Concert Health is building America’s best behavioral health medical group. Through Collaborative Care, an evidence-based model for treating depression and anxiety in primary care settings, Concert makes it easy for primary care and women’s health physicians to deliver high-quality behavioral health care and improve clinical outcomes. Concert’s turnkey behavioral health services, which include an expert clinical team and a powerful technology platform, are available through partnerships with medical groups and health systems.

What We Offer

• Weekly Individual and/or group supervision with assigned supervisor
• Student seminars to promote peer learning, collaboration and skill growth
• Individualized troubleshooting and support
• Skill development through specific learning plan aligned with core competencies of social work education
• 100% Remote Internship

Responsibilities/Learning Opportunities

• Engage in training to understand and be able to operate multiple technologies and system platforms utilized to support the best remote patient care
• Carry a small caseload of patients and engage in a variety of tasks related to the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients in the collaborative care model, similar to the role of a Collaborative Care Clinician (CCC)
• Supports and closely coordinates mental health care with the patient’s primary care provider and (when appropriate) other service providers
• Screens and assesses patients for common mental health and substance abuse disorders using PHQ9, GAD7, or other tools as required
• Monitors patients for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects/complications, with a goal of 50% or 10-point reduction in symptoms
• Supports psychotropic medication management prescribed by PCPs, focusing on treatment adherence, side effects and other complications, and treatment effectiveness
• Tracks patient follow-up and clinical outcomes using a registry, records encounters in the registry, and uses the system to identify and re-engage patients
• Plans specific mutual self-management goals, objectives, and interventions with action-oriented patients
• Participates in regularly scheduled caseload consultations with psychiatric consultants
• Build and enhance knowledge about case management, brief interventions/ evidence-based models of treatment, medical social work, and integrated care
• Facilitates care plan changes for patients who are not improving, including changes in medications or psychosocial treatments or appropriate referrals for additional services
• Documents patient progress and treatment recommendations in the electronic health record so they can be easily shared with primary care providers, the psychiatric consultant, and other treating providers
• Completes relapse prevention plan with patients who are in remission
• Educates patients about mental health/substance abuse disorders/treatment options
• Establishes mutually agreeable care management plan with the care team and patient/family
• Review patient care in individual and group supervision with Field Instructor/supervisor
• Assist with resources, referrals, and engagement for patients as needed
• Attend student didactic seminars and various trainings

Qualifications

• Student is a second year student and in good standing with their University
• University is a partner of Concert Health and appropriate documentation/affiliation agreements have been submitted
• Interested in Collaborative Care
• Practicum is at least 400 hours
  

Selection Process

• Milestone One: Qualified students will be scheduled for a 30-minute virtual interview to discuss their experience, qualifications, and an overview of Concert Health’s Collaborative Care Model.
• Milestone Two: Qualified students who pass Milestone One will be scheduled for a 45-minute virtual interview with clinical leaders.
• Estimated Start Date: May 2025.

Concert Health is a diverse and inclusive Equal Opportunity Employer; we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind in our culture. We are dedicated to providing a safe, equitable, respectful, and supportive work environment to all without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, genetics, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of work, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. All Concert Health employees are expected to comply with this policy. If you share our vision and are good at what you do, come as you are. You are welcome here.