Intensive Outpatient Behavioral Health Counselor
Austin
Overview:
We offer a hybrid work model for this position, allowing you to work both from an approved off-site location and at our primary office or multiple locations as needed.
As an integrated member of a holistic care team, the IOT BHC in the Addictions Recovery/MAT Program will workwith addiction medicine, primary care, and other specialty providers, to assist in providing trauma-informed care
for patients with complex needs. Utilizing a harm reduction approach, the IOT BHC will provide evidence based
behavioral health and substance use interventions, to meet the patients' goals around their relationship with
substances and alcohol. To improve overall wellness and quality of life, the IOT BHC will assess patients'
readiness for change, along with the emotional and psychosocial issues, which often co-occur with substance and
alcohol use disorders. The IOT BHC will work closely with the patients' integrated team members to address a
multitude of the patients' medical, behavioral health, and substance/alcohol use issues. In a rapid-paced, community health clinic, this includes response to crisis episodes, identification of DSM-5 diagnoses, andutilization of appropriate interventions for symptoms including, but not limited to, anxiety, psychosis, depression, PTSD, and substance and alcohol use disorders. The IOT BHC-AR will provide support through the
continuum of care, based on consideration of individual recovery goals, family support and reunification, creation
of healthy support systems, and coordinate with team members to assist patients' stabilization around their
substance and alcohol use, with consideration of complex medical and mental health conditions. Harm
reduction, overdose prevention and response education, will also be a necessary requirement of the IOT BHC.
Responsibilities:
- Provide assessments, screening, and intervention services as an essential member of the interdisciplinary care
patient behavioral health that is primarily affected by patients’ substance and alcohol use.
- Consult and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to provide integrated on-site care, by counselor
care/ services for patients with MH/substance use disorders, with high proportion of caseloads on medications for
treatment of alcohol and opioid use disorders (MAT/MOUD).
- Provide trauma-informed, person-centered care, with harm reduction approach, within collaborative addiction
- Provide psychoeducation around recovery models, overdose prevention, and harm reduction to patients and
- Serve all patients who have been scheduled/referred to the AR/MAT Department and maintain low barriers to
Visits may be in-person, telehealth, co-visits, walk-in, scheduled, or as requested by another team within
SEHWC.
- Utilize current knowledge of access to local and online recovery resources to provide clients with broad variety of
- Collaborate with the care team to provide warm hand-offs, and referrals to appropriate level of addiction
- Develop holistic patient-centered recovery plans, that support patient needs, to include basic, psychiatric, social,
- Utilize appropriate evidence-based non-pharmacologic BH/SUD treatment modalities and interventions based on
other appropriate modalities.
- Attend patient care huddles, meetings, patient conferences, or planning sessions. These may be related to
- Ensure all tasks provided and associated with patient care, patient administrative processes and related duties
Standard Operating Procedures and CommUnityCare Policies and Procedures.
- Maintain all licensure and/or certification requirements for continuing education and best practices.
Qualifications:
Education:
Master's Degree Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or related field. Required
Professional Experience:
Two (2) years of clinical experience in mental health Required
One (1) year of that experience in a primary care clinic, SUD/COPSD treatment services, community psychiatric, or other intensive care setting. Preferred
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