Behavioral Health Faculty Lead

Department Overview

OHSU Health Primary Care at South Hillsboro is part of HMC healthcare and OHSU School of Medicine. We provide preventive, primary and specialty care for you, your children, your spouse, your parents and your grandparents. We provide all that family medicine has to offer - from maternity care through geriatrics. Family Medicine strongly supports the comprehensive scope to provide the highest level of care for our community. The clinical work includes but is not limited to all ages of life including newborn to end of life, taking care of those who are pregnant, and supporting patients with substance use disorder including medication-assisted treatment and gender affirming care. HMC and OHSU embraces diversity and welcomes all patients.  

 

The Appointee shall provide services as assigned by the supervisor in furtherance of the university’s missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach and public service.

This position supports both clinical and education missions within the Department of Family Medicine. The Behavioral Health Consultant (BHC) position is a behavioral health clinician who operates as a core member of the integrated care team within Family Medicine at Primary Care at HMC South Hillsboro.

 

This position involves a high degree of clinical complexity and requires advanced-level generalist skill in delivering evidence-based interventions targeted to improve health and wellbeing for a large variety of patients across the lifespan. The BHC position serves as an advocate for integrated behavioral health within the primary care setting. This position also serves as the behavioral health team lead, providing direct support to the team through the development and management of work flows, management of schedules, direct clinical consultation and functions as a BH representative at clinic-based meetings.

 

In addition to the clinical role, this position provides educational support to the Hillsboro Medical Center Family Medicine Residency through the development and delivery of behavioral science curriculum. This includes delivering didactic material, providing teaching in the clinical environment, participating in resident recruitment and interviews, participating in evaluation of residents, and working closely with the Residency Program Director to meet the behavioral science educational needs of all HMC family medicine residents.

 

We are committed to providing an open and equitable recruitment process with the goal of recognizing diverse lived experience that will contribute to the success of the organization and goals of this position. We are deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and diversity and welcome applications from candidates who will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core values and accountability to these values helps us better serve our diverse community.

Function/Duties of Position

Curriculum Development and Direct Teaching 

FM Residency

• Lead the design and implementation of longitudinal curricula concerning identification and treatment of mental health disorders, patient-centered communication skills, emotional content of clinical care, physician wellness, and integration of psychosocial assessment into primary care visits and coordination of care with local mental health and social safety net resources. This will include didactic lectures and innovative teaching processes such as:
• (1) Role play: design patient scenarios through which residents can practice communication skills with each other.
• (2) Simulation Learning:  assist in planning, carrying out, and evaluating the following training Observed Structured Clinical Examination simulated encounters to teach and assess family medicine residents communication skills with patients who have mood disorders.
• (3) Video Review: participate in video review of resident encounters to assess counter-transference processes and communication skills.
• (4) Experiential Learning
• (5) Clinical teaching: Shadowing, co-facilitating visits, consultation
• Present curriculum and ongoing educational material in the behavioral science to residents, medical students, faculty and staff
• Design and present curricula in collaboration with other core faculty on the subjects of wellness, professionalism, health equity and social justice.
• Instruct residents and medical students on working with mental and behavioral health professionals in the patient centered medical home and during clinical encounters.
• Lead and organize Balint group and/or support groups for FM residents. Identify appropriate support group leaders for junior residents and provide mentoring as needed for these facilitators.
• Organize video review and facilit