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Job Title
Behavioral Health Consultant
Job Description
The Behavioral Health Consultant will serve as a behavioral health and substance abuse consultant within the facility. Key duties include conducting behavioral health assessments, evaluations, and diagnoses of detained non-citizens, providing supportive counseling and psychotherapy, and utilizing the electronic medical record for clinical documentation. The consultant will also promote and facilitate multidisciplinary treatment approaches, coordinate with various health service administrators and consultants, and participate in behavioral health case management and team leadership activities.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
Behavioral Health Clinical Practice: Serves as a consultant, conducts assessments, provides counseling and therapy, utilizes EMR for documentation, and promotes multidisciplinary treatment.
Behavioral Healthcare Planning, Evaluation, and Development: Coordinates with various administrators and consultants, provides education to staff, reviews reports, and collaborates on addressing behavioral health trends and challenges.
Behavioral Health Care Coordination: Maintains communication with healthcare providers, collaborates on treatment plans, coordinates continuity of care, and provides referrals to higher levels of care.
Behavioral Health Case Management: Facilitates referrals, maintains registries, establishes liaisons, and ensures continuity of behavioral health services.
Team Leadership (non-supervisory)/Administration: Serves on policy workgroups, participates in peer reviews, attends meetings, conducts competency training, and provides education on various behavioral health topics.
Worksite address
elizabeth, NJ, 07215, US
Who can apply
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