IL Licensed Clinician: LCSW | Behavioral Health | Pediatrics | Part-Time

Concert Health is a mission-driven behavioral health medical group that brings evidence-based behavioral health treatment to primary care practices, organizations, and patients across America.

Benefits:

• 100% remote with employer supplied computer equipment.
• Employer paid Supervision Opportunities.
• Work/life balance with paid holidays, sick time, and additional PTO plans.
• 401K.

Compensation:

• We offer a variable model that includes base salary plus performance driven bonuses.
• Hourly rate is factored on budgets, licensure level, and geographic location paid on a biweekly basis:
• • Licensed Clinician requiring supervision located in the state of Illinois: $27.40 - $34.13 per hour.
  • Licensed Clinician that does not require supervision located in the state of Illinois: $33.17 - $37.50 per hour.

Available Schedules in Central Time Zone: 

• Three or four days per week from 2:00pm - 7:00pm

Job Summary:

The Collaborative Care Clinician I is an associate-level licensed behavioral health clinician reporting to the Clinical Excellence Manager. This role provides evidence-based interventions via the Collaborative Care Model to individuals (pediatric and/or adult populations) experiencing mild to moderate symptoms and utilizes evidence-based therapeutic interventions to promote symptom reduction and optimal patient outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Provides care to patients, based on needs of assigned Care Pod, customizing treatment plan to individual patient needs.
• Supports and closely coordinates behavioral health care with the patient’s primary care provider and (when appropriate) other service providers.
• Screens patients for common behavioral health and substance use disorders using PHQ9, GAD7, Columbia Suicide Risk Assessment, or other tools as required.
• Monitors patients for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects/complications, with a goal of reduction in symptoms.
• Supports psychotropic medication management prescribed by PCPs, focusing on treatment adherence, side effects and other complications, and treatment effectiveness.
• Tracks patient follow-up and clinical outcomes using a registry, records encounters in the registry and uses the system to identify and re-engage patients.
• Plans specific mutual self-management goals, objectives, and interventions with action-oriented patients.
• Facilitates care plan changes for patients who are not improving, including changes in medications or psychosocial treatments or appropriate referrals for additional services.
• Documents patient progress and treatment recommendations in Salesforce and the electronic health record so they can be easily shared with primary care providers, the psychiatric consultant, and other treating providers.
• Completes relapse prevention plan with patients who are in remission.
• Educates patients about behavioral health/substance use disorders and treatment options.
• Establishes mutually agreeable care management plan with the care team and patient/family.
• Participates in regularly scheduled caseload consultations with psychiatric consultants.
• Participates in regularly scheduled supervision sessions with clinical supervisor.
• Identifies social determinant barriers and works alongside the Care Navigation Partner to assist in providing access to the correct level of internal or external care.

Required Education and Licensure:

• Master’s Degree in Social Work, Counseling or related field.
• Licensed to practice in their state as an associate clinician under supervision of a licensed clinician (ACSW, LCSW, LICSW, or equivalent), OR
• Licensed to practice license in their state as an independent clinician (LCSW/LICSW, LMHC, LMFT, LPC, or equivalent), AND
• Ability to complete cross-licensing in the state(s) of Missouri, Oklahoma, and/or Arkansas if Concert Health covers the cost.

Highly Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Fluent in speaking and writing in English and Spanish.
• Proficiency in evidence-based treatment approaches (