JOB SUMMARY: 

The Department of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine offers a one-year Pre-Doctoral Behavioral Health Fellowship for Medical Family Therapy/Marriage and Family Therapy trainees. The Behavioral Health Fellow will operate under the supervision of the Behavioral Health Director and will join an interdisciplinary team of primary care and behavioral health providers. 

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: 

Minimum of a Master's degree and currently enrolled in Medical Family Therapy or Marriage and Family Therapy doctoral program. All Ph.D. prerequisite coursework completed by time of the internship start date. 

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: 

Must have passed the national MFT exam. An LMFT/LMFTA status within six months of the fellowship required. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

1. Provides integrated behavioral health care services to Wake Forest Baptist Health patients. 

2. Coordinates care with patients' primary care/specialty providers. 

3. Co-facilitates group medical visits and/or group therapy experiences for patients. 

4. Assists in the teaching of first and second year family medicine residents' BH Rotation. 

5. Attends sign outs and rounds with the inpatient medical team. 6. May provide clinical supervision to a masters level MFT intern. 

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: 

Excellent oral and written communication skills Strong interpersonal skills 

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Clean, well-lit, comfortable office setting 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.