Behavioral Health Lead (LICSW)

The role

This working clinical leader role involves 80–85% direct patient care and 15–20% leadership. You will manage a longitudinal patient panel and lead the integrated behavioral health team through supervision and program management.

What you will do

• Carry a longitudinal panel of children, adolescents, and adults for ongoing treatment.
• Deliver integrated behavioral health in primary care 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.
• Lead weekly team huddles and caseload reviews.
• Manage behavioral health workflows, reporting, and regulatory compliance.

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

Rhode Island Primary Care Physician’s Corporation (RIPCPC) is the largest independent provider association of primary and pediatric care in the state. It joined Akido Labs in 2023, becoming a key east coast hub for healthcare innovation.