Roles & Responsibilities
Provide Clinical Guidance and / or Direct Care for Members with Acute and Chronic Behavioral Health needs to include:
- Guide behavioral health treatment of a specified cohort of behavioral health patients, through shared care with other behavioral health clinicians and the primary care provider, using a modified Collaborative Care Model
- Provide interdisciplinary collaboration to make recommendations for the successful management of high risk, high utilizing members with co-occurring behavioral health concerns, including but not limited to: screening, therapeutic interventions, approaches to communication, medication interventions
- Provide education and ongoing consultative support to on and offsite providers related to medical management for BH population
- Provide direct patient care to members requiring evaluation and access to psychiatry direct care to include provision of diagnosis; recommendations for treatment; evaluation of treatment plan; evaluation of treatment adherence etc.
- Provide tele-psychiatry to appropriate members
- Provide peer to peer consultations as needed for successful management of member care
- Support with Transitional Care Management, Emergency Department diversion and Crisis Intervention
- Outreach to local inpatient and outpatient mental health providers, when needed, to facilitate communication and care coordination
- Conduct post discharge visits for members discharging from inpatient psychiatric admissions
- Perform clinical outreach to local inpatient and outpatient mental health providers, when needed, to facilitate communication and care coordination review as needed for high-risk members
- Advise and assist with management of behavioral health medications, including long acting injectables (LAIs)
- Support with medication reconciliation especially post ED encounter and post hospitalization encounter
- Provide peer to peer consultations as needed for successful management of member care
- Provide tele-psychiatry to members, as appropriate, e.g., enrolled in home-based care, or in post-acute care settings
- Support Addiction Treatment with Emphasis on Medication-Assisted Treatment
- Support the interdisciplinary care team in providing ambulatory-based interventions for common substance use disorders, through us of medications such as buprenorphine and naltrexone
- Participate in developing clinical protocols for Medication-Assisted Treatment
- Provide direct patient care for a subset of complex patients with substance use disorders
- Assist in identifying and transitioning members who require a higher level of care for substance use disorders
Candidate Qualifications
- Licensed and Board-Certified Psychiatrist in the applicable state
- Experience with addiction medicine preferred
- DEA
- BLS certification required
- Mission-Driven to serve the underserved
- Passion for teaching primary care providers
- Strong focus on customer service is required
- Work without ego, and thoughtfully build successful relationships with team members and our external partners
- Experience in population health management is preferred
- Experience working with psycho-socially and medically complex Medicaid beneficiaries is strongly preferred
- Must be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team with constant collaboration within and across provider teams
- Experience and comfort utilizing EMR
- Problem-solving and the ability to be creative in those solutions
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- This position is in-office
Jake Brandt