Assessment Specialist, Behavioral Health

Lifepoint Health • Youngstown, OH

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Mercy Behavioral Health Hospital, operated jointly with Lifepoint Health and Mercy Health, is seeking an Assessment Specialist. This role is driven by a profound commitment to prioritize employee well-being to enable exceptional care for patients. Joining the team means embracing a promise to provide superior patient care that exceeds industry standards and patient expectations. This is a meaningful journey where skills, compassion, and dedication make a remarkable difference in the lives of those served. Mercy Behavioral Health is a joint venture owned and operated by Mercy Health and Lifepoint Health, confidently executing the opening of a new hospital with seasoned professionals and plentiful resources. They pride themselves on being a place employees want to work and eagerly pursue quality outcomes for patients and families.

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing or social work
• Active RN or LSW licensure
• Previous experience in a behavioral health hospital highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Receives inquiry calls and assists callers with scheduling face-to-face, phone, or tele-assessments.
• Triages individuals based on safety risk.
• Assesses or ensures assessment by a qualified mental health professional of patients presenting for assessment.
• Screens for medical and behavioral emergency conditions.
• Performs comprehensive assessment and quality therapeutic care to patients seeking treatment for substance abuse, dual diagnosis, or psychiatric or emotional disorders.
• Coordinates with the clinical team/on-call physician to ensure patient needs are met at the facility or other appropriate community providers.
• Interprets treatment to patient and family to help reduce fear and other attitudes obstructing acceptance of care and continuation of treatment.
• Completes administrative processes of admission and precertification of care with external payers, as necessary.
• Administers nursing care to ill or injured persons by assisting in caring for patients by giving direct care.
• Coordinates and delivers quality general and psychiatric nursing care to patients hospitalized for treatment of substance abuse, dual diagnosis, or psychiatric or emotional disorders.
• Ensures the safety and well-being of each patient.
• Ensures all medical orders are followed, initiates and follows treatment planning, and acts as a patient advocate at all times.
• Facilitates response to a request for services, including initial response, assessment, referral process, designation of appropriate level of care, admission into services, and appropriate follow-up activity.
• Conducts initial evaluation, initiates the assessment, documents patient symptomology, functioning, and needs, and provides information to MD for LOC determination.
• Demonstrates excellent customer service skills in assisting patients, physicians, visitors, and coworkers promptly and courteously.
• Possesses clear knowledge of Emergency Detention paperwork and processes and EMTALA.
• Maintains all preadmission and admission paperwork with accuracy and completes all pre-certification with insurance companies.

Benefits

• Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.
• Opportunity to work in a brand-new, state of the art hospital with cutting edge equipment and technology.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree