Behavioral Health Patient Care Manager - Part Time Day Shift - Traverse City, MI

Munson Healthcare • Traverse City, MI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

More Than Just Care, It’s Community Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties. If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material. To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country. Embarking on a career in behavioral health nursing is both rewarding and challenging , demanding a deep well of compassion, sensitivity, and outstanding communication abilities. You will engage with patients across all age groups, assisting them in navigating intricate emotional and physical challenges. The Patient Care Manager facilitates progression-of-care and monitors the patient's progress to ensure that the plan of care and services provided are patient focused, high quality, evidence based, appropriate to patient needs, efficient, cost effective, and authorized by insurance companies. D6 Inpatient Behavioral Health is a 17-bed unit dedicated to adult patients facing various mental health conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. This unit boasts a multidisciplinary team comprising psychiatric providers, nurses, clinicians, and behavioral health technicians. To excel, behavioral health clinicians must possess remarkable communication and interpersonal skills, enabling them to set boundaries while fostering trust. Mastery of therapeutic communication is vital for empowering patients and enhancing their mental well-being. Psychiatric mental health nurses must not only know what to convey but also how to deliver their messages with the appropriate tone, volume, and body language. Moreover, care team members should exhibit flexibility, embrace diverse lifestyles, and have a solid grounding in both behavioral and medical sciences. They must be equipped to address the multifaceted needs of their patients while maintaining a calm and compassionate presence, even in unpredictable situations.

Requirements

• Master’s degree from a social work, psychology, and/or counseling accredited program OR 6000 hours of counseling and/or related experience
• Michigan License to provide behavioral health counseling - May be a LMSW, LPC, or LLP
• Empathy
• Effective Communication
• Team Collaboration
• remarkable communication and interpersonal skills, enabling them to set boundaries while fostering trust
• Mastery of therapeutic communication is vital for empowering patients and enhancing their mental well-being
• flexibility
• embrace diverse lifestyles
• solid grounding in both behavioral and medical sciences
• equipped to address the multifaceted needs of their patients while maintaining a calm and compassionate presence, even in unpredictable situations
• all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella
• all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption

Nice To Haves

• With manager approval, Limited Licensed individuals may be considered

Responsibilities

• facilitates progression-of-care
• monitors the patient's progress to ensure that the plan of care and services provided are patient focused, high quality, evidence based, appropriate to patient needs, efficient, cost effective, and authorized by insurance companies
• engage with patients across all age groups, assisting them in navigating intricate emotional and physical challenges

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement
• in-person and online development
• access to our career hub to help you advance
• Full benefits
• paid holidays
• generous PTO
• employee discounts
• free individual retirement counseling
• Free wellness platform for you and your family
• personalized support for personal or family challenges
• Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees