Behavioral Health Counselor (51786)

Position Summary

Behavioral health counselors are core members of the Sanitas medical team and provide hope, empowerment, and psychoeducation in order to promote autonomy and self-management by arranging comprehensive mental health care services in a primary care setting.

Essential Job Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Complete and maintain all documentation in a timely and accurate manner according to all federal, state and center guidelines
• Collaborate with a variety of health professionals in the patients circle of care including but not limited to primary care providers, care nurses, care coordinators, community health workers, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals and specialists to ensure a comprehensive continuity of care.
• Develop and implement care plans.
• Guide patients in the development of skills and strategies for dealing with their diagnosis.
• Provide individual, family or group educational interventions, to assist patients in adjusting to life and making changes.
• Resolve emergency problems in crisis situations.
• Track treatment response and monitor patients for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.
• Participate in regularly scheduled weekly caseload consultation and complex case review meetings.
• Facilitate care plan adjusts for patients who are not improving as expected in consultation with the medical providers.
• Facilitate referrals to the appropriate provider or in-house intervention program as clinically indicated.
• Connect patients and family members with community and social resources.
• Guide clinical staff on how to manage common behavioral health situations.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work standing up, walk, use hands to operate tools and equipment and must be able to exert regularly up to 10 pounds of force, frequently exert 30 pounds of force and occasionally exert 50 pounds of force to constantly perform the essential job functions.

The employee will be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, bend, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, and pull.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

The employee is subject to environmental conditions; protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.

The worker is subject to noise; there may be sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.

Required Education and Experience

• Relevant experience 1 year
• Masters degree in counseling or related field
• BLS certification
• Ability to travel in assigned region
• Bilingual Spanish and English preferred.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Relevant or any other job-related vocational coursework.
• License by a state board to provide counseling.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of the company.

Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholders responsibility.