Behavioral Health Clinician

Hill Country Community Clinic

Job Description

Job Title:           Behavioral Health Clinician

Department:      Behavioral Health

FLSA Status:    Non-Exempt

Salary:               DOE

Reports To:      Behavioral Health Director

Schedule:         Full or Part Time, Monday-Friday

Location:           Round Mountain

Who We Are:  Hill Country Health and Wellness Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center providing integrated primary care, mental health care, substance use disorder treatment, dental care and other community programs and services aimed at improving the health and well-being of people living in our community.  We are a mission-driven agency that was started locally in the 1980s by a small group of young friends with a simple commitment to helping people in their community live healthier, more fulfilling lives.  

Over the years these efforts have led to the development of a variety of direct services and programs.  Hill Country has two main clinics in Round Mountain and Redding. In addition, we provide urgent mental health services that includes a field-based Mobile Crisis Outreach Team. Our Wellness Centers in Round Mountain and Burney serve adults and teens. We also have several “complex care” teams working in Redding and in eastern Shasta County. These teams include clinicians, case managers, and nurses who work with primary care and psychiatry to provide intensive outpatient care for persons with chronic health conditions, serious mental health problems, substance use issues, and other life challenges.  Hill Country is best known for being genuinely caring and kind, going the extra mile for our clients, and for working with others to create positive change in our community.

POSITION SUMMARY: 

Licensed Clinicians are responsible for the provision of psychotherapy services.

ACSW or AMFT registered Clinicians work under clinical supervision in the provision of psychotherapy services.  

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Other duties may be assigned which may become essential to the position. 

• Engage with and build effective helping relationships with a wide variety of clients and, whenever appropriate, their families and other significant persons
• Performs comprehensive psychosocial assessments.
• Develops person-, family-centered psychotherapy goals and intervention strategies, often as a part of a broader team-based care plan.
• Provides ongoing psychotherapy interventions and facilitates transitions in care, as appropriate
• Provides crisis prevention, intervention, stabilization and recovery support, as needed
• Collaboration with others to ensure optimal care (e.g. clients, caregivers, primary care, psychiatric specialty care, case managers and other persons clients’ identify important to their care
• Arrange for care coordination activities to support clients, as needed.
• Makes referrals to appropriate resources and services as needed