School-Based Behavioral Health Clinician—Traverse Academy

University of Colorado Anschutz

Department: School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Division

Job Title: School-Based Behavioral Health Clinician—Traverse Academy

Position #00851840 – Requisition #40785

Job Summary:

The Department of Psychiatry (DOP) at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Division of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (DCAMH) invites applications for an School-Based Behavioral Health Clinician/Masters Licensed Therapist (BHC/MLT) to provide direct patient care at Traverse Academy. Traverse Academy is a school-based intensive mental health treatment program within the Cherry Creek School District (CCSD). It will be an integrated school and intensive outpatient treatment center, including specialized transition programming, for students with significant and impairing emotional and/or behavioral disorders. The program is part of an effort to reduce risk for self-injurious behavior and suicide through collaborative school-academic partnerships and facilitate a smooth transition from intensive treatment to the student’s home school. Patient care activities include intake diagnostic assessment; group, individual, and family-based treatment; crisis management support; and close collaboration with CCSD mental health and educational partners to facilitate smooth transitions back to the home school and community mental health services. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides direct patient care to children, adolescents, and their families at Traverse Academy, including group therapy, individual/family therapy, crisis evaluation, and diagnostic intake evaluations.
• Implements evidence-based therapeutic interventions, including those based in transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy principles.
• Engages in ongoing treatment monitoring and planning for transition back to the student’s home school and to community-based therapy services.
• Collaborates closely with other CU and CCSD mental health providers, as well as CCSD educational staff within Traverse Academy, to coordinate on treatment planning and progress.
• Provides innovative therapeutic summer programming to children and adolescents with emotional and/or behavioral concerns and their families.
• Maintains timely communication with team members and supervisors
• Attends team meetings and educational in-services for Behavioral Health Clinicians
• Enters appropriate notes and charge captures that comply with state and federal standards in the medical record for all patients seen.
• Other duties as assigned

Supervision Received:

The BHC/MLT will provide clinical services under the supervision of an identified licensed Clinician

Work Location:

Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Aurora, CO.

Why Join Us:

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a world-class medical destination at the forefront of transformative science, medicine, education and patient care. The campus encompasses the University of Colorado health professional schools, more than 60 centers and institutes, and two nationally ranked independent hospitals - UCHealth University of Col