Neighborhood Health seeks to hire Behavioral Health Counselor for Nashville. Using traditional counseling skills in an innovative way, Behavioral Health Counselor provide integrated care using brief short-term, solution-based interventions (e.g., 15 or 20-minutes in duration) with our medical and dental patients.

Behavioral Health Counselor provide critical services to enhance the wellbeing of our patients and are a crucial part of our care team. By building rapport and doing recurring interventions with patients, Behavioral Health Counselor help patients adhere to their treatment plans. In this way, they help patients improve their health status and quality of life. Behavioral Health Counselor also play a key role in helping patients address depression and anxiety through these same brief short-term, solution-based interventions – and work with the care team (doctors, nurse practitioners, medical assistants, etc.) to address psychosocial stressors that patients may be experiencing. Other organizations using an integrated model include Cherokee Health Systems and other community health centers.

Behavioral Health Counselors do not provide traditional counseling or ongoing therapy. Rather, Neighborhood Health refers patients to other external providers for these services.

Neighborhood Health is an innovative network of 10 community health center in Nashville and Lebanon, Tennessee. We provide comprehensive primary care, integrated behavioral health, and dental services to almost 30,000 patients. Our patients primarily include immigrants, residents of public housing, individuals experiencing homelessness, and person living with addiction. As a federally qualified health center, we provide care without regard to health insurance or a patient's ability to pay. We also strive to improve our Patient Centered Medical Home model to ensure all patients get the right high-quality care, at the right place and the right time.