Case Manager, Behavioral Health - Full Time, Days/Evenings

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Affirms patients for discharge planning needs to develop and coordinate a discharge plan.
• Completes mental health and substance abuse evaluations, focusing on suicide risk, level of acuity, and clinical diagnostic impression.
• Collaborates with patient/family to develop the discharge plan.
• Communicates the plan to patient/family and the interdisciplinary care team through documentation in the medical record, active participation in discharge planning rounds, and/or verbal dialogue as appropriate.
• Ensures documentation conforms to hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
• Coordinates and communicates with various insurance companies and third-party payors to ensure pre-authorization for admissions.
• Ensures key regulatory requirements are met as defined by regulatory and licensing bodies.
• Responds to crisis calls.
• Coordinates with referral sources across the Commonwealth of Virginia to determine admissions to Snowden at Fredericksburg inpatient level of care.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in social work, counseling, or a related behavioral health field, and a minimum of 2-3 years clinical experience required.
• Completion of a Master's degree in a behavioral health discipline required within one year of hire.
• Licensed as a LCSW, LPC by the Virginia Department of Health preferred.
• CPR (AHA Healthcare Provider) required.
• CPI certification required within 90 days of hire.
• Experience interacting with psychiatric and/or substance abusing patients in various stages of illness required.
• Minimum of two years of experience in conducting assessments and evaluations preferred.
• Working knowledge of developmental issues across the life span, with a depth of knowledge of normal and abnormal development of children, adolescents, and adults required.
• Working knowledge of reimbursement and managed health care systems preferred.