About Us

Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love—and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.

Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.®

Responsibilities

The Liaison, Clinical is an essential member of the clinical team as a facilitator for admissions, clinical assessments, and discharges, and other professional tasks which allows the therapists to focus on providing treatment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the scheduling of onsite admissions, including maintaining an updated, shared availability calendar with admissions-responsible departments.
• Act as liaison between admissions, programming, client, and or parent(s)/guardian.
• Conduct record review of clinical and medical screening questionnaires, IP treatment records, IEP academic records, referent-provided information, releases of information and custody paperwork, as needed.
• Conduct face-to-face, biopsychosocial, risk and other clinical assessments as required.
• Provide clinical clearance determination – ensuring admitting level of care appropriateness. consults with Clinical Director for final approval as needed.
• Assign safety risk level and elopement risk level, triaging risk with onsite program and clinical staff to ensure accommodations to manage risk in place prior to admission.
• Assign provisional admitting diagnoses; consults with Clinical Director or Psychiatrist as needed.
• Complete intake/admission paperwork with parents and client (may depend on site).
• Generate EHR chart for new admits, uploads, and completes all admission documentation.
• Facilitates client’s completion of intake surveys.
• Communicate with parents about admission, denials, and/or admission contingencies.
• Provide parents with Denial of Admission Letter indicating rationale for denial and referral recommendations.
• Conduct tours with parents and clients as requested.
• Support programming and client treatment as needed (typically when not facilitating admissions, when another therapist is out, or during periods of site growth) which may include individual or group therapy sessions, client activities, or crisis management.
• Participate in all treatment team meetings to remain aware of all clients for appropriate case management and parental communication.
• Complete documentation in a timely manner (may include assessments, treatment plans, progress and group notes, discharge summary) according to established standards.
• Complete peer reviews.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in a clinical specialization from a state approved graduate school required.
• Licensed in Marriage Family Therapy, Counseling, or Social Work in the state in which working required. 
• Experience working with adolescents or young adults with mental health and substance use disorders.
• Experience in clinical intake and assessment process.
• Willing to be trained and supervised within the framework of the ABFT family therapy model and utilize the ABFT framework in family therapy.
• Willing to participate in other company required clinical and therapeutic modality trainings.
• Experience in facilitating individual, group or family therapy with adolescents and young adults.
• Experience working within a residential or outpatient setting preferred.

Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability.  Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.

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