Behavioral Health Care Manager

Summary

Join Fort Health, a mental health company dedicated to improving children's and adolescents' mental healthcare, as a Behavioral Health Care Manager. This remote, full-time position offers a competitive salary and benefits package. You will be an integral part of a collaborative care team, providing high-quality mental health care to children, adolescents, and their families. Responsibilities include screening and assessing patients, providing patient education and brief behavioral interventions, coordinating care with other providers, and tracking patient progress. The ideal candidate possesses a Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) in a relevant field, at least two years of clinical experience with children and adolescents, and experience with evidence-based interventions. Fort Health offers a supportive and collaborative work environment with opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Rehabilitation, or another relevant field
• Minimum 2 years of direct clinical experience working with children, adolescents, and their families (e.g., ages 4-24 years old)
• Experience and training in delivering brief evidence-based interventions (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 the 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
• Desire to work with and learn from some of the top child mental health experts in the field

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
• Have access to consultation and materials from our non-profit partner to bring to bear the most cutting edge treatment protocols and methods for our clients
• Expand and strengthen your clinical skills through the AIMS center, and take advantage of additional ongoing training and educational opportunities, conferences, and more

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Rehabilitation, or another relevant field
• Experience working in a team-based healthcare setting

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