Community Outreach Specialist

Community Outreach Specialist

This position is responsible for new admissions and developing relationships with partners such as hospitals, facilities, EAPs, clinicians, and colleges and universities. We are currently hiring Outreach Specialists/Community Outreach Specialists for the Sacramento area. This position involves local travel and outreach. Akua Behavioral Health is a nationally recognized mental health and substance abuse treatment program for adults. Accredited by The Joint Commission, Akua meets the highest quality standards for behavioral health and client care.

Job duties and responsibilities include:

• Effectively establish, develop, build and maintain new relationships with partners to identify clients in need of treatment.
• Educate the public and community about Akua's clinical programs and culture.
• Promote and raise awareness of Akua at conferences, community meetings, seminars, events, and maintain a positive relationship within the community and public.
• Possess knowledge of clinical modalities, delivery of treatment, interventions and program functions.
• Design, implement and manage strategies for referral source market penetration.
• Work collaboratively with the clinical and admissions teams.
• Strategic travel/call completion to maintain relationships with current and new prospective referral sources.
• Achieve all internal goals to maximize awareness of Akua.
• Maintain frequency of contact by exceeding daily/weekly/monthly sales activities quota.

Qualifications include:

• Education: Bachelor's or equivalent degree (Required)
• Minimum of 2 years Behavioral Health Outreach Experience (Preferred)
• Valid Driver License - Driving and/or local travel is an essential requirement of the position, as is a clean driving record (Required)
• Excellent communication and customer service skills is required, must be organized and reliable.

We are seeking hungry enthusiastic individuals who want to learn, grow and produce results.