FBH Clinical Access Specialist

About the role

The Clinical Access Specialist Clinician plays a crucial first step in the process of determining eligibility and facilitating access to behavioral health services for children, youth, and families.

Responsibilities

• Utilize clinical assessment and engagement skills to meet with child, youth, and family in various settings to gather demographic, clinical/situation information and assess for service need and intensity.
• Complete behavioral health clinical assessment tools including the CANS Assessment.
• Demonstrate familiarity with DSM criteria for clinical mental health diagnoses and formulate a clinical diagnosis based on client background and presenting behavioral health issues and concerns.
• Engage the child and family during the referral session, assessing for immediate safety needs and concerns and ensuring clinical support for the safety of the child throughout the referral determination process.
• Gather information from medical, behavioral health, and other community providers for children/youth referred to support assessment for and access to services.
• Using an Electronic Health Record, Provider One, verify Medicaid eligibility for services.
• For referrals meeting access to care criteria, assess acuity level for response and coordinate referral assignment with identified clinical manager/supervisor.
• Communicate referral dispositions to Medicaid and BHO funders and obtain pre-authorization for those meeting service criteria.
• For those referrals not meeting criteria, report disposition information to funder in monthly reports.
• For referrals not meeting criteria for services, assist referent in resolving presenting concern, e.g., make referrals to community resources, utilizing motivational interviewing and solution-focused principles to resolve issue(s).
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Maintain strong and active relationships with funders, Behavioral health and Medical providers, Children’s Administration, Juvenile Justice, community organizations, and other referral sources.
• Maintain on-going clinical contact with children/youth meeting access criteria for services pending clinical assignment, ensure appropriate and timely coordination, collaboration and support for behavioral health supports.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
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• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
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• Manage access to services: Support and facilitate referral access in the community by representing Family Behavioral Health Services in the community by community outreach and collaboration.
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