Community health is about more than just vaccines and checkups. It's about giving people the resources they need to live their best lives. At Neighborhood, this is our vision:a community where everyone is healthy and happy. We're with you every step of the way, with the care you need for each of life's chapters. At Neighborhood, we are Better Together.
As a private, non-profit 501(C) (3) community health organization, we serve over 414,000 medical, dental, and behavioral health visits from more than 90,000 people annually. We do this in pursuit of our mission to improve the health and happiness of the communities we serve by providing quality care to all, regardless of situation or circumstance.
Since 1969,our employees have been making this mission a reality.Regardless of the role, our team focuses on being compassionate, having integrity, being professional, always collaborating, and consistently going above and beyond.If this sounds like an organization you would like to be a part of, we would love to meet you.
Provides integrated behavioral health services within a primary care setting.Meets with individuals and families to provide brief behavioral psychotherapy services to patients and consultations primary care providers using an integrated care model.
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Direct patient care

• Provide brief psychotherapy as needed to patients and families.
• Respond promptly and with caring actions to patients and employees.
• Acknowledge psychosocial, spiritual and cultural beliefs and honor these beliefs.

Provider and team support

• Consult with primary care providers about behavioral aspects of their patients' medical treatment.
• Contribute to the success of the organization by participating in quality improvement activities
• Maintain professional working relationships with all levels of staff, clients and the public.
• Be part of a team and cooperate in accomplishing department goals and objectives

Clinical administration

• Design, market, conduct, and evaluate health promotion programs for smoking cessation, weight management, stress management, diabetes, and other types of health promotion services.
• Participate in case conferences, departmental or agency meetings as required by supervisor.
• Attend special training programs involving travel to other sites or through the internet.
• Actively participates in care coordination and collaboration with Interfaith Community Services shared patients.
• Display knowledge of normal signs of human development and ability to assess and provide age-appropriate care.

Requirements
Education : Must be license-eligible in CA either as an LCSW or Psychologist.
Skills :

• Demonstrated skill in providing psychotherapy and familiarity with medical service environments or provision of health psychology services such as smoking cessation, weight management, stress management.
• Ability to work well in an interdisciplinary team within medical care.
• Good written and oral communication skills. Legible handwriting and minimal computer literacy, but familiarity with one or more word-processing, spreadsheet or electronic medical records systems and ability to do some charting simultaneously while in session.
• Excellent customer service skills.

Experience:

• At least two years of experience (pre or post doc/licensure) providing psychotherapy with children, adults, and adolescents.
• Preferred experience providing health psychology services such as smoking cessation, weight management, stress management, or work with chronically medically ill patients.
• Preferred child/adolescent experience
• Preferred bilingual/Spanish

Pay ranges:
LCSW:$92,000 - $115,000 per year, depending on experience (DOE)
Psychologist: $105,000 - $140,000, depending on experience (DOE)