Assessment Specialist at Beckett Springs LLC summary:
The Assessment Specialist at Beckett Springs provides comprehensive behavioral health assessments and coordinates care for patients with mental health and substance use disorders. This role involves receiving inquiry calls, scheduling assessments, and ensuring patients receive appropriate treatment through collaboration with the clinical team. Qualifications include a relevant Bachelor's Degree and current licensure in social work or counseling, along with strong clinical assessment skills.
Overview:
Beckett Springs, part of Lifepoint Behavioral Health, nationally known healthcare organization with diversified delivery network with facilities from coast to coast, seeks passionate, patient-centric, and goal-oriented team members. We specialize in compassionate behavioral health services, including crisis stabilization, inpatient care, and outpatient treatment for acute mental health and substance use treatment. Our philosophy is built on a psychosocial model of care to decrease suicide rates, decrease addiction-related deaths, reverse the decline in life expectancy, and improve productivity in the communities we serve. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, and flexible scheduling so you can focus on what matters–providing quality patient care. Join our team in West Chester, Ohio, to build a career that touches lives.
Benefits
- Affordable medical, dental and vision plans provided to meet the needs of full employees and their families
- Up to 16 days of PTO for full time employees
- 6 paid holidays for full time employees
- Tuition reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
Position Details:
What you will do in this role
- Receives inquiry calls and assists the caller with scheduling a face-to-face assessment or triage to the appropriate community referral.
- Assesses or ensures assessment by a qualified mental health professional of patients who present for assessment.
- Screens for medical and behavioral emergency conditions.
- Performs a comprehensive assessment and quality therapeutic care to patients seeking treatment of substance abuse, dual diagnosis or psychiatric or emotional disorders; coordinates with the clinical team/on-call physician to ensure these needs are met either at the facility or other appropriate community provider.
- Interprets treatment to patient and family to help reduce fear and other attitudes obstructing acceptance of care and continuation of treatment.
Qualifications:
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or counseling and relevant licensure (LSW, LISW, LPC, LPCC, MFT, IMFT)
- Current unencumbered clinical social work, counseling license or per state of practice guidelines. RN license may be accepted.
- CPR and CPI certified within 30 days.
- Prior experience in a psychiatric healthcare facility working with adult and geriatric patients preferred.
- Must have strong clinical assessment skills.
Keywords:
behavioral health, mental health assessment, substance abuse, patient care, clinical social work, crisis stabilization, outpatient treatment, healthcare services, dual diagnosis, patient coordination