Behavioral Health Lead (LICSW)

The role

This is a working clinical leader role. You will provide direct patient care for 80–85% of the week and lead the RIPCPC Integrated Behavioral Health team for the remaining 15–20%. You will manage behavioral health workflows, supervision, and regulatory and payor contract matters.

What you will do

• Carry a longitudinal panel of children, adolescents, and adults for ongoing treatment.
• Deliver integrated behavioral health in the primary care setting via warm handoffs and brief interventions.
• Serve as behavioral health care manager for patients in Collaborative Care.
• Communicate psychiatric consultant recommendations to primary care clinicians.
• Conduct suicide and safety risk assessments and develop safety plans.
• Coordinate referrals to higher levels of care and community services.
• Provide clinical supervision to LCSW and LICSW clinicians.
• Provide licensure-track supervision to LCSWs per Rhode Island requirements.
• Lead weekly team huddles and caseload reviews.
• Own behavioral health workflows including referral intake and crisis response.

Required qualifications

• Master of Social Work (MSW) from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
• Active, unrestricted Rhode Island LICSW license at time of hire.
• Five or more years of post-master’s clinical experience.
• At least two years in integrated primary care, Collaborative Care, or another medical setting.
• Experience providing clinical supervision to licensed clinicians.
• Eligibility to provide licensure-track supervision under Rhode Island regulations.
• Working knowledge of behavioral health billing, payor coverage rules, and Rhode Island regulatory requirements.
• Clinical experience treating children, adolescents, and adults.
• Skill in both brief, solution-focused interventions and longitudinal, evidence-based psychotherapy.
• Experience with measurement-based care, suicide risk assessment, and safety planning.
• Comfort with electronic health records, registries, and basic performance reporting.
• Mostly sedentary work duties requiring up to thirty pounds of force occasionally.

Nice to have

• Formal Collaborative Care training and experience as a behavioral health care manager in an operating CoCM program.
• Experience launching or expanding an integrated behavioral health or Collaborative Care program.
• Pediatric and adolescent integrated behavioral health experience.
• Training in modalities such as CBT, TF-CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, or parent-child interventions.
• Experience supporting payor contracting, credentialing, delegated audits, or regulatory compliance.
• Working knowledge of the Rhode Island behavioral health system.
• Bilingual English/Spanish.

About the company

Akido builds AI-powered doctors and is an AI-native care provider. It serves 500K+ patients across California, Rhode Island, and New York.