Senior Clinical Lead – Mental Health Integration

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Reports To
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Project Director

Employee Status
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Full-Time or Part-Time, Exempt (Applicants will indicate their preference in the application.)

Office

Location:

We strongly prefer candidates who are able to work out of our New York City office location (505 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018). We have a hybrid schedule of working 2 days in the office and 3 days remote. We are also open to candidates based elsewhere in the United States.

GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES:

CAI is seeking a Senior Clinical Lead – Mental Health Integration to provide clinical vision and leadership for our National Technical Assistance Center's work to improve access to, quality of, and outcomes associated with the integration of mental health services into primary care at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and FQHC Look-Alikes. This individual will lead the design and advancement of CAI's mental health integration strategy nationally, drawing on direct, hands-on experience leading integration efforts in a health center setting and working with a multidisciplinary team to translate that experience into models, tools, and guidance that other health centers can adopt.

The Senior Clinical Lead will also inform the development of technical assistance (TA) materials and tools and deliver group- and individual-level TA as one mechanism for advancing this work.

MAJOR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES (may include, but are not limited to):

• Serve as CAI's senior clinical leader and national subject-matter expert on the integration of mental health services into primary care, setting the vision, strategy, and priorities for this body of work across the Technical Assistance Center.
• Lead efforts to improve access to, quality of, and outcomes associated with mental health integration at FQHCs and Look-Alikes, drawing on personal, direct experience leading successful integration initiatives – with demonstrated outcome improvements – in a health center setting.
• Define and advance evidence-based and promising-practice models for mental health integration (e.g., collaborative/integrated care models, stepped care, warm hand-off protocols) appropriate for primary care and health center settings.
• Provide clinical guidance to CAI leadership and project teams on strategy, quality standards, and emerging issues related to mental health integration, chronic disease, preventive services, and maternal health.
• Lead the development of TA materials and tools that operationalize CAI's mental health integration strategy (e.g., implementation playbooks, curricula, screening and workflow guidance, eLearning modules, factsheets, infographics), working with content, evaluation, communications, and materials development staff.
• Deliver group- and one-on-one TA to health center staff and leadership as a mechanism for translating strategy and tools into practice, and identify, prepare, and support other CAI staff and consultants to deliver TA as needed.
• Partner with evaluation and project staff to define outcome measures, evaluate the effectiveness of mental health integration TA and tools, and drive continuous improvement based on findings.
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with TA recipient staff and leadership, partner agencies, funders, and other stakeholders.
• Represent CAI's mental health integration work in internal meetings and in meetings with funders and external partners, as required.
• Report on strategy, TA planning, implementation progress, and key findings to project teams, partner agencies, and…