LifeLong Medical Care is looking for a Behavioral Health Core Faculty to join our Family Medicine Residency team. The core faculty Develops and implements the behavioral health curriculum in collaboration
with the Residency Faculty Psychiatrist, consistent with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) program requirements for residency training in Family Medicine.

About us:

As a Federally Qualified Health Center in Northern California with over 42 years of dedicated service to the community, LifeLong serves over 60,000 patients in the East Bay Area's socio-economically underserved regions. We provide medical, dental, behavioral health, and school-based services at 16 primary care sites across Oakland, Berkeley, and West Contra Costa County. From opening a residential respite program for homeless persons discharged from hospital to offering free COVID testing to the community, we are innovative and responsive to our times' social and medical needs. We provide an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and with which our patients can identify. To this end, we seek candidates who reflect the diversity of the East Bay communities we serve. To learn more, we encourage you to apply!

Benefits:

We offer a competitive salary: $98k-$119k annually, sign-on bonus, and excellent benefits: medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, dependent and domestic partner coverage, 403(b) retirement savings plan, and loan repayment programs. LifeLong is a qualified site for federal and state loan repayment programs (HPSA score is 16). Acceptance rates may vary year to year based on funding levels and the number of applicants.

We're passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

LifeLong Medical Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Primary Job Duties: These include but are not limited to the following areas:

Resident Education:

Create a longitudinal educational plan, in collaboration with the residency psychiatrist, to deliver a comprehensive behavioral health (BH) curriculum to the family medicine residents. This includes didactic sessions on BH topics and designing BH clinical experiences and workshops on patient-doctor communication.
• Develop and implement programs to teach medical interviewing skills to Family Medicine Residents. Give lectures, observe or videotape residents interviewing patients, and assist residents in evaluating and improving their interviewing techniques.
• Precept Family Medicine Residents in family medicine clinic including direct observation to give feedback on doctor-patient relationship skills, health behavior change, coaching, motivational interviewing.
• Precept residents during therapy clinical time.

• Assist the Residency Psychiatrist in coordinating the schedule and educational materials associated with the BH rotational blocks

Resident Wellness:

• Support the personal exploration of integrating oneself with a developing professional identity of a healer responsible to patients, community, colleagues, and the standards of the profession.
• Lead resident well-being programs such as co-facilitation of Resident Balint Groups. Develops and maintains a longitudinal and comprehensive Wellness Curriculum for Family Medicine Residents and Faculty, including but not limited to the following:

1. Surveys/evaluations of wellness
2. Resident and faculty individual wellness plans
3. Advises on coping and resiliency strategies for individual residents
4. Chairs the residency Program Wellness Committee.

• Offers periodic check-ins with residents on their personal wellness plans and helps coordinate linkage to external support (i.e. EAP) when needed

Faculty administrative duties:

• Participate in weekly faculty, clinic, and Behavioral Health Team meetings and other committees/meetings as assigned by the Residency Program Director.
• Support the planning and development of Trauma-Informed Resilience-Oriented Equity-Focused Systems (TIROES) throughout the residency
• Provide input on broader curricular changes through participation as Core Faculty member
• Participate in recruitment and interview season for Family Medicine Residents
• Coordinate process for formal resident observations by behavioral health providers and preceptors

Clinical services in the outpatient setting:

• Clinical time negotiable.
• Brief psychoeducation and intervention as part of integrated BH care visits
• Health and behavior coaching in individual and group formats
• Knowledge of literature regarding the psychological impact of trauma and trauma-related disorders
• Ability to provide mental health care across the full spectrum of patients in a primary care medical setting (Child/adolescent experience in addition to adult care is preferred)
• Coordinates clinical care and clinical training opportunities with health center BH team and agency BH

* Ph.D/Psy.D/LCSW/LMFT
* Experience providing psychological assessment and interventions to individuals and families across the lifespan.
* Experience in providing integrative care with a team of physicians and a track record of working with teams of health care providers and support staff from different disciplines.
* Experience providing psychotherapy to a socioeconomically, racially, and ethnically diverse clientele
* Commitment to DEIB (Diversity Equity, Inclusion and Belonging) as it pertains to primary care and behavioral health access to underserved population

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience with medical education and interest in delving into innovative ways to improve behavioral health training for physicians
* Experience in conducting research consistent with the complexity of issues that arise in primary care and the delivery of care in an integrated fashion.
* Clinical experience providing care to both adult and pediatric populations.