Behavioral Health Subject Matter Expert - The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence

Behavioral Health Subject Matter Expert

Remote Employment

Full-Time

Who We Are:

Constellation Quality Health is a non-profit health care quality consultancy and QIO-like Entity certified by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) founded by physicians in 1983. Headquartered in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, we offer an array of quality improvement, clinical review, audit, technical, and consulting services and solutions to improve care delivery, system performance, and patient outcomes.

What You’ll Do:

We are seeking an experienced clinician to guide the technical assistance and implementation support that we provide to hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes and outpatient practices for improving patient care and outcomes in a multi-state region.

We expect you to:

• Review provider action plans and progress reports, recommend improvement strategies and tactics, source or develop additional interventions, and provide direct consultation to providers facing barriers to improvement.
• Educate field staff on best practices and emerging issues in behavioral health care.
• Ability to interpret data, such as performance on clinical measures, and use it to guide recommendations for actions to improve results.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, including excellent interpersonal communication and teamwork skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills that include experience making presentations and conducting training sessions.

This position is contingent upon contract award and works remotely, however, some travel within the southeast region may be required. Candidates in the Southeast region are preferred.

Who You Are:

As the Behavioral Health Subject Matter Expert (SME), you will serve as a resource to field based staff who are helping providers implement evidenced based interventions for better diagnosis and treatment of depression, suicide, and substance use disorders. These interventions include proven approaches for improving follow-up to hospital and emergency department treatment for behavioral health conditions, decreasing the proportion of nursing home residents with depressive symptoms, and expanding access to screening and brief counseling for unhealthy alcohol use.

Our requirements for this role:

• Masters degree in nursing, social work, psychology, counseling or behavioral health-related field.
• Current professional license as a Registered Nurse, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Substance Abuse Counselor, Clinical Psychologist or the equivalent.
• Eight or more years of experience with adult behavioral health care in the inpatient or outpatient setting. Experience with geriatric and disadvantaged populations is preferred.
• Experience with two or more of the following includes application of evidenced-based best practices:
  • Behavioral health screening (i.e. depression, suicide risk, substance use)
  • Behavioral health integration into primary care
  • Increasing access to opioid and polysubstance overdose prevention therapies
  • Care coordination following emergency department treatment for a behavioral health condition (i.e. Caring Contracts)
  • Depression management and suicide prevention, and
  • Use of digital health tools to manage behavioral health conditions
• Knowledge of quality improvement methodologies and best practices for improving behavioral health outcomes is strongly preferred.

Why Constellation Quality Health?

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and a flexible, supportive hybrid work environment.

Equal opportunity employer of protected veterans

Equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law

Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on inquiring about, disclosing, or discussing compensation or the compensation of other applicants or employees.