CA Licensed Psychiatric Consultant, CoCM

CA Licensed Psychiatric Consultant, CoCM Who We Are

Concert Health is the leading national behavioral health medical group committed to integrating the Collaborative Care model into existing health care practices to improve patients’ lives. We believe everyone, regardless of location or insurance, should have easy access to personalized, high-quality behavioral health support that is guided by the provider they trust.

Our Collaborative Care program effectively targets and treats most behavioral health conditions, while embracing behavioral health as central to the patient's care journey and overall health. With its clinical excellence and operational efficiency, Concert Health is the preferred partner for health systems and medical groups seeking to deliver integrated behavioral health care that is both scalable and sustainable.

Reporting to the National Medical Director, the Psychiatric Consultant supports the collaborative care team—primary care provider, patient, and Behavioral Health Care Manager—through Structured Case Review (SCR) on an assigned caseload of patients. The psychiatric consultant advises the primary care provider on appropriate medications and other treatment strategies, also providing the care team with educational support on diagnosing and managing behavioral health conditions.

Concert’s Psychiatric Consultants also collaborate closely with clinical leadership at multiple major health west coast health systems to train, support and delight their primary teams (PCPs, Pediatricians, OBGYN, & more) via in-service training for primary care-based providers and staff regarding recognition and treatment of behavioral health conditions in primary care.

• Provide Structured Care Review (SCR) to primary care providers through systematic case review with a panel of Behavioral Health Care Manager (average of 32 PC review hours per week and 6 to 10 patient reviews per hour). Focus primarily on high-risk patients, patients new to treatment, or those not improving
• Work with Behavioral Health Care Manager to oversee the status and population health of their assigned patient caseload. The Psychiatric Consultant uses Concert’s purpose built registry to track all assigned patients and prioritize patients for case review and treatment adjustments
• Recommend any treatment adjustments, including specific medication and lab/imaging/study order recommendations, directly in the primary care provider’s EHR
• Educate primary care providers and Behavioral Health Care Manager about treatment options, supporting both of their professional development and improving patient care at scale
• Advise on treatment for patients who may need more intensive or more specialized mental health care, supporting treatment in the medical setting until patients can be engaged in specialized care as appropriate (treat to transition)
• Be available to provide occasional ad hoc telephone consultation to primary care providers for very complex patients or challenging patient situations. Respond to telephone calls from primary care providers and Behavioral Health Care Manager within one business day. Aim to respond to urgent telephone calls within one hour
• Enjoy and thrive in supporting busy primary care providers to better identify and treat common mental health disorders through systemic, measurement-based care
• Can quickly synthesize psychiatric and general medical history, presentation, and patient data; then formulate effective and evidence-based clinical recommendations
• Proficiency in evidence-based pharmacological treatment approaches to common psychiatric disorders, with demonstrated experience in navigating complex comorbid general medical conditions when choosing an appropriate medication regimen
• Current with evidence based suicide care and related tools and treatments with general safety assessment and planning approaches using standardized assessment tools and interventions (e.g. C-SSRS and Stanley Brown)
• Comfort incorporating evidence-based treatment frameworks and approaches (e.g., Problem-Solving Treatment, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Skills, Dialectic…