Hospital Therapist Jobs

The Opportunity:
Saint Luke’s Crittenton Children’s Center in South Kansas City, MO is seeking a Hospital Therapist to join our team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to assist the Intake Director in the planning, coordination, and evaluation of all the daily activities of the Intake Department. Your experience and expertise will allow you to successfully triage emergency and non-emergency calls, verify or coordinate the certification of all funding eligibility and benefits, along with conducting intake assessments. Join the Kansas City region's premier psychiatric care provider for children, adolescents, and their families in being “The best place to get care. The best place to give care.”
Monday – Friday, 8am to 4pm

• May be an occasional need to flex schedule to 9am - 5pm.

The Work

• Provides for additional work functions in the area of Utilization Management and discharge planning.
• Recommends and implements general therapeutic interventions both for individual clients and for overall program development
• Conducts clinical interviews and recommends levels of care consistent with the treatment needs to patients and their families
• Functions as the therapist for patients and families with the psychiatrist as clinical team leader

We are seeking Hospital Therapists with experience working with children. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of the system and processes of mental health care. This position will require the skills necessary to develop communication systems that triage workloads on a daily basis. We are looking for someone with great communication and written skills with a warm, caring attitude. To be successful in this role, you must be detail oriented, efficient, adaptable, and capable of multitasking. This position requires you to work in a team atmosphere as well as autonomously.
If you are looking for a fast paced work environment that is rewarding as well as supportive, offering a room for self-care and tools to tackle challenges, this is the position for you.
Must have a master's degree and applicable MO license (LMSW, LPC, PLPC, LCSW).
Job Requirements
Applicable Experience:
Less than 1 year
Provisional License - Various
Master's Degree
Job Details
Full Time
Day (United States of America)
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