Behavioral Health Evaluation Center Care Manager PT, Variable

Prisma Health•Richland, WA

16d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides timely, comprehensive behavioral health evaluations in the Emergency Department and mobile assessment services for the inpatient consult liaison team and contract facilities. Collaborates with providers and multidisciplinary team members, communicates with physicians and treatment teams to facilitate transitions of care—including hospital admissions inside and outside Prisma Health—and supports discharge planning and coordination with agencies providing post-hospital care. Maintains assessment records and documentation and manages statistical data. Assesses behavioral health and substance abuse needs with emergency medicine providers, psychiatrists, and the emergency department interdisciplinary team, gathering collateral information from multiple sources. Provides face-to-face emergency department evaluations, telephone assessments for community professionals, crisis support, and ongoing case management for patients and families while discharge dispositions are pending. Helps patients identify strengths and symptoms, set goals, and plan appropriate services. Prepares case histories concerning patients’ personal, social, and emotional development; connects patients with community resources and coordinates referrals or transfers to psychiatric hospitals and substance abuse treatment centers when indicated. Communicates patient and family issues to the treatment team and liaises with services involved in discharge planning. Oversees compliance with emergency psychiatric and chemical dependency hospitalization paperwork under state law and assists medical providers with Inability to Consent documentation by identifying an appropriate surrogate decision maker under the Adult Healthcare Consent Act. This is a non-management position reporting to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Psychology, Rehabilitation Counseling, or a related field of study.
One year of counseling experience.
Required licensure: LPC (Licensed Practical Counselor), LMFT (Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist), LAC (Licensed Associate Counselor), LPES (Licensed Psycho-Educational Specialist), or related licensure.
Skills necessary to assess patients of all ages.
Ability to use appropriate nomenclature when reviewing patients with physicians.
Ability to complete clinical documentation in the computerized documentation system.

Nice To Haves

Emergency room experience preferred.
Group therapy or private practice exposure preferred.
Individual, family, and marriage counseling experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Assess patients’ behavioral health and substance abuse needs in collaboration with emergency medicine providers, psychiatrists, and the emergency department interdisciplinary team, obtaining collateral information from multiple sources.
Identify and refer patients and families to community resources when appropriate.
Refer and coordinate transfers to inpatient psychiatric hospitals or substance abuse treatment centers when indicated.
Provide ongoing case management and support to patients and families while discharge disposition is pending.
Help patients evaluate their strengths and symptoms, set their own goals, and plan appropriate services.
Prepare case histories of patients’ personal, social, and emotional development.
Provide face-to-face behavioral health evaluations in the emergency department.
Communicate patient and family issues to the treatment team and act as liaison with services involved in discharge planning.
Apply Mental Health First Aid principles during patient crises.
Provide telephone assessments for community professionals to determine clinical appropriateness for services.
Assist patients in locating and using community resources, including legal and financial assistance and other referral services.
Oversee compliance with emergency psychiatric and chemical dependency hospitalization paperwork in accordance with state law.
Assist medical providers with Inability to Consent documentation by identifying the appropriate surrogate decision maker in compliance with the Adult Healthcare Consent Act.
Collaborate with providers and multidisciplinary team members to facilitate transitions of care and hospital admissions inside and outside Prisma Health.
Manage discharge planning and coordinate with agencies providing post-hospital care.
Maintain records and document assessments; manage statistical data.
Perform other duties as assigned.