There is a place for you at Highland Rivers Behavioral Health!

Highland Rivers provides treatment and recovery services to individuals impacted by mental illness; substance use disorders and intellectual developmental disabilities.

JOB SUMMARY: Highland Rivers Behavioral Health has many ways individuals will access our services, one of which is through emergency departments in their local hospital. The ED Diversion program is a program that is embedded in those hospital systems to meet and assess individuals needing behavioral health or substance use services. The goal of this program is to avoid a costly, not necessary hospitalization and instead divert individuals to the needed level of care quickly.

Are you ready to make a Difference?

Highland Rivers Health is seeking Behavioral Health Assessors to be based in the Hamilton Medical Center Emergency Department. 

Duties and Responsibilities include:

• The assessor will perform assessments in the Emergency Department and on the medical floor and will consult with physicians and staff, collateral contacts and community partners in order to determine the appropriate treatment disposition and ensure the individual's safety.
• Conducts and interprets comprehensive, face to face or tele-medicine-based assessments in an effort to make level of care recommendations.
• Facilitate access to the identified inpatient, residential or community-based service for a diverse population.
• Review the intake criteria and scope of services for the level of care recommendation with the individual/guardian to ensure comprehension and improve clinical outcomes
• Act as a liaison between the individual and the determined level of care to include referral via BHL, pre-certification of insurance, faxing clinical information to receiving facilities and scheduling outpatient appointments as appropriate.
• Complete other duties such as phone-based discharge follow up calls, phone-based engagement activities, treatment planning, utilization management or functioning as staff at the Crisis Stabilization Unit dependent upon education, experience and skills as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.