Director, Assessment

Title: Director, Assessment

Job Type: Full time

Your experience matters!

At Westpark Springs, 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.

Westpark Springs is a mental health and addiction treatment center located at 6902 S Peek Road in Richmond, Texas. It offers both inpatient and outpatient services for adults, adolescents, and children dealing with psychiatric, substance use, or co-occurring disorders.

Here are some key highlights:

• Comprehensive Programs: Includes inpatient psychiatric care, detox services, and outpatient options like Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP).
• Specialized Youth Services: Offers tailored treatment for children and teens aged 12-18, with academic support and family involvement to ease reintegration into school and daily life.
• Dual Diagnosis Expertise: Focuses on treating individuals with both mental health and substance use disorders through evidence-based therapies.
• Supportive Services: Provides case management, group and family therapy, medication management, and discharge planning to ensure continuity of care.
• 24/7 Availability: Open around the clock for assessments and admissions, with a multidisciplinary team ready to respond to urgent mental health needs.

As a Director, 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:
Director ensures a comprehensive assessment and quality therapeutic care to patients seeking treatment of substance abuse, dual diagnosis or psychiatric or emotional disorders. Oversees the assessment of the needs of walk-in and phone callers and completes initial psychiatric assessment on patients seeking treatment. Supervises the answering and answers all inquiry calls regarding treatment and the facility, presents treatment options, documents calls and sets appointments for callers seeking treatment. Creates, revises, and implements the schedule of the assessment and referral office. Assesses the needs of walk-in and phone callers to ensure their referral to the service or resource to best address those needs. Completes initial psychiatric assessment and presents symptoms to psychiatrist for best recommendation of care. Interprets treatment to patient and family to help reduce fear and other attitudes obstructing acceptance of care and continuation of treatment. Refers and triages patients to other sources of treatment when appropriate. Answers all inquiry calls regarding treatment and the facility, presents treatment options, documents calls and sets appointments for callers seeking treatment. Assesses, coaches and develops team skills in assessment, patient and family interaction and overall therapeutic care. Acts as part of overall Hospital leadership team. May supervise reception.
Directs and performs the screening of potential patients for admission into the program and initiates the integrated assessment process.
As a clinician, assists administration, physicians, and clinical staff in the assessment of pending admits to determine appropriateness of level of care and communicates pending admissions to the nursing department.
Uses the approved admission criteria and make recommendations concerning the level of care for treatment using the least restrictive level appropriate. The plan for episode of care is initiated at admission to all levels of care.
Functions as a liaison between physicians and families, coordinates with transportation services, and other mental health facilities to organize the admission procedures.
Ensures that all vital patient assessment information is referred accurately to the attending physicians, and that patient historical information obtained is complete to facilitate an accurate determination for the appropriate level of care.
Communicate with external reviewers and referral sources and conduct all required external reviews and maintain documentations of all such interaction while following HIPAA guidelines.
Ensure that third-party payors are notified of, or participate in, decisions about appropriate transitions between levels of care
Prepares morning meeting reports to communicate pertinent census information, referral sources, and pending admissions.
Consistently provides services to current referral sources to assure their satisfaction and continued associations.
Assesses, coaches and develops teams' skills, holds team accountable to high standards
Knowledgeable in all CMS, JCAHO, EMTLA, and State regulations and standards of performance. Regularly audits function to ensure compliance.

Qualifications and requirements:
Education: Master's degree in social work, counseling or related field required or licensed degree per state of practice guideline. RN licensure may be used per state of practice guidelines.
Experience: Previous management experience in a psychiatric health care facility, with direct experience working in assessment for chemical dependency, dual diagnosis, psychiatric and geriatric patients. Must have strong clinical assessment skills.
License: Current unencumbered clinical social work, counselor or RN license or per state requirements. Valid driver's license and a favorable Motor Vehicle Report (MVR), along with proof of insurance when using own auto.
Additional Requirements: CPR certification and Crisis Prevention Training (CPI) within 30 days.

About us
Westpark Springs is located in Richmond, TX, 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.

EEOC Statement

"Westpark Springs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Westpark Springs is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment."

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.