Utilization Review Coordinator

Are you looking to advance your career in Admissions & Utilization Review? If you answered yes, then consider joining our team where you can take your career to the next level.

Devereux Florida is a nonprofit behavioral health organization that provides a wide range of services for children, adolescents, and families across the state. Our programs support individuals with emotional, behavioral, and developmental challenges, including those with autism, trauma histories, or intellectual disabilities. Services include residential treatment, therapeutic foster care, outpatient counseling, crisis intervention, and community-based supports. Devereux Florida focuses on individualized, trauma-informed care, helping youth stabilize, heal, and transition to less restrictive environments with ongoing family involvement and support.

As the Utilization Review Coordinator at Devereux Florida, you will work with other dedicated professionals internally and externally who share your passion for helping others, and ensuring a fluid collaborative Admissions and Utilization Review process for the children's psychiatric residential treatment programs throughout the state of Florida. This position is responsible for preparing and maintaining admission utilization review on each client’s appropriateness for admission and treatment.

Facilitates and monitors discharges and needed aftercare services for each individual served. Must maintain current knowledge on the multitude of funding sources and ensure compliance with mandated requirements and standards.

Schedule:

Monday - Friday 8am-5pm. This is an in-person position.

Salary:
Starts at $20.25 / hr (subject to increase based on relevant experience and education)

We strive to create an inclusive environment, and retain the talented employees who make our organization a great place to work. We offer:

• Paid time off (24 days per year, increase with years of service);
  Sick time (64 hours per year)
• Retirement – 403(b) through TIAA
• Quality Low-Cost Benefits (medical, dental, vision), pet insurance, plus student loan debt assistance and 30-day benefit eligibility waiting period for new hires! (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..org
• ASCEND - Tuition Program You deserve to work somewhere that gives back to you! Devereux is proud to offer ASCEND – the first career accelerator program exclusively designed to give behavioral healthcare workers – the career guidance, one-on-one coaching, skills and financial assistance you need to reach your full potential. This program includes 100% of tuition covered (up to $15k reimbursed annually for undergraduate and $25k reimbursed annually for graduate)!
  
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• ASCEND - Student Loan Repayment – Let Devereux help pay back your student loans with student loan repayment! Learn more here.
• Free access to Payactiv
  , a platform to get a portion of your earned wages between pay periods
• Employee Assistance Program and Employee Discounts – Available the first day of employment through Carebridge
• Service Awards – All employees celebrating a five-year increment (5, 10, 15, etc.) anniversary receive taxable compensation in recognition of their long-term commitment to Devereux.

• Bachelor's degree in the field of behavior analysis, mental health, social work, psychology, rehabilitation, special education, or a human services field required

• 1+ year working targeted case management, medical billing/record keeping, utilization management, discharge management, or related clinical service experience. Required
• Strong MS Office Suite experience. Required

• Valid Florida driver's license
• Successfully pass pre-employment medical screenings which include:
  Drug Test.

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

Devereux is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations,…