Behavioral Health Professional - Cherrybell - BH Services Therapist

Behavioral Health Professional - Cherrybell - BH Services Therapist

Cherrybell Health Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Posted Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Salary: $30.50 - $44.17 Depending on experience

Schedule:

Monday - Friday or Tuesday - Saturday

JOB PURPOSE: The Behavioral Health Professional (BHP) provides a range of services inclusive of primary care behavioral health, crisis management, mental health assessment, counseling services, and coordination of care to patients as part of the integrated health team at an El Rio Health location assigned by management. In this role the BHP coordinates behavioral health care with the primary care medical and behavioral health teams and promotes ongoing collaboration and cohesiveness between those teams to ensure delivery of whole health care to patients.

BHPs facilitate seamless, unduplicated services with various departments within clinic settings related to primary care and behavioral health specialty care services. BHPs deliver a range of interventions consistent and appropriate to the clinic setting, model of care, and role assigned. Interventions may include brief health behavior focused primary care population-based consultations to psychotherapeutic approaches supportive of behavioral health specialty care.

Depending upon the skills and qualifications of the BHP and the needs of the organization, additional services may include the clinical supervision of non-independently licensed providers toward independent licensure.

The primary goal of the El Rio Health Behavioral Health Professional (BHP) is to support El Rio’s Mission of providing comprehensive, quality health care that is affordable and accessible to all who may have healthcare needs, by successfully performing the primary essential functions.

The following functions and responsibilities will contribute to El Rio Health to achieve its KEY RESULTS:

• World Class Experience for staff and patients
• Healthier patients and employees

Essential Job Functions:

• Provides focused quality clinical services as appropriate to model of care, clinic setting, and patient’s presenting health and behavioral concerns. Range of services may include consultation, health behavior assessment and intervention, psychotherapy, and coordination of care related to life stressors, acute and/or chronic medical health conditions, acute and/or severe mental health conditions, substance use problems, motivational barriers to healthy lifestyle, and/or other identifiable behavioral health concerns, while making appropriate recommendations to medical providers, patients, and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Utilizes a variety of intervention and psychotherapeutic approaches with active development of behavioral change planning that can improve psychosocial functioning and impact patient’s bio‑medical health outcomes. Interventions may include but are not limited to Motivational Interviewing, Solution focused therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, and acceptance strategies, psycho‑education, Art therapy, Trauma informed, and other therapeutic approaches applied within the primary care behavioral health and specialty care settings.
• Assesses patient’s mental/behavioral health related conditions utilizing DSM, PHQ-9, and other relevant screening tools and diagnostics for the purposes of consultation and treatment planning where and when appropriate to the model of care.
• Cultivates education and self‑management skills to targeted populations with comorbid medical and mental health conditions, chronic medical disease, behavioral health concerns, and other health related conditions that impact biopsychosocial health and functioning.
• Promotes smooth interface between medicine and behavioral health care throughout the organization through collaborative relationship building, efficiency with patient flow and “warm hand‑offs ”, accessibility to medical providers, brief consultations with providers and staff, and adherence to scope of practice limitations given the population‑based approach while providing expeditious feedback to referring medical providers.
• Provides on‑site crisis…