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

Job Summary

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor to join our behavioral health team.  The ideal candidate will have a strong commitment to managing and coordinating individual, family and community behavioral health needs for people of all ages in a caring, responsive, coordinated and comprehensive manner.  As a therapist, you will provide evidence-based screenings and treatment for patients at the Clinic and conduct appropriate referrals specific to each patient.  

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills and positive attitude to effectively interact professionally with patients and team members
• Compassionate approach towards mental health care and education
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to compose and dictate concise records
• Experience with pediatric population is preferred, but not required

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

This Community Health Center seeks an LCPC to provide high-quality, comprehensive care that is based on relationships, comprehensive, coordinated, accessible, safe, and high quality. 

Originally an addiction treatment provider, this Community Health Center has grown and expanded to meet some of our society’s most challenging health care demands. Over four decades, we have grown to over 700 committed, compassionate employees providing primary care, substance use and mental health treatment to patients in Central and Southern Illinois. We provide fully integrated care for all of our patients by combining behavioral health care services with community-based primary care health centers. 

This LCPC will:

• work collaboratively with the other members of the team to provide an integrated approach to care
• promote effective communication with patients and encourage the role of the patient as a partner in health care
• continuously work to achieve our mission to make a difference and improve quality of life through excellence in service

Position is 40 hours per week.

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

This Community Health Center/County Health Department seeks an LCPC to provide high quality, evidence-based mental health care to assist individuals with improving their quality of life

When it began, this Community Health Center/County Health Department had only one site and nine employees. Today there are more than 100 employees working in four different sites, working to to preserve, protect, and promote the health of the community through the provision of medical, dental, and behavioral health care.

The LCPC is responsible for providing direct patient care including assessment, educational and therapeutic mental health services to children, adolescents and adults as allowed within their scope of service. The LCPC works as part of a collaborative team and works in conjunction and consultation with a licensed Psychiatrist and a Family Practice Physician. Reports to the Clinical Director

38 Hours Per Week, Full Time

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

This Community Health Center/County Health Department seeks an LCPC to provide high quality, evidence-based mental health care to assist individuals with improving their quality of life

When it began, this Community Health Center/County Health Department had only one site and nine employees. Today there are more than 100 employees working in four different sites, working to to preserve, protect, and promote the health of the community through the provision of medical, dental, and behavioral health care.

The LCPC is responsible for providing direct patient care including assessment, educational and therapeutic mental health services to children, adolescents and adults as allowed within their scope of service. The LCPC works as part of a collaborative team and works in conjunction and consultation with a licensed Psychiatrist and a Family Practice Physician. Reports to the Clinical Director

38 Hours Per Week, Full Time

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: 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)

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Participating as an integrated component within the primary care team by being available for warm-handoff brief screening and interventions at the direction of primary care clinicians on the day of service.
• Actively assessing daily schedules of primary care clinicians to proactively plan on potential warm-handoff and brief interventions, communicating during session huddles, and co-location with primary care clinicians and nursing staff during clinical hours.
• Conduct brief screening and targeted counseling, short term counseling if needed, and bridges patients to specialty mental health services when appropriate.
• Manages behavioral health referrals and message pool under the direction of the Main Behavioral Health Coordinator (Medical Social Consultant).
• Conducts assessments to identify individual needs and psychosocial risk factors and a specific care management plan.
• Promotes and coordinates optimum healthcare services with cost effective solutions.
• Counsels' patients and families regarding emotional, social, and financial consequences of illness and/or disability, accessing and mobilizing family/community resources to meet identified needs.
• Provides crisis intervention and brief term counseling with patients and families.
• Implements care plan by facilitating authorizations/referrals as appropriate.
• Identify and communicate a self-management plan specifically developed to assist with the improvement of self-monitoring and symptom identification.
• Assesses patients’ healthcare needs and initiates outside referrals for community resources and services needed.
• Empowers patients to identify changes in health status and recognize the need to notify their primary care provider of changes.
• Collaborates with the MSHC-BHI team, health center staff, primary care and specialty care providers, school staff, patients, family, insurance carrier, customers, and facilities to assess the patient’s healthcare and psychosocial needs and assure appropriate safe, cost effective, timely, and efficient services.
• Facilitates daily communication with the MSHC-BHI team to discuss plan of care and assist with expediting care across the continuum, including participating in daily huddles and communicating to the Care Team or PCP any patient issue that will enhance the office visit.
• Identifies service delivery problems and potential for effective care management intervention.
• Assists in identifying system problems and issues that impede (impeding) diagnostic or treatment progression to the appropriate administrative liaison.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team when delays occur in consults, treatments, discharge planning, or procedures to facilitate timely, cost-effective delivery of patient services.
• Participates in approved clinical research protocols including subject recruitment, screening, and administration of research instruments in the form of questionnaires and diagnostic interviews.
• Composes components of quality assurance and other clinical tracking activity reports.
• Prepare and/or submit program and treatment reports using quantitative and qualitative data.
• Practices in accordance with applicable laws, standards, and ethical principles.
• Maintains professional license in active and current status.
• Maintains expertise through participation in continuing education programs.
• Serves as experienced resource and patient services facilitation reference for care team members.
• Reviews and provides input into policies and procedures related to continuum of care and patient services facilitation.
• Perform other duties and/or projects as assigned.

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!