Behavioral Health Case Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : $70,000 to $80,000 annually based on experience

Example Schedule :

Monday : 11 : 30 AM - 7 : 30 PM

Tuesday : 11 : 00 AM - 7 : 00 PM

Wednesday : 10 : 00 AM - 6 : 00 PM

Thursday : 11 : 00 AM - 7 : 00 PM

Friday : 9 : 30 AM - 5 : 30 PM

There is some flexibility, but preferably one night until 7 : 30 PM, two nights until 7 : 00 PM, one night until 6 : 00 PM, and Friday until 5 : 30 PM. You can pick work remotely on Fridays if desired.

Your time will be spent supporting practices and will require you be on-site at the following location :

• 1600 Chapel Ave W #100, Cherry Hill Township, NJ 08002

About Fort Health :

Fort Health  is a mental health company that is on a mission to “Opening more paths to better care for more families”. We're all about making a real difference in the lives of children and adolescents. With a whopping 50% of kids in the US missing out on mental health care, we're determined to change that statistic. And with a market size of over $50 billion, we're not just dreaming big - we're making it happen!

Our vision? Picture this : a world where every child has access to the support they need to thrive mentally and emotionally. With the help of our amazing partners, like the  Child Mind Institute , we're creating a one-of-a-kind support system that combines digital tools with virtual clinicians. Because at Fort Health, we believe “we're stronger together”.

About the Role :

We know that clinicians are the backbone of our company. Everything we do incorporates a clinicians’ mindset so that we can provide them with the best job experience, so that they can provide our patients with the best treatment. The collaborative care model is an innovative approach to partnering with the patient, their family, pediatrician, and a psychiatric consultant to target mental health concerns in the primary care setting based on a population-based approach.

As part of our collaborative care team, you will be an integral member of an integrated multidisciplinary team that is responsible for delivering high-quality, evidenced-based mental health care for children, adolescents and their families. You will be responsible for supporting and coordinating care for a caseload of patients with the primary care provider, consulting psychiatrist, and potentially other mental health providers and educational professionals. You will build relationships with the primary care providers and support facilitation of referrals. You will also provide 1 : 1 brief psychosocial interventions and coaching sessions with patients, families and caregivers, and track the patient’s symptoms and progress with validated measures. The behavioral healthcare manager works with the collaborative care team to provide personalized, holistic treatment plans for each family. The behavioral healthcare manager goes through a training program created and led by the AIMS center at the University of Washington, the leading organization in implementing the collaborative care model. Lastly, we are looking for someone who wants to be a part of a growing healthcare startup that is focused on broadening access to affordable, high-quality mental health care for children and their families!

In this role, you will :

What we are looking for :

Licensed independently to practice  Minimum 1-year of direct clinical experience working with children, adolescents and their families (e.g., ages 4-24 years old) Experience and training in delivering brief psychosocial evidence-based treatments (e.g., CBT, problem solving treatment, behavioral activation, motivational interviewing) Experience with care coordination   Preferred experience working in a team-based healthcare setting  Strong experience with screening for common mental health disorders and symptom assessment with children and adolescents Working knowledge of differential diagnosis of common mental health disorders.  Strong skills in engaging parents and children, developing appropriate treatment planning, and ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in a team setting Experience using measurement-based care tools (e.g., PHQ-9, GAD-7, SCARED, etc.) Excellent verbal and written communication skills Desire to work with and learn from some of the top child mental health experts in the field

Why join us?

Competitive compensation package  Generous paid time off including paid company holidays, mental health days 1 Paid week of company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year's Day  Ability to be part of a startup and help build a new treatment model Collaborative and supportive mission-oriented work environment