Clinical Liaison Resource - Inpatient Rehabilitation

Resource Clinical Liaison

Title: Resource Clinical Liaison (RN, PT, OT, SLP) - Inpatient Rehab

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area

Your experience matters!

At Lifepoint Health, 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.

Here's what makes us stand out:

• Specialized Rehabilitation Programs: Tailored care for patients recovering from stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputation, orthopedic trauma, and other neurological or complex conditions.
• Intensive Therapy Model: Patients typically receive at least three hours of physical, occupational, and/or speech therapy per day, five days a week, under the supervision of a rehabilitation physician.
• State-of-the-Art Facility: Offers modern therapy equipment, private rooms, and a dedicated team focused on maximizing recovery and quality of life.
• 24/7 Medical Support: Around-the-clock nursing and physician oversight ensure continuous care and safety throughout the rehabilitation process.

As a Resource Clinical Liaison 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

Build and maintain referral relationships to drive appropriate admissions to the hospitals. Coordinate the intake and pre-admission screening process, conduct on-site clinical assessments to determine suitability for acute rehabilitation, educate patients/families on services and participation requirements, and serve as the primary external contact for case managers, discharge planners, physicians, and payors. Travel 95% including out of the area.

Essential Functions

• Assist and coordinate the intake and pre-admission screening process.
• Perform on-site clinical assessments (typically at referring facilities) to determine appropriateness for admission.
• Educate patients and families on rehabilitation options, level of care, and expectations for participation.
• Serve as the initial contact for external case management, discharge planners, payors, and hospital partners.
• Conduct face-to-face, in-service educational visits with physicians, case managers, and other professionals.
• Inform and educate community decision-makers about the hospital and acute rehabilitation services to develop census through direct outreach.
• Document screenings, decisions, and communications accurately and timely in EMR and tracking systems.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional Information

Role involves weekly travel to referring facilities and community partners; valid driver's license and clean driving record required. Success measures include timeliness of screenings, conversion rates, and quality of referral relationships. Works closely with admissions, nursing, therapy, and case management to ensure smooth transitions and payer authorization compliance.

Education: Bachelor's degree preferred.

Licensure/Certification: Current clinical licensure required (RN, PT, OT, SLP) per state requirements.

Experience: Prior marketing/sales experience in inpatient rehab required; prior clinical experience with demonstrated assessment skills and EMR proficiency preferred.

Skills: Excellent oral and written communication, strong interpersonal and presentation skills, customer relationship building, sound clinical judgment, organization/time-management, and basic computer/data-entry proficiency.

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and 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.