Our Team:
Sonora Behavioral Health, Tucson’s largest inpatient psychiatric hospital, is looking for talented and caring professionals to join our team! Sonora Behavioral Health offers competitive compensation, benefits and regular opportunities for development and advancement.
Your Job as an Intake Clinician
The Intake Clinicians are qualified, clinical professional responsible for inquiries, assessments and admissions to our facility. Intake Clinicians provide high quality, compassionate care throughout the admissions process and communicate treatment recommendations with treatment teams.
Essential Functions as an Intake Clinician:
- Facilitate admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients.
- Respond to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes.
- Schedule/complete pre-admission assessments and communicate recommendations to patients or their families.
- Collaborate with other facility medical and psychiatric personnel to ensure appropriate recommendations and admissions.
- Coordinate admission and transfer between levels of care within the facility.
- Communicate projected admissions to designated internal representative in a timely manner.
- Perform insurance benefit verifications, disseminating the information gathered to patient, their families and other appropriate facility staff.
- Ensure all medical admission documentation is gathered from external sources prior to patient admission and secure initial pre-authorization for treatment and admission.
- Assist individual therapists with concurrent reviews with insurance companies to secure continued treatment.
- Coordinate and facilitate peer to peer reviews when needed and collaborate the results of reviews with multi-disciplinary treatment team.
- Provide accurate and ongoing assessment of patient status in the admissions process.
Your Skills and Qualifications as an Intake Clinician:
- Master's Degree in Behavioral Science, Social Work, or related field is preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Behavioral Science, Social Work, or related field required.
- Minimum of one year experience working with individuals in a clinical or oberservatoinal capaticity
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Healthcare setting:
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
- Evening shift
- Night shift
Work Location: In person