BHH Specialist: Behavioral Health

BHH Specialist:
Behavioral Health Home - 6317

Job Category: Direct Care

Requisition Number: BHHSP
006317

Posted: December 11, 2025

Employment Type: Full‑Time, 40 hours/week

Hours: Monday‑Friday 8:00‑4:30 PM or 8:30‑5:00 PM

Location: Behavioral Health Home (BHH), Willimantic Main, 1310 Main Street, Willimantic, CT 06226, USA

PC#: 1709

Sign‑on Bonus: Offered!

Behavioral Health Home is a highly impactful, integrated care model serving clients with chronic physical and mental health needs. As Connecticut’s largest BHH, we coordinate care across systems, ensuring clients receive comprehensive support for both body and mind.

Make a real impact by helping adults with complex medical and mental health needs thrive through integrated care that focuses on treating the whole person.

Join a passionate team where every connection you make transforms lives—and your career.

• Whole‑Person Care Focus: Mental health, chronic physical conditions, nutrition, fitness, and wellness groups led by health coaches and personal trainers.
• Professional Growth: Excellent learning opportunity; ideal launching pad into a long‑term career in integrated care.
• Supportive Environment: Staff find the work meaningful and enjoy the chance to build long‑term relationships with their clients.
• Flexible Work Style: Remote day potential and collaborative, learning‑oriented atmosphere. Utilize a company vehicle to visit clients in the community or take advantage of our mileage reimbursement program.
• Unique
  
  Experience:
  
  Work with diverse populations while gaining exposure to one of Connecticut’s leading BHH models.

• BHH specialists provide care coordination, health promotion, patient and family support, referral to community support services.
• Collaborate with BHH Primary nurse care and other team members to improve medical and behavioral health care coordination and outcomes for enrollees.
• Work to reduce health care disparities whenever possible.
• Demonstrate competency in age‑related or specialty issues and developmental needs for each population served.
• Assist in obtaining access to medical and wellness services including tobacco cessation intervention services, benefits, housing, treatment, legal services, medical services, education, and employment.
• Assist with money management and other activities of daily living.
• Assist patients with accessing necessary health care including transportation; may provide client transportation as needed.
• Provide a high level of collaboration with medical providers to ensure medical follow‑up including PCP & specialist visits, labs, tests, and procedures to manage chronic health conditions.
• Participate in hospital discharge process to promote highly coordinated care transitions for behavioral health and/or medical admissions.
• Provide wellness and health‑promoting lifestyle interventions such as nutritional counseling, smoking prevention and cessation, obesity reduction, increasing physical activity.
• Provide crisis intervention and support as clinically indicated.
• Work as liaison between agency and state and private hospitals, other community‑based services, family members and significant others.
• Maintain documentation in compliance with agency and program standards.
• Participate in staff meetings, supervision, training, and other meetings as assigned.
• Perform additional duties as required.

Education: BA in Human Services required.

Experience: Two years experience in mental health setting; experience working with primary care providers preferred.

Bilingual candidates strong‑preferred.

Licensure/Certification/Registration: Valid driver’s license; CPR/First Aid Certification within 6 months of hire.

• Proudly recognized as a Top Workplace for 12 consecutive years.
• Paid time off, including a special day off for your birthday.
• Contributions to 403(b) Retirement Plan.
• Competitive insurance premiums with discounts on pet, auto, and home insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
• Student loan repayment assistance (Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Nurse Corps, NHSC/HRSA at select sites).
• Exclusive tuition discounts for CHR employees at several local…