Behavioral Health Consultant

Behavioral Health Consultant

US-OR-Portland

Requisition ID: 2026-40397
Position Category: Hospital/Clinic Support
Job Type: AFSCME union represented
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Posting Department: Family Medicine East Portland
Posting Salary Range: $44.02 -$60.45 per hour with offer based on experience, education, and internal equity
Posting FTE: 1.00
Posting Schedule: Monday-Friday
Posting Hours: 8:00am-4:30pm
HR Mission: Healthcare
Drug Testable: Yes

Department Overview

The Behavioral Health Consultant (BHC) position is a behavioral health clinician who operates as a core member of the integrated care team within the Family Medicine at Richmond clinic.

This position involves a high degree of clinical complexity and requires advanced-level generalist skill in delivering evidence-based interventions targeted to improve health and wellbeing for a large variety of patients across the lifespan. The BHC position serves as an advocate and champion for integrated behavioral health within the primary care setting. 

 

OHSU Family Medicine at East Portland is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) located on the Adventist Hospital campus. East Portland joins our existing health center, Richmond Clinic, in providing excellent care to Portland’s most vulnerable communities. Some applicants may qualify to apply for student loan repayment due to FQHC designation.  

 

We are committed to providing an open and equitable recruitment process with the goal of recognizing diverse lived experience that will contribute to the success of the organization and goals of this position. We are deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and diversity and welcome applications from candidates who will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core values and accountability to these values helps us better serve our diverse community.

Function/Duties of Position

Direct Patient Services and Documentation:

• Provide primary care behavioral health interventions including proactive patient identification (scrubbing), brief interventions via same-day Warm Hand Offs, scheduled patient follow-ups, consultation to all care team members, assessments, and crisis intervention.
• Participate in behavioral health case management as part of multi-disciplinary team to address complex patient needs appropriately. This includes both short- and long-term involvement and a high level of coordination with internal and community-based resources.
• Maintains a professional presence for the clinic and actively engages with teams and stakeholders.
• Documents services appropriately in EHR in accordance with existing workflows to ensure continuity of care.
• Maintains technology fluency in support of in-clinic and telehealth.
• Maintains accessibility via department standard means (phone, pager, email, etc) 
• Maintains appropriate professional boundaries as a part of the primary care team.

Teaching

• Provide effective teaching to all clinic learners including medical residents and care team members regarding behavioral health issues, evidence-based interventions, primary care integration, and patient engagement/communication strategies. 

Quality and Leadership

• Active engagement in development, implementation, and maintenance of related clinic quality metrics, as needed.
• Providing behavioral health participation in clinic-wide committees and workgroups.

Required Qualifications

• A Master’s Social Work (MSW) required.  Health care experience preferred.
• Effective January 1, 2011, Certificate of Clinical Social Work Associate (CSWA) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) required for employees who practice clinical social work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Training in Primary Care Behavioral Health
• Experience as a Behavioral Health Consultant in a Primary Care setting.
• Experience as a clinician in primary care or health care setting.
• Experience in clinical teaching as a field instructor with social work students
• Understanding of patient-centered medical home principles.
• Interest and experience in program development, improvement, and assessment 
• Experience in behavioral health counseling, brief short-term therapy strategies, and case management.
• Demonstrated commitment to valuing diversity, equity and inclusion in the clinic and learning environment. 
• Ability to contribute to the success of the organization through support of and seeking out diversified ideas and perspectives.
• Demonstrated understanding of trauma informed and patient centered care principles.
• Ability to work independently utilizing critical thinking, problem solving, and time management skills.
• Skill in developing and maintaining professional relationships quickly.
• Capacity to manage technology supportive of in-person and telehealth including but not limited to electronic health record, virtual meeting platforms, and pager.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of primary care behavioral health consultation including assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, cognitive-behavioral counseling strategies and their application to population-based care for preventive and chronic care issues.
• Demonstrated ability to practice with minimal supervision using sound clinical judgment.
• Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Arabic, Korean

Additional Details

• Hours: Monday-Friday; 8am-4:30pm 
• Work location is in-clinic with some opportunities for remote work.
• Frequent interruptions in an environment of frequent change and fluctuations.
• May be exposed to body fluids, tissue, possible radiation exposure, and infectious processes.
• Able to utilize office equipment including computer, smartphone, and pager in-clinic and remote.
• Some travel may be required.
• Standing: On concrete, vinyl, or carpeting up to 4 hours per day and intermittently.
• Sitting: Chair or stool continuous up to 8 hours per day and intermittently.
• Changing Position: Intermittently, as needed.
• Walking: Intermittently up to 8 hours per day on concrete, vinyl, and carpeting.
• Bending: From the waist and knees, frequently throughout the day.
• Reaching/Handling: Fine manipulation, repetitive, gross motor requiring full ROM in upper extremeties, including overhead reaching.
• Twisting: All ROM required, intermittent periods, throughout the day.
• Climbing: Staircase, intermittently throughout the day.

Posted 7/16 at 9:20am

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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