MedStar Health
Overview
MedStar Health is hiring a Behavioral Health Specialist to join inpatient units in our Baltimore area hospitals. The role requires a licensed social worker or professional counselor who can provide therapeutic interventions, assessment, evaluation, and disposition, and make independent clinical decisions.
Responsibilities
Complete documentation relevant to activities, complying with documentation standards and data collection requirements.
Coordinate admission to programs and services within Behavioral Health Services and associated programs, ensuring accurate documentation and clinically substantiating the recommended level of care.
Work directly and effectively with the inpatient units at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, MedStar Harbor Hospital, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, and MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital to coordinate admissions and communicate with other area hospitals and outpatient resources.
Serve as liaison between inpatient psychiatric units and outside agencies and referral sources to coordinate/facilitate admissions, process referral information, and communicate effectively with referral sources, inpatient unit staff, and admissions department.
Participate in the management of aggressive patients as needed to ensure safety, recognize early warning signs of escalating behaviors and intervene, provide clinical assessment, evaluation, and disposition of persons presenting with behavioral health concerns or illness, assess, engage, and disposition patients with a wide variety of diagnoses, provide education to patients and families, and collect information for appropriate recommendation of level of care.
Communicate effectively with treating physicians, nurses, and community-based resources to ensure appropriate care, provide timely and comprehensive documentation and ongoing assessments while patients are in the Emergency Department, provide support to Emergency Department staff for behavioral health issues, and provide comprehensive crisis assessments.
Qualifications
Master's degree in psychology, social work, or related field.
Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C), or Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC), or Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), or License Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), or Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), or Ph.D.
1-2 years’ experience in assessment and disposition of behavioral health disorders preferred.
Salary USD $60,632.00 – $111,259.00 / Yr.
#J-18808-Ljbffr
Responsibilities
Complete documentation relevant to activities, complying with documentation standards and data collection requirements.
Coordinate admission to programs and services within Behavioral Health Services and associated programs, ensuring accurate documentation and clinically substantiating the recommended level of care.
Work directly and effectively with the inpatient units at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, MedStar Harbor Hospital, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, and MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital to coordinate admissions and communicate with other area hospitals and outpatient resources.
Serve as liaison between inpatient psychiatric units and outside agencies and referral sources to coordinate/facilitate admissions, process referral information, and communicate effectively with referral sources, inpatient unit staff, and admissions department.
Participate in the management of aggressive patients as needed to ensure safety, recognize early warning signs of escalating behaviors and intervene, provide clinical assessment, evaluation, and disposition of persons presenting with behavioral health concerns or illness, assess, engage, and disposition patients with a wide variety of diagnoses, provide education to patients and families, and collect information for appropriate recommendation of level of care.
Communicate effectively with treating physicians, nurses, and community-based resources to ensure appropriate care, provide timely and comprehensive documentation and ongoing assessments while patients are in the Emergency Department, provide support to Emergency Department staff for behavioral health issues, and provide comprehensive crisis assessments.
Qualifications
Master's degree in psychology, social work, or related field.
Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C), or Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC), or Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), or License Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), or Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), or Ph.D.
1-2 years’ experience in assessment and disposition of behavioral health disorders preferred.
Salary USD $60,632.00 – $111,259.00 / Yr.
#J-18808-Ljbffr