**Job Description:** The Assessment and Referral Specialist Lead is a crucial, dynamic team member supporting the inpatient and emergency departments. This full-time, 40-hour-per-week role is focused on leading the team by serving as the subject matter expert, offering coaching opportunities, managing the schedule, and ensuring compliance with state audits and paperwork requirements. In addition to these leadership responsibilities, the Lead also engages in direct patient care, providing substance abuse counseling, crisis intervention, and addressing other emergent needs that arise for patients. This role is vital in delivering comprehensive care across departments, contributing significantly to patients' overall well-being and recovery. **As an Assessment Referral Specialist Lead you need to know how to:** + Perform comprehensive psychiatric and chemical dependency evaluations for patients + Complete an Intermountain Health Behavioral Health Assessment, obtain collateral information when necessary, and develop diagnoses, risk assessment, and treatment plan recommendations + Provide appropriate recommendations for outpatient treatment or admission to inpatient services. + Work closely with the patient, Behavioral Health team, physicians, and inpatient units in planning and organizing admissions. + Coordinate the business management of providing patient care services, including verifying patient demographics, identifying ability to pay for services, verifying insurance benefits, and pre-certifying services. **Minimum Qualifications** + Masters Degree or equivalent in nursing, social work, psychology, counseling, or other human services field, required + Minimum of three (3) years of experience in psychiatric and chemical dependency assessments, required + Current professional license to practice in Colorado or ability to obtain, as a PsyD, PhD, EdPsy, RN, LAC, LMFT, LPC, or LCSW, required + Mandatory Crisis Management Training, required within one (1) year of hire + Current BLS certification endorsed by the American Heart Association, required **Physical Requirements:** Ongoing need for employee to see and read information to utilize a wide variety of information including organizing and completing documentation and forms, accessing and entering computer information, and identifying needs and urgent issues.- and -Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.- and -Operate computers and other office equipment requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.- and -Remain sitting or standing for long periods of time to perform work on a computer, telephone, or other equipment.- and -May require lifting and transporting objects and office supplies, bending, kneeling and reaching. **Location:** Saint Joseph Hospital **Work City:** Denver **Work State:** Colorado **Scheduled Weekly Hours:** 40 The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $37.46 - $57.80 We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged. Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho, Nevada, and Utah based caregivers (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/employee-benefits/) , and for our Colorado, Montana, and Kansas based caregivers (http://www.sclhealthbenefits.org) ; and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/diversity/) . Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. All positions subject to close without notice.