Behavioral Health Care Manager

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• Shawnee Health is seeking a Behavioral Health Care Manager for our Williamson County clinics.
• This position reports to the Behavioral Health Program Coordinator.
• The Behavioral Health Care Manager functions as a core member of a collaborative care team that involves the patient’s primary care provider, psychiatric provider, behavioral health providers and other clinical team members in the primary care clinic.
• The care manager is responsible for coordinating and supporting behavioral health and substance abuse care provided in the primary care clinic.
• He/she is also responsible for coordinating referrals to clinically indicated services outside the primary care clinic (e.g., social services, mental health specialty care, and substance abuse treatment).
• Evidence-based screenings and other activities in support of the primary care provider directed care.

Responsibilities

• Support and closely coordinate behavioral health and substance abuse care with the patient’s primary care provider and, when appropriate, other treating behavioral health providers.
• Screens patients for common behavioral health and substance abuse disorders utilizing evidence based tools.
• Provide patient education about common behavioral/mental health and substance abuse disorders and available treatment options.
• Monitor patients (in person or by telephone) for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complication as reported by patient.
• Support psychotropic medication management prescribed by PCPs, focusing on treatment adherence, side effects and other complications, and effectiveness of treatment.
• Provide brief interventions using evidence‐based techniques such as problem‐solving, motivational interviewing, or other interventions appropriate for primary care settings.
• Facilitate in‐clinic or outside referrals to behavioral health and substance abuse treatment as clinically indicated.
• Facilitate patient engagement and follow‐up in care.
• Track patient follow up and clinical outcomes in EHR. Document in-person and telephone encounters and use the system to identify and re-engage patients.