Hybrid Behavioral Health Care Manager – Psychiatry

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About the role

  • Supports the mental health care of patients on an assigned patient caseload.
  • Closely coordinates care with the patient’s medical provider and consulting psychiatrist or other mental health providers.
  • Works together with one primary care pediatric practice and a psychiatric consultant to assess pediatric patients' mental health needs.
  • Screens and assesses patients for common mental health disorders.
  • Provides patient education about common mental health disorders and the available treatment options.
  • Facilitates patient engagement and follow-up care.
  • Systematically tracks treatment response via standardized measures in a registry and monitors patients (in person or via telephone/audio-visual encounter) for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.
  • Supports psychotropic medication management as prescribed by medical providers, focusing on treatment adherence monitoring, side effects, and effectiveness of treatment.
  • Works with patients and providers in the Autism Clinical Center to provide interval follow up for patients who are newly diagnosed with autism.
  • Provides brief psychotherapeutic/behavioral interventions using evidence-based psychosocial treatments, as clinically indicated.
  • Provides or facilitates in-clinic or outside referrals to evidence-based psychotherapy, as clinically indicated.
  • Participates in regularly scheduled caseload consultation with the psychiatric consultant and follows up on resulting treatment recommendations with the patient’s medical provider.
  • Documents patient progress and treatment recommendations so as to be shared with medical providers, psychiatric consultant, and other treating providers.
  • Facilitates referrals for clinically indicated services in the community and liaison with patient’s other community supports.
  • Attends required certification trainings as required by licensure and program needs.

Requirements

  • M.S.W. - Master Of Social Work
  • Basic Life Support certification (Online BLS certifications, those without a skills assessment component, are not sufficient to meet the BLS requirements)
  • Experience working with patients with autism and/or developmental disabilities is highly preferred
  • Experience providing evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions
  • Conducting Cognitive Or Clinical Assessments With Children And/Or Adults With Psychiatric Disorders (1 Year)
  • Computer Literacy
  • Creative Approaches
  • Developmental Disabilities
  • Developmental Therapy
  • Disability Services
  • Evidence-Based Practices (EBP)
  • Family Communication
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Making Phone Calls
  • Multidisciplinary Teamwork
  • Organizing
  • Patient Care Coordination
  • Patient Communications
  • Telemedicine
  • Working with Children

Benefits

  • Up to 22 days of vacation
  • 10 recognized holidays
  • sick time
  • Competitive health insurance packages with priority appointments and lower copays/coinsurance
  • free Metro transit U-Pass for eligible employees
  • defined contribution (403(b)) Retirement Savings Plan, which combines employee contributions and university contributions starting at 7%
  • Wellness challenges, annual health screenings, mental health resources, mindfulness programs and courses, employee assistance program (EAP), financial resources, access to dietitians, and more!
  • 4 weeks of caregiver leave to bond with your new child
  • Family care resources are also available for your continued childcare needs
  • WashU covers the cost of tuition for you and your family, including dependent undergraduate-level college tuition up to 100% at WashU and 40% elsewhere after seven years with us.

Job title

Behavioral Health Care Manager – Psychiatry

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$56,200 - $87,100 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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