Behavioral Health Consultant; BHC - LCSW​/LMSW​/PLPC​/LPC

Join the OCHC Team

We consider ourselves a “family” of experts who are committed to providing the highest quality care and experiences to everyone within the OCHC Community. As a continuum of care, we specialize in expert medical, dental, optometry, chiropractic & behavioral health at all levels.

Our careers offer an inclusive “family” culture, competitive pay, and an excellent benefits package.

OCHC offers generous benefit packages to both qualifying part-time and full-time employees. For specific details contact our Human Resources Department at .

• Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability Insurance
• 401K Retirement – Employer match begins after 30 days (50% match up to 5%)
• Holiday Pay
• Paid Time Off
• Bereavement Pay
• Health Savings Account
• Dental & Medical with $0 Premium option available
• Employee Scholarship Program
• Voluntary Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account

Location: Urbana, MO

Job :219

# of Openings:1

Works in conjunction with the Director of Behavioral Health and the Clinic Manager to actively and consistently contribute to the clinic operations and communications; fully integrate primary care with mental healthcare; behaves in a manner consistent with the mission and objectives of OCHC and performs duties as requested.

• Must pass annual competencies
• Active professional development
• Satisfactory maintenance of continuing education standards as established by the Division of Professional Registration of Missouri

• Current licensure of one of the following:
  Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Master Social Work, Provisionally Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor
• Family and Friends CPR within 6 months of employment

One-year experience preferred

• Performs screenings/evaluations of individuals for mental health and substance abuse disorders.
• Performs brief interventions for individuals with behavioral health problems.
• Provides behavioral supports to assist individuals in improving health status and managing chronic illnesses as needed.
• Meets regularly with the primary care team to plan care and discuss cases and exchanges appropriate information with team members in an informal curbside manner as part of the daily routine of the clinic.
• Integrates with primary care providers.
• Supports primary care physician/teams in identifying and behaviorally intervening with patients who could benefit from behavioral interventions.
• Participant in front line interventions with first looking to manage behavioral health needs within primary care practice.
• Interventions
• Identifies problem behavior, discusses impact of intervention, and decides what to change.
• Implements specific and goal directed interventions.
• Consistently uses monitoring forms.
• Consistently uses behavioral health ‘prescriptions’.
• Uses multiple interventions simultaneously.
• Provides education to patient and significant others.
• Provides handouts explaining appropriate information.
• Utilizes teach back strategies.
• Tailors education to each specific patient and issue.
• Consistently provides feedback to primary care physician.
• Communicates in a brief, concise, and brief manner.
• Maintains focus on referral question.
• Provides description of action plan.
• A. Provides plan for follow-up care.
• Transitions patients to traditional behavioral health counseling as needed.
• Uses correct visit templates when documenting, differentiates visits between BHC and counseling consistently.
• Dismisses each patient by walking them to the front office communicating with office staff what the patient needs to be scheduled for and if it is a BHC appointment what number that session will be.
• Ensures Medicaid prior authorizations are obtained prior to 5th patient visit.
• Provides comprehensive mental health care to patients per OCHC procedure and policy and collaborative practice agreement/protocol, utilizing supplies and procedures appropriate to ages of the patients serviced including child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patient population for the subsequent duties.
• Obtains and documents all relevant health history.
• Performs mental health examination and documents relevant…