Central Health

Intensive Outpatient Behavioral Health Counselor

Req No.
2024-3242
Company
CommUnityCare Health Centers
Name
Capital Plaza
Address
5621 N Interstate 35 Frontage Rd.
City
Austin
Category
Professionals
State
TX
Type
Regular Full-Time

Overview

We offer a hybrid work model for this position, allowing you to work both from an approved off-site location and at our primary office or multiple locations as needed.

 

As an integrated member of a holistic care team, the IOT BHC in the Addictions Recovery/MAT Program will work
with addiction medicine, primary care, and other specialty providers, to assist in providing trauma-informed care
for patients with complex needs. Utilizing a harm reduction approach, the IOT BHC will provide evidence based
behavioral health and substance use interventions, to meet the patients' goals around their relationship with
substances and alcohol. To improve overall wellness and quality of life, the IOT BHC will assess patients'
readiness for change, along with the emotional and psychosocial issues, which often co-occur with substance and
alcohol use disorders. The IOT BHC will work closely with the patients' integrated team members to address a
multitude of the patients' medical, behavioral health, and substance/alcohol use issues. In a rapid-paced,
community health clinic, this includes response to crisis episodes, identification of DSM-5 diagnoses, and
utilization of appropriate interventions for symptoms including, but not limited to, anxiety, psychosis,
depression, PTSD, and substance and alcohol use disorders. The IOT BHC-AR will provide support through the
continuum of care, based on consideration of individual recovery goals, family support and reunification, creation
of healthy support systems, and coordinate with team members to assist patients' stabilization around their
substance and alcohol use, with consideration of complex medical and mental health conditions. Harm
reduction, overdose prevention and response education, will also be a necessary requirement of the IOT BHC.

Responsibilities

  • Provide assessments, screening, and intervention services as an essential member of the interdisciplinary care
    team, through collaboration with the primary care and/or specialty providers to identify, treat, and manage
    patient behavioral health that is primarily affected by patients’ substance and alcohol use.
  • Consult and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to provide integrated on-site care, by counselor
    assessment of patients’ goals, readiness for behavioral changes, progress and barriers, and appropriate level of
    care/ services for patients with MH/substance use disorders, with high proportion of caseloads on medications for
    treatment of alcohol and opioid use disorders (MAT/MOUD).
  • Provide trauma-informed, person-centered care, with harm reduction approach, within collaborative addiction
    recovery team, and in conjunction with patients primary, specialty, acute, chronic, and preventative care.
  • Provide psychoeducation around recovery models, overdose prevention, and harm reduction to patients and
    primary support system
  • Serve all patients who have been scheduled/referred to the AR/MAT Department and maintain low barriers to
    care; utilize warm handoffs with all other internal/external community social services and medical providers.
    Visits may be in-person, telehealth, co-visits, walk-in, scheduled, or as requested by another team within
    SEHWC.
  • Utilize current knowledge of access to local and online recovery resources to provide clients with broad variety of
    pathways to recovery to support, define, and achieve personal goals.
  • Collaborate with the care team to provide warm hand-offs, and referrals to appropriate level of addiction
    recovery and mental health care, and/or crisis services as appropriate; Provide crisis interventions as needed.
  • Develop holistic patient-centered recovery plans, that support patient needs, to include basic, psychiatric, social,
    financial, environmental, and health needs to improve overall wellness and quality of life.
  • Utilize appropriate evidence-based non-pharmacologic BH/SUD treatment modalities and interventions based on
    patient needs, with active knowledge of MI, CBT, CM, ME, Family Therapy, Models of Relapse Prevention, and
    other appropriate modalities.
  • Attend patient care huddles, meetings, patient conferences, or planning sessions. These may be related to
    quality assurance, patient care and other related topics within the clinic.
  • Ensure all tasks provided and associated with patient care, patient administrative processes and related duties
    comply with all regulatory and accreditation standards including The Joint Commission and CommUnityCare
    Standard Operating Procedures and CommUnityCare Policies and Procedures.
  • Maintain all licensure and/or certification requirements for continuing education and best practices.

Qualifications

Education:

Master's Degree Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or related field. Required

 

Professional Experience:

Two (2) years of clinical experience in mental health Required

One (1) year of that experience in a primary care clinic, SUD/COPSD treatment services, community psychiatric, or other intensive care setting. Preferred

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