Behavioral Health Specialist: Part-Time

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** Professional Lake Forest, CA, US

Salary Range: $57.00 To $65.00 Hourly

The Behavioral Health Specialist provides behavioral health services to patients of all ages at Camino Health Center. The Behavioral Health Specialist work alongside the health center’s medical teams to provide comprehensive whole person care. The Behavioral Health Specialists provides same day mental health consults, psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, psychotherapy, alcohol and drug screening using the SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment), education/support groups and resource information.

The Behavioral Health Specialist is the link between Camino Health Center, the community, and other local agencies that provide services for this population. Behavioral health services will be provided on site at Camino Health Center and with other community partnerships.

Ensure that the core values of Camino Health Center – dignity, excellence, service and justice are carried out within daily tasks.

Essential Values-Based Competencies
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Demonstrates values-based competencies in line with the four core values that are the foundation of all activities performed by employees in order to achieve the mission of the Camino Health Center.

Dignity:
Demonstrates competence in communication and interpersonal relations

Excellence:
Demonstrates competence in continuous improvement, continuous learning, and teamwork/collaboration

Service:
Demonstrates competence in customer/patient focus, adaptability, and shaping change

Justice:
Demonstrates competence in community orientation, stewardship, and strategic planning and action

Clinical Quality

• Provide high-quality, patient-centered, and values-based primary behavioral health services.
• Uses-strengths-based, wellness, resilience, and recovery models in conceptualizing the behavioral and care.
• Effectively use huddles, and integration work to meet treatment and preventative care measures.
• Provide psycho-education to patients regarding their mental health and/or substance use disorders.
• Advocate for, teach, and support illness and whole health self-management and recovery approaches to health conditions
• Provides timely and clinically indicated referrals to community providers for patients who are experiencing severe and persistent mental illness and/or substance use disorders.
• Appropriate and complete referrals to specialty mental health care and SUD as needed.
• Collaborate with medical, dental, psychiatry, optometry and other healthcare team members as appropriate for integration, consultation, and referral and follow-up.
• Assist Medical Director and Behavioral Health Director in program development, implementation, and evaluation as necessary.
• Active participation in the health center’s quality assurance and peer-review programs.
• Cooperate in investigations, patient grievances, and requests from payers.
• Participates in all aspects of the Behavioral Health Integration services at Camino Health Center; huddles, warm hand offs, provision of resources to patients and staff, and treatment planning.
• Demonstrate cultural awareness and humility. Understanding of culture and its function to human behavior, recognizing the strengths that exist in all cultures.
• Comply with California mandated reporting under the Welfare and Institutions Code sections .70.
• Provide patient care services in the spirit of the health center’s core values. Convey empathic behavior and communication with patients and encourage all members of the care team to do so as well.
• Deliver services to the patients’…