Social Worker at Scappoose, OR – Scappoose, Oregon

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.

Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Competencies):

• Experience in behavioral health counseling and brief short-term therapy strategies and case management is required.
• 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.
• 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.

• Health care experience preferred.
• 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
• Languagw: Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Arabic, Korean