# Behavioral Health Patient Navigator

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: St George
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $20.82 - $31.67 per hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Behavioural Health Patient Navigator to join our team at Intermountain Health St George Regional Hospital. As a Behavioural Health Patient Navigator, you will work on the inpatient psychiatric unit and assist patients referred from Psychiatry, Emergency Department, and other units in achieving their discharge goals for follow-up treatment.

**Essential Functions:**

- Meet with patients in need of behavioural health services who have been referred from inpatient units, Emergency Departments, and Access Centres to review their discharge plan.

- Assist patients in connecting with referred resources.

- Initiate timely follow-up calls with the patient after their discharge to ensure they are following their discharge plan and receiving maximum benefit from available resources.

- Document discharge plans in the patient record.

- Gather needed data and complete other required logs timely and accurately.

- Coordinate patient care needs with care providers and other hospital resources, including attending meetings where patient needs may be addressed or need to be represented.

- Establish and maintain an accurate resource list of treatment facilities and community resources, updating the list as needed.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

- Experience adapting quickly when the need arises.

- Knowledge of available behavioural health community resources.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Three years of experience working with Behavioural Health Patients in a behavioural health care setting.

- Post high school education in a related field of study.

- Experience with discharge planning for behavioural health patients.

**Physical Requirements:**

- Hearing/Listening, Speaking, Sitting, Seeing, Manual Dexterity, Standing, Walking.

**Benefits:**

- Benefits eligible

- Competitive salary range: $20.82 - $31.67 per hour

## Skills

### Required
- behavioural health
- communication
- discharge planning
- patient care

### Nice to have
- three years of experience working with Behavioural Health Patients
- post high school education in a related field of study
- discharge planning for behavioural health patients

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