Hospital Liaison Lead (62281)

Hospital Liaison Lead

Stith Center: 791 Chambers Road, Aurora, CO 80011 - Aurora, CO 80011

Overview

Salary Range $22.04 - $33.07 Hourly Position Type 1 FTE (40hrs/wk, benefited) Job Shift 3 Day Hybrid - 3 days Remote Education Level Bachelor's Degree

Description

Aurora Mental Health & Recovery (AMHR) is seeking a Hospital Liaison Lead to provide leadership, training, and support to our Hospital Liaison Services team while also fulfilling the essential functions of a hospital liaison. This role facilitates seamless communication and coordination between AMHR clinical teams and external psychiatric inpatient facilities, including CSUs, ATUs, and psychiatric hospitals, ensuring effective discharge planning and referrals. The liaison lead will oversee staff interactions, streamline processes, and support collaborative efforts across the agency's adult intensive services division, fostering high levels of peer support and teamwork. The ideal candidate is an experienced professional with a background in hospital settings, strong communication skills, and a comprehensive understanding of mental health and treatment systems. If you're passionate about helping underserved populations and thrive in a collaborative environment, we encourage you to apply!

Schedule. This position will work Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and is eligible for a hybrid model that allows for a mix of remote and in-office work, with an expectation of being in the office two days per week and working from home three days. This schedule may be adjusted based on training, client, or community needs.

Bilingual Language Differential Pay. Employees who successfully pass a language assessment are eligible to receive bilingual differential pay. This differential is provided as a fixed amount of $3,000 per calendar year, paid on a bi?weekly basis across 26 pay periods, and prorated based on hire date and full?time equivalency (FTE). Eligibility and payment are subject to the language requirements of the position and the employee's demonstrated proficiency in the language.

Salary for this role. The starting wage is based on experience and company equity. Paid bi-weekly.

• $22.04 - 33.07 per hour

Essential Functions :

• Coordinate with manager and director to develop, implement, and maintain a training process for role specific skills of all other hospital liaisons. Support the onboarding and training steps for all other hospital liaisons.
• Develop a workflow for organizing and assigning tasks and shared responsibilities amongst the hospital liaison staff. Organize and delegate hospital assignments for care coordination.
• Organize and assume primary role for ensuring completion of hospital liaison data reports including daily data reports to Colorado Access (business days), delegating when appropriate, and ensure completion of the Fort Logan fiscal year summary report.
• Manage the e-fax and email referral system ensuring that referral reports are appropriately received, distributed amongst the liaison staff, and responded to daily.
• Serve as primary point of contact representing the hospital liaison staff to external collaborating agencies.
• Provide administrative support and oversight to the hospital liaison staff regarding collaborative process steps for working with external hospital systems.
• Receiving communication from referring treatment agencies via phone, email or fax.
• Responding to referring individuals and agencies in a timely fashion, usually within the same day, to discuss referral needs.
• Providing a level of care assessment and determination for purposes of uniting clients with the treatment team that will provide the level of care needed upon discharge from the external treating facility.
• Monitoring the e-fax for clinical referral data, uploading the data to the client's electronic record, and forwarding the clinical referral data to the assigned treatment team.
• Maintain a data tracking record with the referral information to include the day of referral and scheduled follow up appointment.
• Working with assigned hospitals to coordinate referrals of clients from acute psychiatric treatment units to other facilities for more intensive and longer-term services.
• Interacting with the Colorado Access liaisons to coordinate treatment and meet the 7 days post hospital follow up engagement goal.
• Maintain regular communication with Aurora MHC treatment teams to be fully aware of the internal referral processes used to set clients up for their needed services.
• On occasion provide education to internal and external referring individuals to assist for a smooth and collaborative referral process.
• Work closely with primary supervisor to problem solve referral issues as they occur. This needs to occur as close to possible in real time to expedite the successful referral to post-hospital and ATU services.
• Coordinate the referral process for certified clients including assisting with setting up the paperwork referral components, scheduling doctor to doctor consultations for referral of certified clients and working with the intensive services teams to coordinate the team assignment.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• Preferred: Master's in a clinical human service
• No previous experience is required. Strong interest in working in Mental Health arena.
• Knowledge of theories and evidence-based practices related to clinical treatment.
• Solid understanding of mental illness and treatment modalities within multidisciplinary approach.

Required Vaccination and TB Test. At AMHR the health and safety of our clients and staff are our top priorities. As part of this commitment, all employees are required to receive an annual influenza (flu) shot and present a negative TB test result before their first day of work. Proof of both the flu shot and negative TB test must be provided on your first day of employment. Medical and religious exemptions can be requested if necessary.

Benefits:

• Health insurance: Kaiser
• Dental, vision, and flexible spending accounts (dependent care & health care)
• Company paid basic life and AD&D insurance
• Long-term disability coverage*
• 403(b) retirement plan which provides 100% vesting immediately, and matching contributions up to 4% after one year of employment
• Accrued Vacation pay up to 12 days and accrued Sick Pay up to 12 days per year, plus 1 floating holiday (hours calculated pro-rata basis based on full-time equivalency)
• Holidays: The company observes 11 designated holidays each year. Exception: Employees working in 24/7 programs or facilities are scheduled to work their regular shifts if the holiday falls on their scheduled workday. In these cases, employees will receive their regular pay for hours worked plus holiday pay.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Voluntary term life insurance
• Short term disability*

*Eligible for benefit if working 30 hours per week or more

Our Mission. Mission: Deeply rooted in our diverse community, we deliver state-of-the-art care and meaningful outcomes that impact emotional well-being and addiction recovery.

Vision: To foster hope and healing through compassionate, quality care.

Core Values: Passionate caring; Rising to the challenge; Honoring and respecting all persons; Believing in resilience; Putting clients and community first; Commitment to collaboration and teamwork

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Aurora Mental Health & Recovery and subsidiaries (AMHR) are dedicated to the principles of equal employment opportunity. We prohibit unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees on the basis of age 40 and over, race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and length, protective hairstyles), sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, color, religion, national origin, disability, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law. We do not tolerate discrimination in any form or context including harassment or exclusion.

Aurora Mental Health & Recovery