[Hiring] Virtual Behavioral Health Counselor @The Cigna Group

Role Description

The Behavioral Health Consultant is responsible for counseling individuals, groups or families to diagnose and treat mental health disorders. Responsibilities include:

• Conduct regular appointments with clients who wish to converse with a mental health professional
• Establish positive and trusting relationships with clients
• Screen and assess patients for common mental health and substance use disorders, leveraging evidence based tools
• Provide patient education about common mental health and substance use disorders, as well as available evidenced based treatments
• Implement various treatments and protocols to provide guidance and appropriately address client situations using evidenced based techniques
• Continually assess client situations and provide the proper ongoing treatments
• Educate and involve family members or other loved ones in the treatment process when necessary
• When required, partner with plan and community resources to make referrals to outside sources or agencies that can augment or better address their specific needs
• Coordinate care after an acute event including emergency department presentation or inpatient admission in collaboration with the patient’s provider and population health team
• Coordinate with patient’s care plan team in order to ensure holistic care
• Maintain the strictest confidentiality of each and every client situation
• Maintain all required licenses and the appropriate insurance
• Participate in clinical team meetings as assigned

Qualifications

• LCSW, LPC or LMFT
• Current, unrestricted license(s) in Arizona
• Must have an Independent License
• Must have at least 2 years of therapy experience
• Experience with population management
• Experience working with First Responders
• MHFA and Emergency Responder & Public Safety Clinical Certification is preferred; but willing to work with new hire to obtain this after hire

Requirements

This role will be virtual (local to Tucson AZ) while the health center is under construction.

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.