Behavioral Health Professional; Elk Ridge; Flagstaff Fourth Street - BH Servic

Introduction

Love where you work as much as you love where you live by joining Elk Ridge Community Health.

The Behavioral Health Professional (BHP) (Elk Ridge) provides a range of services inclusive of primary care behavioral health, crisis management, mental health assessment, counseling services, and coordination of care to patients as part of the integrated health team at an Elk Ridge Community Health location assigned by management. In this role, the BHP coordinates behavioral health care with the primary care medical and behavioral health teams and promotes ongoing collaboration and cohesiveness between those teams to ensure delivery of whole health care to patients.

BHPs facilitate seamless, unduplicated services with various departments within clinic settings related to primary care and behavioral health specialty care services. BHPs deliver a range of interventions consistent and appropriate to the clinic setting, model of care, and role assigned. Interventions may include brief health behavior focused primary care population-based consultations to psychotherapeutic approaches supportive of behavioral health specialty care.

Depending upon the skills and qualifications of the BHP and the needs of the organization, additional services may include the clinical supervision of non-independently licensed providers toward independent licensure.

The primary goal of the Elk Ridge Community Health Behavioral  Health Professional (BHP) (Elk Ridge) is to support Elk Ridge's Mission of providing comprehensive, quality health care that is affordable and accessible to all who may have healthcare needs, by successfully performing the primary essential functions.

The following functions and responsibilities will contribute toElk Ridge Community Healthto achieve its KEY RESULTS:

• World Class Experience for staff and patients
• Healthier patients and employees
• Positive Financial Result

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Duties and Responsibilities:

• In support of the Mission and Vision ofElk Ridge Community Health, willat all times represent themselves as a professional role model ofElk Ridge Community Health serving as a positive informational source for members of the community.
• Supports Elk Ridge Community Healthby participating in community events which promote good health, and which contribute to a broader awareness and understanding ofElk Ridge Community Healthand the many services provided to the community.
• Participates in all appropriate health care activities related toElk Ridge Community Healthon a local, state, and national level to maintain and enhance
  
  Elk Ridge's image with health agencies, professional associations, and the general public.
• Ensures and supports the cost-effective use of materials, supplies, and equipment by limiting waste of all organizational supplies and resources.
• In accordance with policies and procedures, ensures that documentation of hours worked is completed accurately, as well assigned-off/approved in a timely manner.
• Employees must maintain their skills proficiency with
  
  Elk Ridge Community Health operating systems and/or software programs by adapting to changing requirements and successfully learning and demonstrating new skills in response to software, system, and program improvements or upgrades.
• Implements specialized and/or behavioral health operational policies and procedures across departments through staff training regarding patient referrals, warm handoffs, EMR referral documentation, patient screenings, and community referrals to specialized mental health providers.
• Develops staff educational materials to increase awareness of integrated behavioral services, scope of care, and how each department coordinates their respective role and function in supporting the integrated model.
• Provides on-site,day to day guidance and role clarification with various departments as needed to improve coordination of integrated services.
• Maintains exceptional level of customer service; address and resolve complaints;serveas an example by providing excellent service to internal and external customers, employees and patients.
• Assists as needed, in orienting new BHP staff to the care model specific to the clinic setting and assigned role appropriate to primary care BH consultation and/or specialty care BH models and services.
  
  Introduce new medical staff to both models as part of their employee orientation at Elk Ridgeand as directed.

• Provides focused quality clinical services as appropriate to model of care, clinic setting, and patient's…