordinate care with patient’s medical provider and, when appropriate, other mental health providers.

2. Screen and assess patients for common mental health and substance use disorders. Facilitate patient engagement and follow up care.

3. Provide patient education about common mental health and substance abuse disorders and the available treatment option.

4. Systematically track treatment response and monitor patients (in person or by telephone) for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.

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

6. Provide brief behavioral interventions using evidence-based techniques such as behavioral activation, problem solving treatment, motivational interviewing, or other treatments as appropriate.

7. Provide or facilitate in-clinic or outside referrals to evidence-based psychotherapeutic treatments as clinically indicated.

8. Participate in regularly scheduled (usually weekly) caseload consultation with the PCMHI team and communicate resulting treatment recommendations to the patient’s medical provider. Consultations will focus on patients new to the caseload and those who are not improving as expected under the current treatment plan. Case reviews may be conducted by telephone, video, or in person.

9. Track patient follow up and clinical outcomes using an Epic-based registry. Using the EHR, document in-person and telephone encounters and use the system to identify and re-engage patients.

10. Document patient progress and treatment recommendations in the EHR so as to be shared with medical providers and other treating providers.

11. Facilitate treatment plan changes for patients who are not improving as expected in consultation with the medical provider and PCMHI team, and who may need more intensive or more specialized mental health care.

12. Facilitate referrals for clinically indicated services inside the primary care medical home or outside the organization (eg. mental health specialty care, substance use disorder treatment).

13. Develop and complete relapse prevention self-management plan with patients who have achieved their treatment goals and are soon to be discharged from the caseload.

• The Psychiatry Services Department at UVMMC is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity, equity, and inclusion of the department and greater institution. Applicants are encouraged to include information in their cover letter about how they will further this goal.

EDUCATION:
Applicant must have a necessary education (Master’s degree minimum in Social Work). Applicant must hold current State of Vermont, Social Work License. A valid LICSW license is required to apply for this position. Training or certification may be required in a specific area: Case Management, Group Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or Substance Use Treatment.

EXPERIENCE:
At least 3 years direct clinical experience post licensure in an acute or sub-acute mental health setting. A minimum 3 years direct experience post licensure providing individual, family and group psychotherapy

Training in acute crisis intervention

Training in suicide risk assessment and symptom reduction

Experience with co-occurring disorders (including substance use disorder and medical complications) and multi-axial diagnostic presentations

Familiarity with psychotropic medications and their role in treatment

Strong interpersonal and communication skills are necessary

Strongly Preferred:
Training and experience in CBT/DBT approaches to acute mental health symptom reduction or alleviation.

Experience with addictive disorders and populations

Experience working with a multidisciplinary team

Additional clinical certifications and skills in specific clinical specialties are welcomed.

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