OHSU Family Medicine is part of the OHSU School of Medicine. OHSU Family Medicine is focused on family health. We provide preventive, primary and specialty care for you, your children, your spouse, your parents, and your grandparents. We provide all that family medicine has to offer - from maternity care through geriatrics. Family Medicine clinics are home to more than 120,000 patients every year, but despite the large number, our physicians, nurses, and other clinic staff know their patients - and their families - by name. Our patient care is among the nation's best, ranked #1 among the nation's medical school family medicine departments by U.S. News and World Report 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023. Family Medicine strongly supports the comprehensive scope to provide the highest level of care for our community. The clinical work includes all ages of life including newborn to end of life. Additionally supports patients with substance use disorders including medication-assisted treatment and gender affirming care. OHSU embraces diversity and welcomes all patients. 

 

The appointee shall provide services as assigned by the supervisor in furtherance of the university’s missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach, and public service.

 

The Behavioral Health (BH) Supervisor position is a faculty position within the Department of Family Medicine (DFM) that oversees the behavioral health clinicians integrated across three Family Medicine clinics. The Supervisor is a member of the DFM BH Leadership Team including the Director of BH Education, Director of BH Clinical Operations and the FQHC BH Supervisor. Each clinic team includes a Lead Behavioral Health Consultant who supports the local team and works under the direction of the BH Supervisor. This position requires some periodic travel as the supervisor supports BH Team Members in clinical sites at South Waterfront, Gabriel Park, and Scappoose. This individual acts as a primary point person for clinic level leadership at these three clinics as it relates to the BH service line including but not limited to changes to service delivery, programming, and staffing (onboarding and recruiting). 

This position provides PCBH clinical care as a core member of the integrated behavioral health care team within the Family Medicine at the Gabriel Park Clinic and our Sport Medicine Program. This position will provide a high degree of clinical and complex direct patient care as a Behavioral Health Consultant (BHC), it requires advanced-level generalist skills in delivering evidence-based interventions targeted to improve health and wellbeing for a large variety of patients within our Sports Medicine Team within the Department of Family Medicine.

 

We are committed to providing an open and equitable recruitment process with the goal of recognizing diverse lived experience that will contribute to the success of the organization and goals of this position. We are deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and diversity and welcome applications from candidates who will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are core values and accountability to these values helps us better serve our diverse community.

 

This position also comes with great benefits! Some highlights include:

• Comprehensive health care plans. Covered 100% for full-time employees and 88% for dependents for .9 FTE and higher.
• $25K of term life insurance provided at no cost to the employee
• Two separate above market pension plans to choose from
• Paid time off- 208 hours per year (full-time)
• Extended illness bank- 64 hours per year
• 9 paid holidays per year
• Three weeks of paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance program (up to 5k)
• Substantial Tri-met and C-Tran discounts
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Innovative Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Direct Patient Clinical Services and Documentation 60% (0.60 FTE) 

• Three days of direct patient care per week as an integrated behavioral health clinician as part of the Sport Medicine Team. This includes behavioral health interventions to sports medicine patients with anxiety, depression, behavior change needs, concussion recovery, eating disorders, insomnia, substance use disorders, and other mental health conditions. The primary care behavioral health model includes proactive patient identification (scrubbing schedules), brief interventions via same-day Warm Hand Offs, scheduled patient follow-ups, consultation to all care team members, assessments, and crisis intervention.

• Participation in behavioral health case management as part of multi-disciplinary team to address complex patient needs. This includes both short- and some long-term mental health care, and a high level of coordination with internal and community-based resources.

• Maintaining a professional presence for the clinic and actively engaging with teams and stakeholders.

• Documenting services appropriately in EHR in accordance with existing workflows to ensure continuity of care.

• Maintaining technology fluency in support of in-clinic and telehealth.

• Maintaining accessibility via department standard means (i.e., phone, pager, email)

• Maintaining appropriate professional boundaries as a part of the primary care team.

Behavioral Health Supervisor 40% (.40 FTE)

• The breakdown for this portion of FTE includes scholarly and administrative time (0.15 FTE) with a dedicated amount of time for supervisory tasks (0.25 FTE)

• Supports clinical Behavioral Health Team staff across 3 clinics: South Waterfront (3 staff), Gabriel Park (3 staff) and Scappoose (4 staff)

• Works with DFM BH Leadership team to provide guidance and a framework to BH team members and on how integrated behavioral health services are delivered within the context of community needs and clinic-level resources.

• Works with three assigned clinics and clinic leadership to ensure adherence to service excellence, ethical and compliance guidelines.

• Ensures that each clinic is appropriately staffed up to their allotted FTE. This includes ensuring the accuracy of position descriptions, screening applicants, organizing interviews and onboarding of new staff Advocates for increased staff when appropriate.

• Provides clinical support and direct supervision of all behavioral health staff across Gabriel Park, South Waterfront and Scappoose Family Medicine Primary Care clinics (10 team members total). Collaborates with and supports clinic leadership teams to address complex personnel issues, training, onboarding, and delivery of appropriate clinical care.

• Provides clinical supervision to pre-licensed BHCs in pursuit of licensure. Identifies the formal and informal clinical consultation needs of BH team members assigned as supervisees.

• Provides clinical consultation as needed and identified by BH team members to ensure appropriate clinical care. Works collaboratively with BH staff to identify supportive pathways to ensure that professional practice and growth needs are met.

• Provides recurring, regularly scheduled leadership, and support to BH Team Leads at 3 assigned FM clinics.

• Maintains capacity and knowledge base to allow cross-coverage with DFM BH Leadership team members to allow continuity of function in case of planned or unplanned absence.

• Education: Provide effective teaching to learners including medical residents, fellows, Master of Social Work Students and care team members regarding behavioral health issues, evidence-based interventions, primary care integration, and patient engagement/communication strategies.

• One of the following: PhD/PsyD or MSW/LCSW or LPC/LMFT (Oregon License required)
• Experience in behavioral health counseling, mental health assessment, substance use intervention, crisis intervention, case management.
• Demonstrated understanding of therapeutic interventions within the primary care setting, including CBT, motivation interviewing, solution and person focused interventions, ACES and the impact on overall health outcomes and health seeking behaviors.
• Demonstrated commitment to valuing diversity, equity and inclusion in the clinic and learning environment. Ability to contribute to the success of the organization through support of and seeking out diversified ideas and perspectives
• Demonstrated understanding of trauma informed and patient centered care.
• Ability to work independently utilizing critical thinking, problem solving, and time management skills.
• Skill in developing and maintaining professional relationships and navigating differing ideas about care strategies.
• Capacity to manage technology supportive of in-person and telehealth including but not limited to electronic health record, virtual meeting platforms, and pager.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of primary care behavioral health consultation, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, counseling strategies, and their application to population-based care for preventive and chronic care issues.
• Demonstrated ability to practice with minimal supervision using sound clinical judgment

• Experience as a Behavioral Health Consultant in a Primary Care setting
• Experience in educational setting with supervision of graduate students
• Understanding of Sport Medicine and/or Sports related injuries
• Understanding of patient-centered medical home and trauma informed care principles
• Interest and experience in program development, improvement, and assessment
• Language(s): Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Arabic, Korean, ASL
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WORKING CONDITIONS:  This may include such items as work schedule, work location, travel and environmental exposures such as noise, human tissues/fluids or radiation.

• Hours: Variable 40-hour M-F work week with possible weekends as needed
• Work location is both in-clinic and remote with majority of time in-clinic
• Frequent interruptions in an environment of frequent change and fluctuations
• May be exposed to body fluids, tissue, possible radiation exposure, and infectious processes
• Able to utilize office equipment including computer, smartphone, and pager in-clinic and remote
• Some travel may be required

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & EQUIPMENT USAGE:  This describes the physical requirements necessary to perform the essential functions of this position.  Example: Ability to carry and lift up to 50 pounds. 

• Ability to stand for four continuous hours a day
• Standing: On concrete, vinyl, or carpeting up to 4 hours per day and intermittently
• Sitting: Chair or stool continuous up to 8 hours per day and intermittently

Oregon Health & Science University values a diverse and culturally competent workforce. We are proud of our commitment to being an equal opportunity, affirmative action organization that does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of any protected class status, including disability status and protected veteran status. Individuals with diverse backgrounds and those who promote diversity and a culture of inclusion are encouraged to apply. To request reasonable accommodation contact the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Department at 503-494-5148 or aaeo@ohsu.edu.