Psychiatric Admissions Coordinator

JOB SUMMARY

The Psychiatric Admissions Coordinator is under general supervision, provides clerical and administrative support to the Psychiatric Service. Work requires internal contacts outside the work group to exchange work-related information. Contact with external contacts is for ongoing service, handling of routine transactions and providing detailed information about a selected service or capability.

• Provides daily support to the Psychiatric Service staff by:
• Assisting with referrals to psychiatric facilities and programs
• Communicating with appropriate third party payers to obtain necessary authorization.
• Documenting in the patient record efforts at authorization referral and placement.
• Faxing referral information to facilities.
• Preparing transfer packets.
• Arranging transportation for patients for discharge and transfers to other facilities for continued care.
• Providing direct administrative/clerical support to the medical director and Behavior Health Unit in the ED social workers and physicians.
• Assisting the department director in scheduling meetings and appointments

Shift: Casual/on-call

• Associates degree completion preferred, but not required.
• Two (2) years college with successful completion of basic statistics course.
• At least two (2) years' experience as a medical secretary.
• Experience in a psychiatric setting preferred.

Minimum 17.11