Behavioral Health Provider; O-Billet) Supervisory

Summary

Supervisory Behavioral Health Provider leads facility behavioral health services for ICE detainees, providing clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, case management, suicide prevention, discharge planning, staff supervision, training, program oversight, and coordination with medical, custody, legal, and HQ stakeholders to support safe, high-quality care.

Supervisory Behavioral Health Provider leads facility behavioral health services for ICE detainees, providing clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, case management, suicide prevention, discharge planning, staff supervision, training, program oversight, and coordination with medical, custody, legal, and HQ stakeholders to support safe, high-quality care.

This position is only open to USPHS officers and Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates.

• Serves as a supervisory behavioral health and substance abuse consultant within the facility.
• Conducts mental health assessment, evaluation, and diagnosis of detained non-citizens (including the utilization of the DSM-V to formulate findings).
• Provides supportive counseling, psychotherapy, substance abuse education, group therapy, etc. utilizing psycho-educational and other evidenced based treatment modalities as appropriate (may be delivered in-person or virtually).
• Utilizes the electronic medical record (EMR) to complete clinical documentation, and to review and process telephone encounters, etc.
• Promotes and facilitates multidisciplinary (interprofessional collaboration) treatment approach to care for detained non-citizens.
• Provides referral, identification, and evaluation for those identified as having a serious mental illness using Mental Health Review form (IHSC-883). Works in conjunction with ICE/OPLA to manage serious mental illness (SMI) caseload.

• Coordinates with CD, Health Service Administrator (HSA), Regional Behavioral Health Consultants (RBHC), Behavioral Health Clinical Consultants (BHCC), and Psychiatric Services Program (PSP) in responding to Civil Rights Civil Liberties (CRCL) findings.
• Collaborates with the CD/or designee in providing behavioral health education and guidance to staff related to the care of Chemically Dependent detained non-citizens.
• Reviews reports (i.e., Executive Dashboard) and communicates regularly with CD, HSA, PSP, and BHU HQ team on trends, issues, challenges, etc. and impacts on behavioral health operations at the facility level (including, but not limited to, Access to Care, Productivity, Suicide Risk management, etc.) and work collaboratively to address the same.
• Participates in review of behavioral health processes and procedures within the facility; serves on the local performance improvement committee; assists in the completion of clinical performance risk identification/improvement process related to behavioral health; and assists in preparation towards National accreditation/compliance.

• Maintains ongoing communication with physicians, PSP Providers, and Advanced Practice Providers (APP) and reports on the detained non-citizen's response to and/or compliance with prescribed medication.
• Facilitates multi-disciplinary treatment (MDT) team meetings using a collaborative approach to plan and implement treatment for detained non-citizens identified with mental health conditions.
• Coordinates with BHU-HQ to facilitate the integration of care at the macro level for the detained non-citizens.
• Provides referral to higher level of care (HLOC) psychiatric treatment facilities for those cases of serious mental illness (SMI)/disorder and related conditions, as clinically indicated.
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