Position Summary
The Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Psychotherapist provides brief, evidence-based behavioral health services to pediatric patients through a collaborative care model integrated with pediatric primary care. This role is fully virtual and supports children, adolescents, and their families through telehealth while working closely with pediatric primary care providers, behavioral health teams, and psychiatric consultants. The psychotherapist focuses on delivering short-term interventions, engaging caregivers as clinically appropriate, coordinating care, monitoring patient progress, and supporting group-based behavioral health programming.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborative Care Delivery

• Provide brief, structured psychotherapy services through telehealth for pediatric patients referred by pediatric primary care
• Conduct behavioral health assessments and develop care plans in collaboration with pediatric primary care providers, psychiatric consultants, patients, and caregivers as appropriate
• Deliver evidence-based interventions focused on symptom reduction, emotional regulation, behavioral functioning, and improved daily functioning within a short-term treatment framework
• Monitor patient progress and adjust treatment plans as clinically indicated
• Participate in regular case review with psychiatric consultants to support treatment planning and medication recommendations for referring providers
• Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings and collaborative case discussions

Care Coordination and Population Management

• Manage a panel of pediatric patients receiving collaborative care services and track progress and follow-up needs
• Coordinate care between pediatric primary care providers, behavioral health teams, schools, community resources, and specialty behavioral health services when clinically appropriate
• Support referrals to traditional behavioral health services or higher levels of care when needed
• Provide follow-up contacts and bridge appointments as needed to support continuity of care, family engagement, and treatment adherence

Integration with Pediatric Primary Care Teams

• Collaborate closely with pediatric primary care providers and clinic staff to support integrated behavioral health care
• Provide behavioral health guidance to pediatric primary care teams when appropriate

Group Facilitation

• Participate in the rotation of facilitating Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) therapeutic groups delivered virtually, including groups tailored to youth or caregivers as needed

Documentation and Quality Improvement

• Maintain timely and accurate documentation in the electronic medical record in accordance with organizational standards
• Track patient outcomes and support reporting and quality improvement initiatives associated with collaborative care services
• Contribute to ongoing program improvement efforts related to access, patient engagement, clinical outcomes, and family-centered care

This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.

Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation’s most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers.

The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That’s why we offer support in the various components of our team’s well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.  

        Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is

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        weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information,

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