Provides mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment and crisis intervention services for adult and/or child members with a broad range of mental health. Collaborates with treating physician, psychiatric and allied health professional team to plan and direct each individual members treatment program. Provides consultation to psychiatrists, allied health professionals, and other specialty care providers on psychological and neuropsychological assessment.
Essential Functions:
- Develops, implements, coordinates, and evaluates clinical treatment programs for the diagnosis, treatment, and/or referral of Health Plan members with acute or chronic mental illness.
- Participates in staff conferences to select, plan, and evaluate treatment programs.
- Provides outpatient psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families and groups.
- Instructs and counsels patients and their families regarding compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens and adherence to prescribed medication regimens, within the scope of practice.
- May administer specialized therapeutic procedures, as appropriate.
- Provides appropriate support to member's family.
- May develop and conducts psycho-educational classes and groups.
- May conduct psychological assessments, including test administration, interpretation, and recommendations.
- Prepares intake summaries, treatment plans, and case summaries and maintains ongoing confidential records.
- Charts member's treatment and progress in accord with state and NCQA regulations and in keeping with accepted community standards.
- May be required to participate in the department on-call rotation.
- Collaborates with physicians in screening and evaluating patients for psychotropic medications, within the scope of practice.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the member's treatment.
- May develop, implements, and evaluates behavioral medicine and health psychology programs in a variety of settings, including primary care.
- Provides consultation to primary care providers and health educators on matters relating to mental health, health psychology and behavioral medicine.
- Provides clinical supervision to pre-doctoral psychology interns, postdoctoral psychology fellows, and other mental health trainees as necessary.
- May supervise Psychiatric Assistants and Psychiatric Interns.
Secondary Functions:
- Provides diagnosis, triage& treatment of patients in primary care who have a mental disorder or behavioral problems which affect their medical condition, or are a consequence of their medical condition.
- Provides consultation& training to other members of the medicine team
- Evaluates& diagnoses Health Plan members seen in primary care who mental disorders or behavioral problems which affect their medical condition, or are a consequence of their medical condition.
- Develops, implements, coordinates& evaluates treatment plans for referred members which may include crisis intervention, brief psychotherapy, psychoeducation groups& brief case management.
- Prepares concise intake evaluations and treatment plans,& maintains ongoing confidential progress records in accord with state& NCQA regulations.
- Provides education& support to members& their families to encourage compliance with medical& behavioral regimes.
- Co-manages medical conditions through the use of nonpharmacologic& behavioral interventions in order to leverage physician time& develop appropriate patterns of utilization.
- Serves as liaison& refers to the Psychiatry Department, Chemical Dependency Services, Behavioral Health Education, specialty behavioral medicine services& other internal& community resources as appropriate.
- Provide assessments in the emergency department.
- Provides assessment, diagnosis, treatment& crisis intervention of members with acute or chronic psychiatric disorders.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum two (2) years of professional experience under the direction of a licensed psychologist or board certified psychiatrist.
- PhD, PsyD, or EdD in clinical or counseling required from an accredited college or university.
- Current valid license to practice psychology in the State of California.
- Must have a National Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment startdate.
- Knowledge of social service agencies, state regulations and APA standards as it related to client treatment, patient rights and client/patient confidentiality.
- Previous clinical responsibilities to include psychological testing, diagnosis, crisis intervention, brief individual and group psychotherapy.
- Knowledge of psychological testing techniques, administration and interpretation.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous clinical responsibility to include diagnosis, brief individual and group psychotherapy, crisis intervention and consultation and collaboration with medical personnel.
- Minimum of two years post licensure experience in the use of psychosocial assessment and psychotherapeutic methods and measures in a hospital, clinic or agency.
- Knowledge of learning theory and behavioral medicine.
- Knowledge of state regulations and PhD standards related to client treatment, patient rights, and client/patient confidentiality.
- Familiarity with psychopharmacology is perferred.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively on a team, and in a primary care environment.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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