Behavioral Health Consultant

Benefits

• Paid Time Off & Paid Company Holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• $0 Copay for Legacy Provider visits
• $0 Copay for prescriptions filled at Legacy Pharmacies
• Travel Insurance & Pet Insurance
• Subsidized Gym Membership
• And much more!

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Location: Legacy Acres Homes (LAW) - 3011 W Gulf Bank Rd, Houston, TX 77088

Behavioral Health Consultant - Job Overview

Schedule: Monday-Friday (8AM-4PM)

As a Behavioral Health Consultant, you’ll bring compassionate, timely behavioral health support directly into the primary care setting. Your clinical expertise will help adults, adolescents, and children navigate biopsychosocial stressors through integrated behavioral health screenings, brief interventions, clinical evaluations, and counseling.

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative care family and make a meaningful difference where physical and behavioral healthcare come together. You’ll build trusting relationships with clients, partner closely with physicians and other providers, and help shape client-centered interventions and treatment plans.

Your Opportunity to Make a Difference

• Identify behavioral health needs early through screening and psychosocial assessment in the primary care setting.
• Provide brief interventions, crisis intervention, counseling, and referrals that connect clients with timely support.
• Support children, adolescents, and adults experiencing behavioral health concerns and biopsychosocial stressors.
• Collaborate with clients, physicians, healthcare providers, and community agencies to coordinate integrated care.
• Strengthen the broader healthcare team through your clinical insight and client-centered approach.
• Keep growing your practice by staying current with integrated behavioral techniques, theories, and research.

A Collaborative Path for Growth

• Find purpose in work that connects behavioral health services with community healthcare needs.
• Receive ongoing case consultation with a clinical supervisor at least monthly.
• Work alongside a multidisciplinary team committed to compassionate, coordinated care.
• Participate in service coordination, follow-up, and prevention efforts that support long-term wellness.
• Help clients access voluntary family planning services and related preventive health services in compliance with funding requirements and state and federal laws, rules, and regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Screen new clients identified at risk in the primary care setting to identify presenting problems, address urgent issues and/or provide immediate referral as indicated.
• Administer psychosocial assessments and crisis intervention.
• Provide individual brief interventions to adults, adolescents, and children experiencing biopsychosocial stressors.
• Provide direct clinical services including clinical evaluations and counseling using motivational interviewing and brief intervention methods.
• Review client records.
• Develop and write record notes and evaluation reports.
• Assist with service coordination and follow-up procedures.
• Coordinate consultation and services to various community agencies and health services providers.
• Collaborate with clients, physicians, and other providers to develop and implement client-centered interventions and treatment plans.
• Re-assess clients and complete new treatment plans as indicated.
• Work a full-time flexible schedule that will include evenings and some weekends.
• Meet with clinical supervisor at least monthly to review client cases.
• Document all encounters with clients, including but not limited to all contacts and attempted contacts with or on behalf of clients in the client’s medical record within 3 working days of their occurrence.
• Perform billing activities according to agency procedures.
• Attend all meetings as required.
• Keep abreast of developments in integrated behavioral techniques, theories and research.
• Interview and advise patients regarding health and illness prevention, including FQHC-required voluntary family planning services and related preventative health services in compliance with funding requirements and state and federal laws, rules and regulations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must have a master’s degree from an accredited college or university in the social or behavioral sciences.
• Must have a current Texas license, (LCSW LPC or LMFT) be in good standing with their credentialing board.
• Provider shall obtain, maintain and participate in the Medicare and Medicaid Programs, workers’ compensation, other federal and state reimbursement programs, and the payment plan of any commercial insurer, health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, accountable health plan, and other health benefit program requested by Legacy.

Required Years of Experience

• Must have a minimum of 2 years paid work experience providing assessment, brief intervention and/or psychotherapy.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities

• Must be able to manage multiple deadline and decision making responsibilities.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities

• Physical & Mental Demands.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position
• Frequently required to sit; occasionally required to stand and walk.
• Frequently required to talk and/or communicate both expressively & receptively.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Occasionally required to bend, twist, climb, and reach.
• Moderate concentration/intensity, which includes prolonged mental effort with limited opportunity for breaks.
• Normal memory, taking into consideration the amount and type of information.
• Moderate level of complexity for decision making.
• Must be able to handle normal levels of intensity.

About Legacy Community Health

The largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Southeast Texas, Legacy Community Health has delivered affordable, high-quality care for nearly 40 years across 50+ clinics in Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast. Our mission — driving healthy change in our communities — guides everything we do, and it starts with our people.

Approachable & Collaborative — Leads with humility, values diverse perspectives, and builds trust through teamwork.

Driven & Committed — Takes initiative and goes the extra mile to improve patient outcomes and drive continuous improvement.

Thoughtful Communicators — Pairs clinical/technical skill with emotional intelligence, navigating complex situations with empathy and professionalism.