Fbh Healthcare Intake Coordinator

Health Care Intake Coordinator Opportunity FBH Healthcare Intake Coordinator UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA
Interested in supplementing your current work or want to work part-time only?

PART-TIME VARIABLE HOURS (2-10 HRS) FROM WEEK TO WEEK

Catholic Community Services, Family Behavioral Health is looking for an Intake Coordinator who wants to join our team of innovators who continually "push the envelope" and challenge traditional thinking in Behavioral Health.

We are a values-driven organization, providing family‑oriented mental health care for children, youth and families in their own homes and community. Our enthusiastic clinical teams provide whatever is needed to help children and youth remain safely in their own homes with their family, restoring hope, providing intense mental health services and supports, and helping to strengthen family unity. With sites located in Tukwila, Tacoma, Olympia, Shelton, Bremerton, Aberdeen, Yelm, Vancouver, and Portland Oregon, we offer comprehensive intensive, wrap‑around mental health services to a diverse population for youth and families.

We employ nearly 800 caring and compassionate employees.

Compassion, Diversity, Strength‑Based Approach, Social Justice & Our Staff!

• Starting Pay Range: $41.64 - 46.32 per hour

• Pro‑rated paid sick leave
• Retirement Plans: 403‑B Employee Savings Plan
• Employer Contribution Pension, if eligibility requirements are met

• Extensive training in multiple clinical approaches as well as trainings in related areas
• Daily and weekly supervision with your Clinical Supervisor

We strive to help children and families live together safely and securely with hope and promise. We serve as a catalyst for change when appropriate, challenging long‑standing service traditions in community behavioral health. We behave with humility, passion for our mission, and compassion and respectful interactions. We value learning and offer alternatives and we stand strong to help child‑serving systems understand our alternative paradigm while strengthening partnerships.

We do not compromise our values.

This position is the first clinical contact for children, youth and families seeking referral and access to intensive level behavioral health services. The Intake Specialist is responsible for completing the behavioral health intake process as prescribed by Medicaid and WAC for each child assigned which includes: completing a diagnostic formulation using clinical and diagnostic assessment tools, gathering child and family medical and behavioral health information, completing complex behavioral health intake documentation and determining initial treatment areas for intensive behavioral health services.

The Intake Specialist will meet with the referred child and their family in the home, hospital or other community setting, engaging with the family, providing support as needed throughout the clinical intake process. The Intake Specialist will track all intake data and diagnostic information, utilization and response time frames and enter data into an Electronic Health record. Work is performed under the supervision of the Clinical Supervisor or Clinical Manager.

This position will be based out of FBH Westside, University Place office. This position requires scheduling flexibility to meet the needs of youth and families served. The services we offer will be provided in community‑based settings and in family homes. Work is performed under the supervision of the Clinical Supervisor or Clinical Manager.

• Utilize clinical assessment and engagement skills to meet with child, youth and family in the home, hospital or other community settings to gather demographic, clinical/situation information and assess for service need and intensity.
• Complete behavioral health clinical assessment tools including the CANS Assessment.
• Demonstrate familiarity with DSM criteria for clinical mental health diagnoses and formulate a clinical diagnosis based on client background and presenting behavioral health issues and concerns.
• Engage the child and family during the referral session, assessing for immediate safety…