You.

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Behavioral Health Consult.

Your compassion is tangible: whether your patient is 18 or 85, they feel it in the hand they hold. Families feel it in your prayers. Colleagues feel it in your support.

You know when to move quickly. When to sit quietly. When to laugh loudly.

Youâ™re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.

Us.

St. Maryâ™s Medical Center is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 346-bed regional medical center is in Grand Junction, one of the most beautiful places on earth. Our mission is to bring health and hope to the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, weâ™ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

We.

Together weâ™ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. Weâ™ll honor each otherâ™s dignity and surpass the standards we set. Weâ™ll encourage joy, demand safety and take pride in our integrity.

Weâ™ll laugh at each otherâ™s jokes (even the bad ones). Weâ™ll hello and high five. Weâ™ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

Weâ™re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Your day.

As a Behavioral Health Consult you need to know to:

Clinical Duties

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  • Collaborate with Rocky Mountain Health Plans staff to prioritize hospitalized patients in need of intervention, track patient outcomes, and report program goals and metrics.
  
  


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  • Collaborate with the Family Medicine Teaching Service attending faculty and chief resident to provide BH consultations to RMHP Medicaid patients, to include:
  
  


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    • Provide BH consultations and co-visits during morning walking rounds.
    
    
  
  


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    • Attend seated rounds (as necessary) to create treatment and discharge plans with the collective FMTS team.
    
    
  
  


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    • Assist in the coordination and co-facilitation of family conferences with patient,family/caregivers, and multidisciplinary team members.
    
    
  
  


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    • Coordinate with the Psychiatric Evaluation Team and FMTS teams to determine the appropriate role for Inpatient Outpatient Behavioral Health Consultant in conducting mental health assessment and crisis intervention as needed.
    
    
  
  


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    • Provide brief/focused mental health interventions and crisis management as needed during hospital admission.
    
    
  
  


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    • Provide substance use screening, referral and linkage to treatment for patients of all ages in psychiatric or substance abuse crises.
    
    
  
  


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    • Coordinate care for post-discharge follow up and connection to appropriate mental health services.
    
    
  
  


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    • Coordinate with hospital discharge planning team to ensure appropriate community referrals including referrals to shelter, housing, food resources, assisted living nursing homes, hospice, domestic violence resources, and Department of Human Services programs, including adult protective services reporting and child abuse reporting.
    
    
  
  


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    • Serves as liaison for community mental health and substance abuse providers, law enforcement, DHS providers. Community involvement to improve systems/coordination of care.
    
    
  
  


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    • Maintains a supply of resource materials to be distributed to patients as needed.
    
    
    • Provide in-home/community individual/couple/family therapy to include similar services as provided in the hospital. Ensures all work with individuals, staff, patients, and families adheres to confidentiality and HIPAA requirements.
    
    
  
  

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  • Collaborate with physicians, BH Team, and other staff at the Family Medicine Center, offering co-visits, brief consultations, and other services helpful for assisting RMHP Medicaid patients to improve health, engage more successfully with primary care services, and avoid unnecessary hospitalization readmission.
  
  

Your experience.

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

• Master's degree in or doctorate degree in a mental health discipline that is licensable in Colorado, required


• Experience, sufficient for licensure


• Provisional Colorado license, with full license required within 3 months of hire, required


• Colorado Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Clinical Social Worker, Psychologist, or Professional Counselor, preferred

Your next move.                  

Now that you know more about being a Behavioral Health Consult on our team we hope youâ™ll join us. At St. Maryâ™s Medical Center youâ™ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.