*This position is for 32 or 40 hours/week (4 days with Tuesday - Thursday in clinic and 1 telehealth day on Monday or Friday)
The Behavioral Health Clinician supports the vision of healthy rural communities and accessible, integrated care by providing compassionate, person-centered behavioral health services within a primary care setting.
Responsibilities:
- Provide patient-centered, strengths-based care using a shared goals approach across care settings.
- Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support whole-person integrated care, including warm hand-offs and case consultation with medical providers and allied health staff.
- Provide short-term behavioral health interventions as part of routine primary care. Conduct screenings, assessments, and interventions to support patients' physical, mental, and behavioral health needs.
- Maintain a population-based approach to care, managing scheduled visits with same-day needs i.e. respond to urgent or emergent situations and provide real-time consultation.
- Support care teams by offering guidance on appropriate levels of behavioral health care and referral pathways.
- Serve approximately 6-8 patients per day while maintaining quality, efficiency, and responsiveness to patient needs.
- Collaborate and build relationships with community partners to enhance access to comprehensive, coordinated services that support whole-person care.
- Perform additional duties as assigned to support clinic operations and patient care.
Competencies:
- Demonstrate professionalism through respectful, calm, and clear communication.
- Practice with curiosity and openness; seek consultation and support when needed.
- Engage in ongoing self-reflection and integrate feedback into practice.
- Provide care using a trauma-informed approach, emphasizing safety, choice, collaboration, and empowerment.
- Maintain appropriate professional boundaries, including avoiding personal political or religious discussions in the workplace.
- Contribute to a positive team culture by supporting and recognizing colleagues.
- Treat all patients and team members with dignity and respect.
Required Qualifications:
- A Master's in Social Work or Masters of Counseling from an accredited college or university.
- Clinical Social Work Associate (CSWA), Personal Counselor Associate (PCA) or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) required.
- A minimum of one (1) year post-graduate (Master's) experience of providing behavioral health services (i.e. assessment, diagnosis, or treatment of an individual's behavioral health needs) in the behavioral health field required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Candidates who have completed their Oregon clinical licensure or actively engaged in the process of obtaining Oregon clinical licensure strongly preferred.
- Experience in integrated primary care and/or rural healthcare settings.
- Experience in behavioral health brief short-term therapy strategies.
- Experience working with children, adolescents and/or aging populations.
Work Environment:
While in the clinic, team members may be exposed to viruses, disease, and infection from patients and specimens in the working environment. Team members may be required to work for extended periods of time at a computer. Team members use standard office equipment, such as computers, phones, and e-fax.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee may be regularly required to use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and keyboard. This position requires intermittent physical activity, including standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, reaching, and crouching, as well as lifting and supporting patients. Computer work is required for in-clinic positions. Light to moderate lifting may be required.
Travel:
Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-the-area may be expected on occasion (CME events, or activities involving other Orchid Health Clinics).
Employment Offer Contingencies:
Job offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and drug screening.
