Director of Behavioral Health Services

6 days ago


Erie, Pennsylvania, United States Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Full time
Job Summary:

The Director of Behavioral Health is responsible for providing assessment, triage, and case management to students, faculty, and staff. This includes preparing and presenting the curriculum for Introduction to Behavioral Health and chairing the Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT).

Key Responsibilities:
  • Creates a vision for faculty development within the context of the Planning, Assessment, Accreditation, and Research.
  • Conducts assessments for students, faculty, and staff who experience psychological or personal life dysfunction or academic challenges.
  • Facilitates the referral process to a community treatment provider for students, faculty, and staff.
  • Accompanies and awaits with persons referred to the Millcreek Community Hospital for emergency psychiatric examination.
  • Case manages students, faculty, and staff who are enrolled in a treatment modality or agree to behavioral monitoring for sobriety.
  • Remains on-call during and after office hours to address behavioral emergencies, in consultation with Risk Management and Security.
  • Constructs, updates, facilitates, and conducts lectures in the Introduction to Behavioral Health (IBH) course.
  • Facilitates Problem-Based Learning year one groups on an as-needed basis.
  • Interviews standardized patient applicants for behavioral screening.
  • Writes behavioral health case scenarios for standardized patients for the Mental Status Examination practical experience in the IBH course.
  • Chairs the Behavioral Intervention Team committee meetings, maintains, and distributes minutes of meetings.
  • Maintains a working relationship with community mental health agencies, private psychiatry, substance abuse agencies, and other social service agencies.
  • Presents Behavioral Health services at student orientation.
  • Provides consultation to faculty regarding student concerns.
  • Participates in training/preparing students for humanistic portion of the Performance Evaluation.
  • Participates in the remediation procedure for students having failed the Performance Evaluation.
  • Processes referrals to Physicians Health Programs (PHP) and Secundum Artem Reaching Pharmacists with Help (S.A.R.P.H.) agencies for evaluation and manages potential monitoring through those agencies.
  • Attends regularly scheduled meetings with administrative staff/supervisor.
  • Directs the Behavioral Health Module for students on rotation at MCH/Senior Living Center.
  • Participates in other programming as requested and expected.
Requirements:
  • Knowledge of psychiatric diagnostic criteria to realize differential diagnoses.
  • Competent with the utilization of psychological methodologies.
  • Ability to review the work of others to ensure conformance to standards.
  • Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
  • Confident in handling ambiguity and fluid situations and have an abundance of common sense and pragmatism.
  • Ability to work with individuals at all levels in the organization.
  • Excellent skills in accounting, finance, and business procedures.
  • Organizational skills; must be accurate and attentive to detail.
  • Ability to maintain an established work schedule; assess and prioritize multiple tasks and demands.
  • Interpersonal skills to include tact and diplomacy.
  • Organizational and planning skills, including attention to detail and follow-through.
  • Strong computer literacy and accurate data entry skills.
  • Maintain confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships.
  • Flexibility to accept other duties needed/assigned for the department needs.
  • Strong leadership skills and good judgment at the Administrative level.
  • Be open-minded, patient, creative, enthusiastic, understanding, and a team player.
  • Ability to work cooperatively and collegially with others.
  • Ability to report to work as scheduled, ready to devote full attention and energy to the important work of LECOM.
  • Ability to accept work directives from managers and supervisors in a respectful and cooperative manner.
Qualifications:

Education and experience equivalent to a Pennsylvania state licensed psychologist with a doctoral degree in psychology or field qualifying for a state license in psychology from an accredited institution. Five (5) years' experience of counseling practice with teaching experience at a college and/or graduate level education preferred.



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