Assistant Director of Admissions

Assistant Admissions Director

Join our team at CenterPointe Columbia! CenterPointe Hospital of Columbia is a psychiatric hospital that provides life-changing care for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors. Located in Columbia, Missouri, our state-of-the-art facility offers a wide range of mental health and addiction programming designed to meet our patients' diverse needs.

Our inpatient programming serves people of all ages, providing crucial crisis intervention services for our community. The outpatient programming we provide for adolescents and adults is an excellent step-down option after someone completes inpatient treatment.

Whatever level of care someone takes part in, they receive individualized treatment that we tailor specifically to them. Our goal is to help each of our patients achieve healing, and we do that by working closely with every patient to find the path to healing that's right for them.

Essential Functions :

• Provide leadership to the Admissions Department and cultivate the function of the department as an integrated team.
• Implement the strategic plan of the business development and marketing department as it pertains to admission to the facility and direct potential clients to treatment.
• Provide leadership in addressing quality management issues related to crisis triage, evaluation, intake, and admission to the facility.
• Assign / distribute scheduled evaluations, intakes, or admissions as dictated by request and hospital census.
• Conduct quality assurance and quality improvement programs for all crisis triage, evaluation, intake, and admission services.
• Perform follow-up communication functions and generate recommendations for organizational leadership.
• Provide orientation, in-service, and continuing education programs for department staff and other internal positions responsible for crisis triage and / or evaluation services.
• Serve as a clinical liaison with referral sources.
• Work to improve efficiency and quality in delivering services within the department, responsible for developing and meeting departmental goals and objectives.
• Ensure that the department is up to date on and compliant with new laws and regulations.
• Train and supervise staff.
• For assigned shift will plan, assign, supervise, and perform required duties to ensure patient safety and the efficiency of the department.
• Prioritization of potential admissions, considering patient needs and the facility's capability and capacity to meet that needs in the most appropriate manner.
• Knowledge of appropriate clinical assessment, diagnoses, and interventions with patients.
• Provide guidance and direction to staff and encourage / build mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
• Ensure that EMTALA log, if applicable, is completed for each patient seen by admissions.
• Participate in staff training by serving as a preceptor for new admission team employees.
• Demonstrate a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude toward customers always. When patient needs are not met, acknowledge and work to resolve complaints. Recognize that patient safety is a top priority.

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While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances (e.g. emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.

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