Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Therapist, Counselor - Licensed Clinical Professional (LCPC)

This Community Health Center seeks an Behavioral Health Consultant to deliver behavioral health and wellbeing services to our patients, with a goal of working with patients to support them in reaching their desired goals.

This Community Health Center began in 1980 as the Parent Child Center, a three-room clinic at West Suburban Medical Center that offered prenatal, postpartum, and infant care for underserved residents of Chicago’s Austin community. Since then, we have grown to encompass thirteen health centers, serving West Side Chicago and the near west suburbs, as well as providing inpatient care at West Suburban Medical Center and Norwegian American Hospital.

The Behavioral Health Consultant will:

• provide behavioral health care services to patients in all life cycles in a primary care setting
• participate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure holistic psychosocial and medical needs are met.

Monday-Friday

40 Hours

Multiple locations available in Chicago, Berwyn, Melrose Park, and Oak Park.

Location: IL - Specialty: Therapist, Counselor - Licensed Clinical Professional (LCPC)

Join Southern Illinois’ leading healthcare organization, with over 365 team members who believe that in taking care of each other and our patients and clients, we create new opportunities for success and bring big dreams to life.

Responsibilities

• Provides program development and clinical oversight of staff and interns, including hiring and training.
• Maintains a caseload of Substance Use Disorder and Behavioral Health patients.
• Develops, plans and oversees the management of program growth and sustainability.
• Works with Chief Director of Social Services and other management staff to develop new programs including proposal writing, budget development and oversight, implement program enhancements, and recommend procedural changes to improve the service delivery system.
• Develops and writes Policies and Procedures along with Best Practice Protocols for assigned programs for Leadership, CQI, and Board of Directors approval as required.
• Completes renewal application materials and required reports for assigned programs as requested.
• Identifies areas for process improvement. Implements changes to improve efficiency, workflow and productivity as identified by process improvement work groups. Serves as requested process improvement work groups.
• Represents FQHC on Coalitions, Advisory Groups, Steering Committees, and other local organized groups as assigned, representing behavioral health services for improved systems of care and continuity of care.
• Conducts public education, presentations and training sessions to the community at large, upon request.
• M - F 8:00 - 4:30

Location: Waukegan, IL - Specialty: Therapist, Counselor - Licensed Clinical Professional (LCPC)

Become an integral part of our primary care team as a behavioral health therapist integrated into the primary care clinic! The Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model is about providing access to care at the time clients need it and coordinating care with medical providers to achieve the best outcomes.

As a licensed Senior Therapist in one of our Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), you will be working on-site collaboratively alongside our medical team to provide integrated care to our patients. As a go-to on-site resource for mental health, you will provide evaluations, psycho-social education, just-in-time consultations, mentoring, and treatment services to our clients. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to join the physician in the exam room to discuss with clients how to improve their well-being and quality of life. This role assists clients in developing and accomplishing treatment goals in individual and group settings. It also provides consultation and education to community groups and emergency services. Additionally, this role works competently with clients with coexisting disorders.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who:

• Competently works with clients with coexisting disorders (youth and adults)
• Collaboratively works alongside our physicians, nurses, and medical assistants on-site in our health centers.
• Works with clients on short-term, goal-focused interventions.
• Is comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

Scheduled Hours: 40 hours a week In Clinic

• Monday - Friday (8:30 am - 5:00 pm) with 1 evening (10:30 am - 7:00 pm)
• Travel and time split between possible multiple sites including:
  • Midlakes - Round Lake, IL
  • Zion, IL
  • Belvedere Medical Building, Waukegan, IL

Essential Functions

• Provides crisis intervention services to stabilize and assess the need for and, if possible, deflect a client from psychiatric hospitalization.
• Secures and coordinates mental health services for the client between various providers, and the client or the client’s caretaker.
• Facilitates clinical consultation as assigned.
• Serve as a backup for problem-solving and decision-making in the absence of program managers.
• Ensures effective communication among all staff regarding administrative and clinical issues.
• Recommends to the Program Coordinator the transfer of clients from programs in which they are unable or unwilling to function adequately.
• Performs initial evaluations and assessments of potential clients regarding their appropriateness for participation in the program.
• Focuses on client empowerment, evidence-based or adopted best practices in providing treatment, seeking to assist clients to build strengths to meet their treatment needs.
• Facilitates with clients and collaborates with the treatment team to develop, review, and update treatment goals and referrals both internally and externally.
• Organizes and participates in treatment-related clinical conferences and staffings on assigned clients.
• Provide education and direction to clients, family members, and/or significant others.
• Takes responsibility for training in and documenting clinical chart requirements to meet program and state standards.

Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Therapist, Counselor - Licensed Clinical Professional (LCPC)

Since its founding in 1977, this Community Health Center has become the primary care medical home for thousands of Chicagoans, including some of the city's most vulnerable populations. As an award winning, nationally-recognized leading voice for community health centers, this CHC has played a vital role in providing access to affordable, comprehensive healthcare services to underserved communities throughout Chicago.

Our highly skilled doctors and medical staff are dedicated to providing the best possible care to our patients. We recognize the vital role we play not only in our patient's health, but also as an essential resource that strengthens the communities we serve.

Our health network currently includes locations in South Chicago, Pullman, East Side, Roseland and Chicago Lawn. Today, we provide accessible, affordable, high quality healthcare for more than 30,000 underserved, uninsured and underinsured patients throughout Chicago.

We are seeking a Behavioral Health Provider to join our comprehensive primary care team. As a central member of the team, you will work closely with Primary Care Providers, MAs, PSRs, Care Navigators, Care Managers, and RNs to provide excellent care to our patients.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Screening, Brief Interventions, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for patients presenting to medical appointments
• Respond promptly to warm hand-offs for patients with Behavioral Health Concerns
• Regularly consult with Primary Care Team members regarding health status and progress in treatment
• Provide updated behavioral health diagnoses (mental health and substance use) to Primary Care Team members
• Collaborate with Primary Care Team members to develop care plans for patients with behavioral health concerns

If you are passionate about providing high-quality behavioral health care to patients in a primary care setting, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. We offer competitive compensation packages and a supportive work environment.

Benefits Offered to all full-time employees:

BCBS Medical PPO Plans| BCBS Dental |VSP Vision| Tuition Reimbursement up to $1,500 per year|11 Paid Holidays and 15 Days of Paid Time Off | 8 sick days | 2.5 days of CME and CME allowance of $600 | HRSA NHSC Loan Repayment Options

Schedule: Monday - Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm with a Saturday Rotation 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Therapist, Counselor - Licensed Clinical Professional (LCPC)

This Community Health Center seeks an LCPC to be a part of a multi-disciplinary primary health care team. The LCPC will be responsible for providing mental health treatment to children, adolescents, and adults in order to improve their psychosocial functioning and overall health outcomes.

This Community Health Center is at the forefront of expanding access to affordable, comprehensive healthcare. We understand that we must continually work to evolve our thinking around patient care. As a community health care leader, we know that regardless of all the resources and advancements in medicine today, patient engagement is the most critical element in improving health outcomes. To achieve this outcome, we innovate and develop better practices to improve our care delivery model.

To continue successfully down this path, we search for candidates who share our values and goals. We don’t discriminate for any reason.  We welcome talent who believes in our mission, drives the organization forward and cares about the value they bring to an organization.

We treat the whole person and believe behavioral health is an important part of one’s overall health. We have an integrated approach to care and our behavioral health team works directly with our primary care teams to ensure that all aspects of a patient’s health are reviewed and monitored on a regular basis.

Locations Available - Multiple

Loan repayment opportunities through National Health Service Corps!