Admissions Assesor (MA/MSW)

About the role

Compass Intervention Center is a behavioral health and substance abuse treatment provider committed to delivering excellence, expanding programs with a new Acute Care Center opening August 2023, and offering a variety of options to make treatment accessible and effective while maintaining high quality care. The center promotes mental health awareness and serves patients with integrity, dependability, and decision‑making skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between Compass Intervention Center and referral sources, patients, and families.
• Facilitate referrals from mobile crisis agencies, hospitals, and other referral sources to support call center operations.
• Oversee assessment, referral, and admission activities of the department.
• Provide telephonic and in‑person assessments; make initial contact with referral sources and potential clients.
• Coordinate the referral and intake process and determine the appropriate level of care.
• Maintain communication with referral sources, families, clients, and unit staff.
• Help create and maintain department procedures for daily census records, inquiry calls, referrals phone log, and ensure treatment and clinical services meet client needs.
• Facilitate the admission process and maintain communication with referral sources, families, clients, and unit staff.
• Ensure thorough and accurate documentation of calls and admissions‑related paperwork.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Social Work or a related field (or Registered Nurse).
• Prior intake, assessment, admission, and crisis intervention experience with a psychiatric/mental health population, preferably in an inpatient setting.
• Adequate knowledge of appropriate levels and focus of care for psychiatric, emotional, or behavioral problems.
• Preferred knowledge of crisis intervention and risk assessment, psychiatric diagnoses symptomology, basic chemical dependency, age‑specific growth and development, and crisis and behavior management.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug plan for full‑time and part‑time positions.
• 401(k) plan with company match for full‑time and part‑time positions.
• Generous paid time off.
• Tuition assistance.
• Opportunities for advancement within UHS and its subsidiaries.
• Challenging and rewarding work environment.