Job Description
Job Description
$ 2,500 Sign on Bonus!
Behavioral Health Clinician (full time or part time)
Lamprey Health Care, New Hampshire's oldest community health center, is seeking a qualified licensed or license-eligible Behavioral Health Clinician to join our family practice.
The Behavioral Health Clinician provides high-quality behavioral healthcare as a collaborative primary care team member. This involves traditional long term therapy as well as short-term episodes of care, skill-based counseling, and coordination/outreach.
We are offering a $2,500 sign on bonus for this position.
This is a full or part-time benefitted position located at our Nashua location. Once oriented to the position, the option to work remotely one day per week is provided.
Responsibilities:
- A licensed Behavioral Health Clinician works with the Primary Care team to address the behavioral health needs of patients in primary care utilizing a model of integrated care, which includes consults, short-term counseling, care coordination, outreach and data collection.
- Utilizes evidence-based clinical procedures to deliver care.
- Based on the need of the individual patient, provides face-to-face, short-term counseling including; problem-solving therapy, CBT, motivational interviewing or brief supportive therapy to some patients, and provides traditional long term therapy to others.
- Proactively communicates with patients, primary care team members and psychiatric providers to aid in effective, patient-centered, team-based care.
- Assists patients in need of more intensive levels or care, specialty mental health services, outside of primary care, to connect with appropriate treatment resources.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage & Family Counseling/Therapy, or Addiction Counseling from an accredited institution of higher education, including an internship meeting professional standards.
- Must be able to demonstrate that he or she has provided behavioral health services, on an inpatient, outpatient or consultative basis in the past 12 months
- Licensed or license-eligible as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), or Master Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor (MLADC) in the State of NH.
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- Paid STD, LTD and Life Insurance
- 403B match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Generous earned time bank (vacation), Paid Birthday and attendance incentives
Pay Range:
- $ 70,000 - $ 73,000