Job Description:

This position is responsible to assist patients referred from Psychiatry, Emergency Department, and other units located within the facility in achieving their discharge goals for follow up treatment. The Behavioral Health Patient Navigator is instrumental in educating patients on how to access available mental health resources and services within their community.

Job Specifics

• Pay Range: $19.91 - $30.29 Non Exempt

• Benefits Eligible: Yes

• FTE: Full Time

• Shift: 40 hours a week.

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This position will be part patient navigator and part patient placement specialist. The navigator seeks to help arrange follow up care (aftercare) for patients while the placement specialist helps facilitate inpatient admissions including doing prior authorizations with insurance companies and collaborates with crisis workers and the patient placement team; this position will help with both.

Job Essentials

• Meets with patients in need of behavioral health services who have been referred from inpatient units, Emergency Departments, and Access Centers to review their discharge plan.

• Assists patients in connecting with referred resources.

• Initiates timely follow up calls with the patient after their discharge to ensure they are following their discharge plan and receiving maximum benefit from available resources.

• Gathers needed Data and completes the Referral Tracking Sheets and other required logs timely and accurately.

• Coordinates patient care needs with care providers and other hospital resources, including attending meetings where patient needs may be addressed or need to be represented.

• Establishes and maintains an accurate resource list of treatment facilities and community resources, updating the list as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Experience adapting quickly when the need arises.

• Knowledge of available behavioral health community resources.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three years of experience working with Behavioral Health Patients in a behavioral health care setting.

• Post high school education in a related field of study.

• Experience with discharge planning for behavioral health patients.

Physical Requirements:

• Hearing/Listening, Speaking, Sitting, Seeing, Manual Dexterity, Standing, Walking.

Location:

Intermountain Health St George Regional Hospital

Work City:

St George

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$19.91 - $30.29

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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