Behavioral Health Clinician

JOB SUMMARY: 

Provides team based behavioral healthcare and care coordination and Population Management for patients who often have coexisting mental health and psychosocial challenges. Provides high-quality behavioral health services to patients served by the DHP General Internal Medicine Clinic, DHP OB/GYN Clinic and the DHP Pediatric Clinic in accordance with departmental and medical center policies and procedures, functioning within the professional code of ethics appropriate to licensure. 

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: 

Master's degree in Social Work, Counseling or Marriage and Family Therapy required. 

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: 

North Carolina Licensed Clinical Social Worker, or North Carolina Licensed Psychologist or NC Licensed Professional Counselor or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist preferred. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

1. Collaborates with Primary Care team members to provide holistic care for patients. 

2. Develops, manages, and maintains database for population health tracking. 

3 Assists with mental health screenings of DHP patients.

4. Identifies and accesses local mental health resources for patients with needs. 

5. Identifies and links patients with community programs to meet housing/nutrition/transportation needs. 

6. Provides brief counseling for appropriate patients. 

7. Maintains mental health database of patient panel. 

8. Provides group visits/ support groups for clients. 

9. Acts as DHP team resource to local agencies. 

10. Maintains database of identified patient needs and resources. 

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: 

Knowledge of the principles and techniques of administrative management Strong organization, planning, staffing, training, budgeting, and reporting skills Moderate proficiency in Excel/ MicroSoft Word Familiarity with Electronic Medical Records, and integrated behavioral billing in primary care 

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 

Based out of the Downtown Health Plaza Subject to interruptions 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.