Behavioral health counselor Lead is a core member of the Sanitas medical centers care team. Behavioral Health Counselor Lead supervises clinical activities and clinical care of all program services.

Essential Job Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Complete and maintain all documentation in a timely and accurate manner according to all federal, state and center guidelines.
2. Supervise program staff including regular individual and group staff meetings and case consultation; oversee proper patient to staff ratio; provide daily, weekly and/or monthly clinical supervision to program staff as required.
3. Provide support with in-crisis or problem cases; provide on-going assistance to program staff in coordinating services for patients, including afterhours assistance, support and coverage as needed or scheduled.
4. Support new and existing program staff by providing field training, perspective, and empowerment which enable direct service personnel to deliver the service effectively.
5. Develop staff skills and conducts performance evaluations and identifies training needs.
6. Meet or exceed program productivity expectations on a regular and sustained basis
7. Support the mental and physical health care of patients on an assigned patient caseload. Closely coordinate care with the patients medical provider and, when appropriate, other mental health providers.
8. Screen and assess patients for common mental health and substance abuse disorders. Facilitate patient engagement and follow-up care.
9. Develop and implement care plans/treatment plans.
10. Provide brief behavioral interventions using evidence-based techniques such as behavioral activation, problem-solving treatment, motivational interviewing, or other treatments as appropriate.
11. Guide patients in the development of skills and strategies for dealing with their diagnosis.
12. Support psychotropic medication management as prescribed by medical providers, focusing on treatment adherence monitoring, side effects, and effectiveness of treatment.
13. Track treatment response and monitor patients for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.
14. Collaborate with a variety of health professionals in the patients circle of care including but not limited to primary care providers, care nurses, care coordinators, community health workers, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals and specialists to ensure a comprehensive continuity of care.
15. Provide individual, family or group interventions, to assist patients in adjusting to life and making changes.
16. Provide or facilitate in-clinic or outside referrals to evidence-based psychosocial as clinically indicated.
17. Participate in regularly scheduled (usually weekly) caseload consultation with the psychiatric consultant and communicate resulting treatment recommendations to the patients medical provider.
18. Facilitate treatment plan changes for patients who are not improving as expected in consultation with the medical provider and the psychiatric consultant and who may need more intensive or more specialized mental health care.
19. Develop and complete relapse prevention self-management plan with patients who have achieved their treatment goals and are soon to be discharged from the caseload.
20. Resolve emergency problems in crisis situations.
21. Connect patients and family members with community and social resources.
22. Guide clinical staff on how to manage common behavioral health situations.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position manages all employees of the department and is responsible for the performance management and hiring of the employees within that department.

Required Education and Experience

1. Relevant: 2-year experience
2. Masters degree in counseling or related field (Social work, Mental health counseling, family and couples therapy)
3. License by a state board to provide counseling preferred (LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, or LPC).
4. Flexible scheduled weekdays weekend.
5. BLS certification
6. Ability to travel in assigned region
7. Proven experience in supervising clinical staff.
8. Excellent oral and written communication skills.
9. Ability to work with a team of professionals and have the ability to implement team strategy approaches to work assignments.

Preferred Education and Experience

1. Relevant or any other job-related vocational coursework.
2. Bilingual Spanish and English preferred.
3. Board certified qualified supervisor in social work, mental health counseling, or marriage and family therapy.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of the company. Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholders responsibility.