Integrated Behavioral Health Professional

About Us
At Clinica Family Health & Wellness, we believe everyone deserves high-quality, compassionate healthcare close to home. We are a nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that provides comprehensive, affordable medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, and specialty behavioral care services. We are committed to being a healthcare home for our patients, a place where they receive coordinated, whole-person care from a team that supports their health and well-being at every stage of life.

Overview of the Role
We are seeking new team members to join us in our mission to provide high quality care and services to our Adams, Boulder, and Gilpin counties to help patients receive the behavioral support necessary to positively impact their overall health. This is an in-person position.

• →Provides brief intervention and consultation in real time to patients
• →Responsible for the assessment, treatment planning and episodes of brief, goal focused therapy for established Clinica patients.
• →Actively participates and utilizes supervision feedback to improve patient care.
• →Responsible for crisis intervention counseling as referred by providers. 
• →Responsible for resolving conflicts in a professional manner and is a model for strong interpersonal communication skills with all staff.
• →Strives to achieve the target number of patient encounters and satisfies minimum documentation requirements for all services rendered.
• →Responsible for follow-up of high-risk patients, especially patients with depression as indicated by the depression registry’s targeted outcome measures.
• →Functions as a group visit team health educator, specifically for patients with chronic pain, depression and anxiety.
• →Coordinates care for complex patients with co-morbid mental and physical health conditions.
• →Demonstrates knowledge of annual universal depression and substance abuse screenings and effectively provides necessary follow up services.
• →Acts as a consultant and resource to members of the care team on skillful and effective interventions with patients with chronic illnesses and mental health diagnoses.
• →Assists with staff training as needed.
• →Provides on-site training for mandatory reporting procedures.
• →Assists with implementation of an effective Quality Improvement Program.

1. Relevant Master's Degree required.
2. Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), PhD, PsyD, required. 
3. Experience with short term, strategic, goal-oriented therapy skills (SFBT) in a CHC or other health care setting.
4. Familiarity with current DSM and ICD Diagnosis Codes
5. Sensitivity to low income, ethnic minority community.
6. Bilingual in English and Spanish, required