Behavioral Health Care Manager

Summary

Join Fort Health, a mental health company focused on improving children's and adolescents' mental healthcare, as a Behavioral Healthcare Manager. You'll be a key member of a collaborative care team, providing high-quality mental health services to young patients and their families. Responsibilities include patient assessment, treatment planning, care coordination, and brief therapy sessions. The role requires a relevant license (LCSW, LMFT, LPC, LMHC, or NP), experience with children and adolescents, and skills in evidence-based treatments. Preferred qualifications include experience in team-based settings and familiarity with specific measurement-based care tools. Fort Health offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including generous PTO, malpractice coverage, and professional development stipends.

Requirements

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), or advanced practice psychiatric practitioner (NP)
• Licensed independently to practice
• Minimum 1-year of direct clinical experience working with children, adolescents and their families (e.g., ages 4-24 years old)
• Experience and training in delivering brief psychosocial evidence-based treatments (e.g., CBT, problem solving treatment, behavioral activation, motivational interviewing)
• Experience with care coordination
• Strong experience with screening for common mental health disorders and symptom assessment with children and adolescents
• Working knowledge of differential diagnosis of common mental health disorders
• Strong skills in engaging parents and children, developing appropriate treatment planning, and ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in a team setting
• Experience using measurement-based care tools (e.g., PHQ-9, GAD-7, SCARED, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience providing telehealth
• Must have reliable, high-speed internet access with minimum speeds of 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload

Responsibilities

• Screen and assess patients for common mental health disorders, facilitate patient engagement and follow-up care
• Provide patient education about common mental health disorders and the available treatment options
• Systematically track treatment response and monitor patients for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications
• Support psychotropic medication management as prescribed by medical providers, focusing on treatment adherence monitoring, side effects, and effectiveness of treatment
• Provide brief behavioral interventions using evidence-based techniques (e.g., problem-solving treatment, motivational interviewing, behavioral activation)
• Identifies appropriate resources and coordinates referral process to community resources when appropriate
• Participate in regularly scheduled caseload consultation with the psychiatric consultant and communicate resulting treatment recommendations to the patient’s medical provider
• Collaborate with the collaborative care team to provide personalized treatment plans for every child and their family
• Constantly communicating and working with the family to drive the treatment plan forward
• Track patient follow up and clinical outcomes using a registry and document patient progress and treatment recommendations in the electronic health record
• Develop and complete relapse prevention self-management plan with patients who have achieved their treatment goals and are soon to be discharged from the caseload
• Participate in individual supervision with a psychologist to ensure you have the support you need to be successful

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred experience working in a team-based healthcare setting
• Desire to work with and learn from some of the top child mental health experts in the field

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Generous paid time off including paid company holidays, mental health days
• 1 Paid week of company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Full malpractice coverage while you are providing care at Fort Health
• Yearly professional development stipend
• Ability to be part of a startup and help build a new treatment model
• Collaborative and supportive mission-oriented work environment