Behavior Health Care Manager

Job description

Department Overview The behavioral health care manager (BHCM) position is a behavioral health provider who operates in the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) as part of our integrated behavioral health teams. The behavioral health care manager is a core member of the CoCM team, including the patient’s medical provider (primary care provider, or referring specialty provider) and psychiatric consultant, traditional health care worker (THW) if available, as well as the larger clinic team to ensure continuity of care. The BHCM is responsible for supporting and coordinating the mental and physical health care of CoCM patients on an assigned patient caseload with the patient’s primary care provider and the CoCM psychiatric consultant. When appropriate, the BHCM may also coordinate care with other internal and external mental health providers. This position involves a high degree of clinical complexity and advanced level of skill in delivering evidence- based interventions targeted to improve wellbeing and health for a large variety of patients with emotional and behavioral concerns commonly seen in a primary care setting. The work includes screening and assessing patients for common mental...