Integrated Behavioral Health Specialist

• Accepts responsibility and accountability for achievement of optimal patient outcomes within their scope of practice
• Adheres to all the University of Kansas Health system policies, procedures, and standards and complies with the Corporate Compliance program
• Accepts calls as required by position and department expectations
• Performs job specific responsibilities and demonstrates accountability for own actions and decisions
• Acquires and maintains knowledge and competence related to the expectations of their position and practices within their scope
• Brings ideas and concerns to supervisor and participates in department decision making
• Completes psychosocial assessments of patient/family situations as needed including social, psychological, emotional, financial, and other socioeconomic factors
• Identifies and utilizes all relevant information related to patient’s current condition(s) to assess the patient’s psychosocial situation accurately and thoroughly
• Responsible for crisis intervention, problem solving, brief solution-focused interventions, cognitive behavioral therapy, and self-management support for referred patients
• Participates in team huddles and meetings among the care team and clinic(s)
• Works collaboratively, cooperatively, and independently as a member of the clinical care team
• Provides strategic and goal-orientated sessions with patients focusing on brief solution-focused interventions
• Assists patients and/or their families in obtaining community behavioral health referrals
• Follows-up on patient referrals to ensure the patient has received the needed services
• Responsible for telephone call follow-up for high-risk patients on caseload, especially depressed patients
• Recognizes the importance of cultural diversity, age/developmental level, and respects individual preferences
• Responsible for development of exemplary working relationships with patients, their families, and representatives
• Facilitates patient and family education and promotes continuity of care to achieve optimal patient outcomes
• Advocates for patient’s rights to self-determination unless a patient’s action or goals pose a serious, foreseeable, and imminent risk to themselves or others
• Monitors cognitive functioning of patients
• Reviews the patient plan of care with the multi-disciplinary team
• Documents in the medical record (EMR) and verbally communicates with the care team to coordinate interventions and facilitate continuity of care
• Demonstrates knowledge of community-based social services and resources in the metropolitan and other key areas of the patient population
• Identifies key social and environmental factors in patient’s lives including resource needs, stressors, and interpersonal problems
• Responsible for follow-up on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) for patient’s needs such as (but not limited to): transportation, social isolation, prescription assistance, health care costs, housing cost
• Maintains a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic environment for patients and families in accordance with The University of Kansas Health System standards
• Maintains clinical Social Work licensure and CEU’s
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department

• Master's Degree in Social Work
• Experience in a health care setting, integrated primary care environment behavioral health or social service agency
• Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker(LSCSW) - State Board of Behavioral Sciences Kansas or Missouri

1 or more years Experience