# Behavioral Health Specialist Requires LCSW, LPC or LMFT

**Company**: Oak Street Health
**Location**: Colorado Springs, CO
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $60,522.00 - $129,615.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Behavioral Health Specialist at Oak Street Health provides care management services and evidence-based short-term psychotherapy to patients with behavioral health needs.

The role involves collaborating with primary care teams to identify patients who require behavioral health services, screening and assessing patients for common mental health and substance use disorders, developing care plans, and providing short-term counseling and evidence-based treatments.

Key responsibilities include:

- Collaborating with primary care teams to identify patients who require behavioral health services

- Screening and assessing patients for common mental health and substance use disorders

- Developing care plans and providing or facilitating referrals to Oak Street's psychiatric consultant and/or external resources

- Providing short-term counseling and evidence-based treatments

- Coordinating care with Oak Street's psychiatric consultant, including warm handoffs for telehealth visits and collaboration on care plans

- Developing relationships with primary care teams and consistently communicating changes in behavioral health care plans

- Accurate and timely documentation of patient encounters and counseling sessions in Oak Street's electronic medical record

- Participating in regional and organizational efforts to advance Oak Street's Behavioral Health Program through workshops, feedback sessions, and surveys

Requirements:

- Master's Degree in the field of mental health counseling/healing arts required from an accredited school (Social Work, Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, etc.)

- Highest clinical level of license (or local equivalent)

- Experience with screening for common mental health and/or substance use disorders

- Experience with assessment and treatment planning for common mental health and/or substance use disorders

- Familiarity with brief, structured intervention techniques (e.g., Motivational Interviewing, Behavioral Activation, Problem Solving, Cognitive Behavioral, etc.)

- US work authorization

Preferred qualifications:

- Proficiency in providing brief, structured intervention techniques (e.g., Motivational Interviewing, Behavioral Activation, Cognitive Behavioral)

- Working knowledge of differential diagnoses of common mental health and/or substance use disorders

- Proficient PC skills

The typical pay range for this role is $60,522.00 - $129,615.00 per year. This position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources.

## Skills

### Required
- LCSW
- LPC
- LMFT
- Mental Health Counseling
- Substance Use Disorders
- Motivational Interviewing
- Behavioral Activation
- Cognitive Behavioral

### Nice to have
- Brief Structured Intervention Techniques
- Differential Diagnoses

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