Job Details
Job Location
Hutchinson Clinic - Hutchinson, KS
Position Type
Full Time
Description
Job Summary: Provide behavioral health consultation utilizing a team-based model to children, adolescents, adults, and families to improve psychosocial functioning.
RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provided comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of behavioral health clients.
• Provide effective treatment planning and assist clients in successfully achieving goals.
• Evaluate crisis situations and apply appropriate intervention.
• Provide individual therapy to referred patients.
• Assist in the detection of "at risk" patients and development of plans to prevent further psychological or physical deterioration.
• Assist the primary care team in developing care management processes such as the use of guidelines, disease management techniques, case management, and patient education to improve self-management of chronic disease.
• Provide assessment, consultation, and brief intervention for psychological/psychiatric problems and/or disorders.
• Teach patients, families, and staff care, prevention, and treatment enhancement techniques.
• Monitor the site's behavioral health program, identifying problems related to patient services and making recommendations for improvement.
• Participates in Quality Improvement (QI), Quality Assurance (QA) and Continuous Quality Improvement Activities (CQI) as appropriate.

Qualifications
Education: Master's degree in social work
Licenses: Licensed in the State of Kansas as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Other Skills:

• Knowledge of Medical Terminology
• Excellent working knowledge of behavioral medicine and evidence-based treatments for medical and mental health conditions.
• Ability to work through brief patient contacts as well as to make quick and accurate clinical assessments of mental and behavioral conditions.
• Should be comfortable with the pace of primary care, working with an interdisciplinary team, and have strong communication skills.
• Good knowledge of psychopharmacology.
• Ability to design and implement clinical pathways and protocols for treatment of selected chronic conditions.

This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described. It may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Hutchinson Clinic.