BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONSULTANT (LCSW/LCSW-R)
The Institute for Family Health
- The Bronx, NY
- $100,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provides direct social work services, which include crisis intervention, individual, and group therapy, in collaboration with other members of an interdisciplinary team and completion of relevant documents, assessments, and treatment/shared care plans.
- Assesses patients for behavioral health service needs via screening tools and clinical contact and makes linkages to care.
- Provides single contact crisis intervention to patients seeing a primary care clinician.
- Provides short term treatment to patients as assigned.
- Reviews and outreaches to patients who receive a referral from Primary Care.
- Participates in departmental quality assurance and CQI activities.
- Supervises clinical and administrative work of assigned staff.
- Provides clinical supervision for assigned staff.
- Analyzes and evaluates the quantitative and qualitative performance of assigned supervisees and completes probationary and annual performance evaluations for staff within expected time frames.
- Oversees orientation and training of new staff assigned.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Masters in Social Work required
- New York Licensed Clinical Social Worker, or equivalent required
- Basic computer and internet navigational skills required
- Computer literacy with Windows-based operating systems and MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) required
- Familiarity with electronic health records (EHR technology) preferred
- Supervisory experience in health care setting, preferably in multi-site ambulatory care setting
- Bi-lingual Spanish preferred