Collaborative Care Integrated Mental Health Therapist - Liberty Lake

About the job

MultiCare Rockwood Clinic in Liberty Lake is hiring a full-time Collaborative Care Integrated Mental Health Therapist (IMHT). The therapist works with limited supervision on a multidisciplinary team built into the primary care clinic, alongside a psychiatric consultant and primary care provider, using the Collaborative Care model and evidence-based interventions to reduce symptoms and improve patient outcomes.

Rockwood Clinic, among the largest outpatient diagnostic and treatment centers in the region, has more than 350 physicians and providers in 50 specialties and several primary and urgent care locations serving eastern Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana. It sees more than 160,000 patient visits a year.

What you'll do

• Assess patients' symptoms and build a treatment plan tailored to each patient's needs
• Screen patients for common behavioral health disorders with tools such as the PHQ9, GAD7 and Columbia Suicide Risk Assessment, or others as required
• Monitor patients for changes in clinical symptoms and for treatment side effects or complications, aiming to reduce symptoms
• Support management of psychotropic medications prescribed by PCPs, with attention to adherence, side effects and other complications, and effectiveness
• Track follow-up and clinical outcomes in a registry and use it to identify and re-engage patients
• Help change care plans for patients who aren't improving, including medication or psychosocial treatment changes or referrals for more services
• Manage behavioral health crises as they come up in the primary care setting
• Provide flexible behavioral health care to patients both on and off your caseload, by scheduled appointment or right away through warm handoffs during patients' medical visits with their primary care providers
• Independently provide assessments, treatment and care planning and psychosocial therapy to a diverse population of preventive, acute care and chronic disease management patients, drawing on a range of treatment models
• Document treatment and communication to department standards and keep up with community resources to link clients to services and advocate for their needs

What you need

• A master's degree from an accredited school in counseling, social work, marriage and family therapy or a related field
• Status as a mental health professional holding one of these credentials: Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) or an independent clinical social work license (LICSW)
• At least two years of experience in a behavioral health setting

Schedule

• Day shift, Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm
• Full-time, 1.0 FTE

Benefits

• A possible sign-on bonus
• A possible relocation bonus
• Medical, dental and retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Tuition assistance, residencies, fellowships and career development
• Code Lavender and Employee Assistance Programs for well-being support
• Resource groups and outreach programs