Behavioral Health Clinician

Job Title: Behavioral Health Clinician

Reports To: Medical Director/Practice Manager

Position: Full-time

General Description: We seek a Behavioral Health Clinician who will work on a multidisciplinary team in a pediatric primary care setting.

Children’s Medical Office is a highly collaborative group practice on Boston’s North Shore. We provide care to patients from birth to age 22 with a variety of socio-economic backgrounds and special health care needs. Our clinicians include 5 pediatricians, 4 pediatric nurse practitioners, 2 on-site behavioral health clinicians (PhD and LICSW), and a certified dietician.

The clinician will provide behavioral health services to patients and families within the practice’s model of the medical home. The clinician will consult with medical staff in the practice on behavioral management, and help coordinate behavioral health referrals to services outside the practice. This candidate should be passionate about providing patient- centered care and should be willing to make quality improvements to best serve their pediatric patients.

Summary of Duties:

- Provide individual and family behavioral intervention for pediatric patients ranging from toddlers to young adults in a primary care setting.

- Provide short-term problem-focused interventions for the majority of patients. For some patients and their families, more moderate to intermediate length treatment may be more appropriate and therapeutically beneficial. Typical issues include anxiety, depression, ADHD, family discord, and behavioral outbursts.

- Evaluate children with positive behavioral health screens to determine need for further diagnostic assessment and behavioral services

- Provide consultative support to the practice’s providers

- Provide documentation as required for approval of behavioral health services by health insurer

- Assist with administrative tasks and oversight of the department (including ensuring compliance with insurance requirements for session notes, treatment plans, supervision, treatment authorizations, RBT requirements, etc.)

- Engage in various educational and professional development training to enhance ability to provide effective, efficient and quality care. We also specifically ask that the provider actively participate in provider/staff training via in-house educational sessions at provider rounds to enhance coordination of care and understanding of the intersection between medical and behavioral health issues.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Has a Doctoral degree in psychology from an APA–accredited program (PhD or PsyD) or a Master’s degree in Social Work or Mental Health Counseling from a CSWE–accredited program

- Is currently licensed in Massachusetts at the independent practice level

- Has experience with and comfortable working on a team

- Has a minimum of 3 years clinical experience working with children and families

- Has an understanding of “behavioral health integration in primary care” and the “medical home”

- Has experience with EHR (electronic health records) and an overall comfort with computers and health-related software

Preferred Qualifications:

· Has experience with the EMR system Epic

· Has experience as a case coordinator and local resources.

If interested, please send CV and interest to:

Elisabeth Winterkorn, MD

Medical Director

Children’s Medical Office of North Andover

[email protected]

Pay: $57,096.11 - $68,760.91 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person