Director, Assessment (RN) Behavioral Health
Memorial Physician Practices, Hot Springs National Park, AR, United States
Director, Assessment (RN) Behavioral Health
Job Type: Full Time | Days
Your experience matters:
National Park Medical Center
At National Park Medical Center, we are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well‑being so you can provide exceptional care to others. Here, you’re not just valued as an employee, but as a person. As a
Director of Intake and Assessment
joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.
How you’ll contribute The Director of Intake and Assessment ensures a comprehensive assessment of patients seeking treatment for psychiatric or substance abuse disorders. The role oversees the assessment of all persons seeking services, completes initial assessments on patients seeking treatment, supervises staff in responding to inquiries via phone, fax, or walk‑in, and ensures responses within established timelines. It makes and supervises treatment recommendations based on clinical presentation and established guidelines, reviews clinical presentation with an admitting psychiatrist, documents calls and sets appointments for callers, creates, revises, and implements the schedule of the assessment and referral office, interprets treatment to patient and family to ensure understanding, refers and triages patients to other sources of treatment when appropriate, assesses, coaches, and develops team skills in assessment, patient and family interaction and overall therapeutic care, and collects, monitors, and reports service performance data as required by the hospital quality program.
Essential Functions
Those functions that the individual who holds the position must be able to perform unaided or with the assistance of reasonable accommodation.
Assumes personal responsibility for obtaining and maintaining professional development and education. Maintains or obtains relevant licensure as appropriate.
Utilizes management, financial, regulatory, and clinical and systems knowledge to assess market needs, collaborates with Business Development Liaison and business development staff to ensure timely response to inquiries and referrals, gathers data from a variety of sources in a systematic manner, and tracks, trends, analyzes, and synthesizes performance indicators.
Demonstrates leadership in planning and scheduling the department efficiently to support timely assessment of referrals, manage staff, and promote clinical demands. Responds to community/market needs, regulatory changes, patient service needs, and quality service demands.
Provides oversight of human and fiscal resources, maintaining budgetary and safety guidelines.
Accepts participation in special projects, other duties, and appointments to hospital/local/regional committees as appropriate.
What we offer Fundamental to providing great care is supporting and rewarding our team. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, plus flexible‑spending and health‑savings accounts
Competitive paid time off
Income‑protection programs, such as life, accident, critical‑injury insurance, short‑ and long‑term disability, and identity theft coverage
Tuition reimbursement, and 401(k) matching
Employee assistance program including mental, physical, and financial wellness
Professional development and growth opportunities
Knowledge / Expectations
Demonstrates strong critical thinking skills, diplomacy, and relationship building.
Ability to interact with a wide variety of individuals and handle complex situations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
Attention to detail and timely follow‑up.
Knowledge of and commitment to the mission, philosophy, and objectives.
Must read, write, and speak fluent English.
Qualifications
Minimum Master’s Degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, or Professional Counseling
Master’s Degree in Nursing pending State requirements.
Licensure in State of Practice.
Independent Practice Scope Licensure.
2–5 years of leadership experience.
2–5 years of experience in the discipline.
About our Health System National Park Medical Center is a 163‑bed hospital located in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier® with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral‑health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestone—your experience matters.
Lifepoint Health is a leader in community‑based care and is driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral‑health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers, and post‑acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.
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Your experience matters:
National Park Medical Center
At National Park Medical Center, we are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well‑being so you can provide exceptional care to others. Here, you’re not just valued as an employee, but as a person. As a
Director of Intake and Assessment
joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.
How you’ll contribute The Director of Intake and Assessment ensures a comprehensive assessment of patients seeking treatment for psychiatric or substance abuse disorders. The role oversees the assessment of all persons seeking services, completes initial assessments on patients seeking treatment, supervises staff in responding to inquiries via phone, fax, or walk‑in, and ensures responses within established timelines. It makes and supervises treatment recommendations based on clinical presentation and established guidelines, reviews clinical presentation with an admitting psychiatrist, documents calls and sets appointments for callers, creates, revises, and implements the schedule of the assessment and referral office, interprets treatment to patient and family to ensure understanding, refers and triages patients to other sources of treatment when appropriate, assesses, coaches, and develops team skills in assessment, patient and family interaction and overall therapeutic care, and collects, monitors, and reports service performance data as required by the hospital quality program.
Essential Functions
Those functions that the individual who holds the position must be able to perform unaided or with the assistance of reasonable accommodation.
Assumes personal responsibility for obtaining and maintaining professional development and education. Maintains or obtains relevant licensure as appropriate.
Utilizes management, financial, regulatory, and clinical and systems knowledge to assess market needs, collaborates with Business Development Liaison and business development staff to ensure timely response to inquiries and referrals, gathers data from a variety of sources in a systematic manner, and tracks, trends, analyzes, and synthesizes performance indicators.
Demonstrates leadership in planning and scheduling the department efficiently to support timely assessment of referrals, manage staff, and promote clinical demands. Responds to community/market needs, regulatory changes, patient service needs, and quality service demands.
Provides oversight of human and fiscal resources, maintaining budgetary and safety guidelines.
Accepts participation in special projects, other duties, and appointments to hospital/local/regional committees as appropriate.
What we offer Fundamental to providing great care is supporting and rewarding our team. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, plus flexible‑spending and health‑savings accounts
Competitive paid time off
Income‑protection programs, such as life, accident, critical‑injury insurance, short‑ and long‑term disability, and identity theft coverage
Tuition reimbursement, and 401(k) matching
Employee assistance program including mental, physical, and financial wellness
Professional development and growth opportunities
Knowledge / Expectations
Demonstrates strong critical thinking skills, diplomacy, and relationship building.
Ability to interact with a wide variety of individuals and handle complex situations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
Attention to detail and timely follow‑up.
Knowledge of and commitment to the mission, philosophy, and objectives.
Must read, write, and speak fluent English.
Qualifications
Minimum Master’s Degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, or Professional Counseling
Master’s Degree in Nursing pending State requirements.
Licensure in State of Practice.
Independent Practice Scope Licensure.
2–5 years of leadership experience.
2–5 years of experience in the discipline.
About our Health System National Park Medical Center is a 163‑bed hospital located in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier® with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral‑health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestone—your experience matters.
Lifepoint Health is a leader in community‑based care and is driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral‑health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers, and post‑acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.
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