Behavioral Health Care Management Clinician, Senior

Your Role

Reporting to the Manager, Care Management- Behavioral Health, the Behavioral Health Care Management Clinician, Senior helps members with behavioral health needs navigate the health care system for linkages to behavioral health providers, treatment, and programs. The Behavioral Health Care Manager will offer support in assessing members' emotional and psychological well-being and providing resource coordination, crisis intervention, substance abuse, and with any behavioral or mental health referrals. The Behavioral Health Care Management Clinician, Senior will be available to physicians and nurse care managers as a consultant for patients with complex psychosocial needs. The position requires an intensive focus on crisis intervention and counseling, problem-solving and conflict resolution, patient and family management, interdisciplinary collaboration, psychosocial assessments, education, advocacy, and community resource linkages.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Current unrestricted CA License (LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, Registered Nurse (RN), or PsyD by the Board of Behavioral Health Sciences required
• Advanced degree commensurate with field is preferred
• Requires at least five (5) years of prior relevant experience, including three (3) years of experience in behavioral health.
• Certified Case Manager preferred
• Experience conducting thorough psychosocial assessments, developing care plans and providing necessary interventions identified during assessment with complex client populations that may have, among other things, inadequate coping skills, severe emotional disorders, developmental disabilities, mental illnesses, and/or unstable housing
• Considerable knowledge of a wide range of psychosocial challenges and familiarity with behavioral health diagnoses and treatment
• Proficient with computer programs such as Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint