The Primary Care Integrated Behavioral Health Consultant (BHC) will work at the UNC Family Medicine Center and will provide comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of behavioral health clients with effective treatment planning and assisting clients in successfully achieving goals. The BHC will evaluate crisis situations and apply appropriate interventions, actively participate in meetings that support UNC Family Medicine’s integrated health care goal to provide comprehensive care for clients. The BHC will assist in the detection of at-risk patients and development of plans to prevent further psychological or physical deterioration assist the primary care team in developing care management processes such as the use of guidelines, disease management techniques, case management, and patient education to improve self-management of chronic disease and provide assessment, consultation, and brief intervention for psychological/ psychiatric problems and/or disorders.
This position operates as a behavioral health consultant (BHC) on the medical team utilizing the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model of care. Acting as a generalist, the BHC sees patients of all ages and with wide ranging medical, behavioral health and behaviorally influenced conditions. As a fully integrated member of the primary care team, the BHC provides episodic behavioral health services and interventions to a high volume of patients.
The BHC’s additional responsibilities will include teaching residents, faculty, patients, families, and staff care, prevention, and treatment enhancement techniques, monitor behavioral health program outcomes, identifying problems related to patient services and making recommendations for improvement, participate in development and administration of data and measures to assess multiple outcomes, to include patient and provider satisfaction, institutional and provider fidelity to the model, patient health outcomes, etc.
This is a partially grant-funded position. The BHC will be a primary member of the grant team and serve as a teacher to resident physicians who will work alongside the BHC during their clinical rotations within the Patient Center Behavioral Health (PCBH) model of integrated care. The BHC will serve as a subject matter expert for medical practitioners and provide real-time education and feedback for Family Medicine residents on their screening, assessment and treatment skills. The BHC will support Family Medicine residents and faculty in building referral and interprofessional care skills, as well as independence around screening, assessment, and treatment of mental health issues.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements
Relevant post-Baccalaureate degree required (or foreign degree equivalent); for candidates demonstrating comparable independent research productivity or professional-level background in sponsored research administration, will accept a relevant Bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) and 3 or more years of relevant experience in substitution.
Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
* Master’s level licensed mental health professional with active North Carolina license or license eligible: PsyD/PhD/LCSW/LPC.
* Excellent working knowledge of PCBH and/or integrated behavioral health and evidence-based treatments for medical and mental health conditions.
* Ability to work through brief patient contacts as well as to make quick and accurate clinical assessments of mental and behavioral conditions.
* Prior experience or strong interest in pursuing training in primary care behavioral health.
* Experience with psychiatric crisis management and safety assessments.
* Desire and ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Strong communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
* Master’s Degree in Social Work.
* Licensed clinical social worker (LCSW).
* Experience working in an integrated primary care work environment.
* Experience using Electronic Medical Records – Epic preferred.
* Experience with chronic disease.
* Experience working across the lifespan/all ages.
* Knowledge of program development & assessment.
* Interest in training family physician residents and other mental health learners.
