BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE MANAGER – CoCM Project

ORGANIZATION

The Brookline Center for Community Mental Health is a leading Massachusetts provider of mental health care and community-based social services; a sought-after placement for training clinicians; and a trusted partner to more than 50 agencies working to improve the wellbeing of our community’s most at-risk and vulnerable populations. The Brookline Center offers outstanding, affordable care to all who need us no matter their ability to pay, helping individuals, children, and families lead healthier, safer, and fuller lives, while building a stronger community for all.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Brookline Center for Community Mental Health is seeking a behavioral health care manager to provide care coordination services to children and adolescents at partnering pediatric and family practice clinics. This will be a hybrid position with the care manager providing some hours on-site at the medical practice and some remote. The behavioral health care manager is a core member of the collaborative care team, including the medical provider, psychiatric consultant, and others. This is a unique opportunity to work with an integrated team to increase access and optimize mental health outcomes for children, adolescents, and families in the greater Boston area.

We are actively interested in ensuring that the Brookline Center for Community Mental Health represents a range of experiences and backgrounds. We welcome qualified candidates with diverse racial, cultural, multilingual, religious, class, and/or gender backgrounds, and experiences to apply.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (include but are not limited to the following):

• Support the mental health care of an assigned caseload of patients at a Primary Care Practice. Closely coordinate with the medical and other mental health providers.
• Experience working with children, adolescents and family systems.
• Utilize Measurement-based care software to screen and assess patients for common mental health and substance abuse disorders and available treatment options.
• Provide psychoeducation about common mental health and substance abuse disorders and the available treatment options.
• Systematically track treatment response and monitor patients for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.
• Facilitate referrals to evidence-based, brief, behavioral interventions.
• Coordinate regularly scheduled (usually weekly) caseload consultation with psychiatric consultants and medical team.
• Track engagement and clinical outcomes using a registry. Document encounters in the registry and use the system to identify and re-engage children and adolescents.
• Document progress and treatment recommendations in the electronic health record (EHR) and other required systems to be shared with medical providers, consulting psychiatrist, and other treating providers.
• Facilitate inclusion of families, schools, and other systems, in treatment planning to use a whole child lens when determining goals and assessing clinical outcomes.
• Identify community resources and assist in developing and updating resources for patients and families.
• Assist with grant writing, reporting, and program development as needed.
• Participate in teams, committees and/or task forces as appropriate.
• Support other innovation programming as needed.

REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrated commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment.
• Comfort level working with children, adolescents and families required.
• Comfort level working in a fast-paced environment required.
• Experience in a social service, medical, or mental health setting preferred. Familiarity with health care organizations is preferred.
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a related field OR commensurate work or lived experience.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and clinical writing skills.
• Bilingual candidates or fluency in the following languages highly desired: Spanish, Mandarin and/or Cantonese, Russian
• The proven ability to work closely with an integrated team.

Please submit your resume along with a thoughtful cover letter outlining your interest and qualifications.

HOURS/BENEFITS/REIMBURSEMENT

This is a full-time salary position. The Brookline Center offers a supportive, mission-focused work environment; professional growth opportunities; competitive salaries; and a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision insurance, pre-tax savings and retirement plans, disability and life insurance, and generous paid time off. Additional compensation will be provided for care managers providing multilingual services with preference for Spanish, Haitian-Creole, and/or Cantonese or Mandarin

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Brookline Center is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $55,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Brookline, MA 02445