Behavioral Health Clinician, Full Time, Days, AMG Primary Care - Behavioral Health
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Key details
- Location
- New Jersey, United States
- Work style
- Onsite
- Job type
- Full-time
- Function
- Healthcare
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- Yesterday
Skills
About the role
Responsible for providing short-term behavioral health services including individual therapy utilizing the collaborative care model, in our Sussex and / or Warren counties.
Principal Accountabilities:
1. Establishes rapport with patients through active listening, empathy, positive regard, and non-judgmental communication.
2. Screens, assesses, and monitors patients for common mental health and substance use disorders. Facilitates patient engagement and follow-up care.
3. Educates patients and families on diagnoses, treatment options, relapse prevention, and self-management strategies.
4. Provides brief, evidence-based behavioral interventions such as behavioral activation, cognitive behavior therapy, problem-solving treatment, motivational interviewing, or other treatments as appropriate.
5. Demonstrates an understanding of patient problems/dynamics. Identifies defenses, schemas, attitudes, behaviors, and coping strategies and applies appropriate interventions based on evidence-based best practices. Demonstrates cultural competence and age-specific clinical skills.
6. Collaborates closely with medical providers, psychiatric consultants, and other specialty providers on a shared plan of care.
7. Facilitates in-clinic and community referrals to evidence-based psychosocial treatments and social services as appropriate.
8. Develops, implements, and revises treatment goals in collaboration with medical providers and psychiatric consultant, using clinical data and validated screening measures during regularly scheduled case consultations.