Behavioral Health Care Manager

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE MANAGER

ABOUT THE BROOKLINE CENTER

The Brookline Center has been known throughout its history for ground-breaking, high quality, accessible mental health care.

In response to today’s mental health landscape, the Center is re-imagining its core work as the transform of mental health care through the design, development and dissemination of mental health programs and services at the intersection of systems.

While our outpatient clinic cares primarily for children and adults in Brookline and neighboring communities, much of the Center’s work extends beyond Brookline and has a statewide, regional, and national impact.

To support and fuel the Brookline Center’s growth and evolution, we are expanding our teams. If you are interested in shaping the future of mental health and ensuring that care is effective and equitable for all, we would love to meet you.

Learn more about our work and impact at

POSITION SUMMARY

The Brookline Center for Community Mental Health is seeking a behavioral health care manager to provide care coordination services to children and adolescents at partnering pediatric and family practice clinics.

This will be a hybrid position with the care manager providing some hours on-site at the medical practice and some remote.

The behavioral health care manager is a core member of the collaborative care team, including the medical provider, psychiatric consultant, and others.

This is a unique opportunity to work with an integrated team to increase access and optimize mental health outcomes for children, adolescents, and families in the greater Boston area.

We are actively interested in ensuring that the Brookline Center for Community Mental Health represents a range of experiences and backgrounds.

Qualified candidates with diverse racial, cultural, multilingual, religious, class, and / or gender background and experiences are strongly encouraged to apply.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES (include but are not limited to the following) :

• Support the mental health care of children and adolescents on an assigned caseload. Closely coordinate with the medical and other mental health providers.
• Utilize the Mirah software program to screen and assess children and adolescents for common mental health and substance abuse disorders and available treatment options.
• Provide psychoeducation about common mental health and substance abuse disorders and the available treatment options.
• Systematically track treatment response and monitor children and adolescents for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.
• Facilitate referrals to evidence-based, brief, behavioral interventions.
• Coordinate regularly scheduled (usually weekly) caseload consultation with psychiatric consultant and medical team.
• Track engagement and clinical outcomes using a registry. Document encounters in the registry and use the system to identify and re-engage children and adolescents.
• Document progress and treatment recommendations in the electronic health record (EHR) and other required systems to be shared with medical providers, consulting psychiatrist, and other treating providers.
• Facilitate inclusion of families, schools, and other systems, in treatment planning to use a whole child lens when determining goals and assessing clinical outcomes.
• Identify community resources and assist in developing and updating resources for patients and families.
• Assist with grant writing, reporting, and program development as needed.
• Participate in teams, committees and / or task forces as appropriate.
• Support other innovation programming as needed.

REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrate commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment.
• Comfort level working with children, adolescents and families required.
• Experience in a social service, medical, or mental health setting preferred. Familiarity with health care organizations preferred.
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a related field OR commensurate work or lived experience.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and clinical writing skills.
• Bilingual candidates or fluency in the following languages highly desired : Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin and / or Cantonese, Russian
• The proven ability to work closely with an integrated team.

HOURS / BENEFITS / REIMBURSEMENT

This is a full-time non-exempt salary position. The Brookline Center offers a supportive, mission-focused work environment;

professional growth opportunities; competitive salaries; and a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision insurance, pre-tax savings and retirement plans, disability and life insurance, and generous paid time off.

Additional compensation will be provided for care managers providing multilingual services with preference for Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Mandarin and / or Cantonese, Russian

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Brookline Center is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status .

Please submit your resume along with a thoughtful cover letter outlining your interest and qualifications.