Behavioral Health Clinician (School Based)

Primary Responsibilities:

• The BHC works as an integrated member of a patient’s care team to provide consultation/assessment and bio-psychosocial evaluations on an urgent basis, support and linkage services, advocacy, education, brief interventions, counseling, to address behavioral health needs.
• BHCs provide culturally sensitive assessment, consultation, and brief interventions for psychological/psychiatric problems and/or disorders and diagnostic clarification utilizing DSM5-TR. They formulate client centered treatment plans appropriate for short term behavioral health treatment.
• BHCs collaborate with multi-disciplinary care teams, parents/guardians, community based social service agencies, and state agencies.
• BHCs provide group and family counseling where appropriate.
• BHCs at our school-based health centers at Randolph High and Tech Boston Academy provide care in an interdisciplinary setting including health center and school personnel and parents and guardians. BHCs at the main health center campus are embedded into primary care units and provide care as members of the primary care team.
• BHCs based at the main health center campus in Dorchester and the school-based health centers provide virtual and in person coverage for other sites as needed.