Orchid Health Behavioral Health Clinician / Estacada / Wade Creek Clinic

Orchid Health Behavioral Health Clinician / Wade Creek Clinic Estacada Oregon
Position Description
The Behavioral Health Clinician plays an essential role in furthering our vision of Healthy Rural Communities and Healthcare Revolutionized by providing compassionate care to those in need in our communities.
Wade Creek Clinic in Estacada is a School Based Rural Healthcare Clinic and the Behavioral Health Clinician will be working with a wide spectrum patients to include: school-aged to adult patients.
Responsibilities

• Facilitates a “shared goal model” within and across settings to achieve coordinated high-quality care that is patient- and family-centered
• Consult and collaborate on a multidisciplinary team. This includes providing integrated on-site care, recommendations, and feedback to medical providers and allied staff.
• Have a clearly distinguished role from a specialty mental health therapist practice model.
• Deliver brief consultation-based services with a focus on general behavioral health services in a primary care context.
• Utilize brief behavioral health visits (~30 minutes), limited in number 1-6 visits, which are provided in the primary care practice area and are seen as a routine primary care service.
• Practice in a population-based practice management strategy with flexibility to be interrupted to respond to urgent/emergency situations and “curb-side consults”.
• Provide assessments, screening, or intervention services for approximately 8 patients per day while working as part of the primary care team to effectively identify, treat, and manage physical, mental, and behavioral health concerns.
• Be available for consultation as needed with staff who need input regarding a patient’s care plan and whether they need appointments or not
• Participate in our complex care management team
• Meet patients during their initial intake visit when possible and perform a brief interview to determine needs for behavioral health support
• Other duties as assigned

Personal Responsibilities

• Maintain a calm, professional, and respectful demeanor at all times in an often stressful medical environment.
• Ask questions when you need to.
• Adapt your behavior and actions as needed based on constructive feedback.
• Show compassion every day when dealing with patients.
• Refrain from discussing personal political and religious views in the workplace.
• Support other Orchid staff and recognize them for good performance and when they go above and beyond during weekly staff meetings.
• Understand and uphold the Universal Job Expectations at all times which include treating all staff with respect and professionalism at all times.

Qualifications/Experience

• A Master’s or Doctorate Degree in clinical counseling, social work, psychology, or a behavioral health discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Oregon Licensure or within 3 months of licensure
• A minimum of two (2) years’ of providing behavioral health services (i.e. assessment, diagnosis, or treatment of an individual’s behavioral health needs) in the behavioral health field.
• Pediatrics and integrated healthcare experience preferred

Work Environment
This job operates in a professional medical office environment.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand for extended periods of time.
Compensation

• $70k to $80k/year starting salary (prorated based on a 30-40 hour work week)
• Complete benefits package including Health/Dental/Vision insurance, Paid Medical Malpractice, Wellness Benefit, Life Insurance, 401k, CME and more!
• Generous sign-on and retention bonus: $8000 sign-on bonus, $8000 retention bonus paid at 1 year anniversary, $4000 paid at 2 year anniversary.
• Student loan repayment available

At Orchid Health, we strive to be a place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay and do their best work. We believe in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different.

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 – $80,000.00 per year