Program Coordinator- Behavioral Health - FT

Monday- Friday 8:30- 5:00pm

2-3 on call nights a week from 5:00pm-7:00pm

Are you passionate about expanding access to behavioral health services within primary care? Join our growing Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) team as a Program Coordinator, where you’ll play a key role in supporting patients, collaborating with an interdisciplinary care team, and helping advance innovative, evidence-based care models. This role requires the ability to effectively balance direct patient care with program leadership responsibilities, seamlessly transitioning between clinical support and operational oversight. Strong multitasking skills are essential, along with the ability to support timekeeping, training, reporting, and staff development initiatives. You’ll partner closely with BHI leadership while coordinating essential program functions that enhance patient care, team effectiveness, and ongoing professional development.

Essential Functions

• Demonstrates knowledge of hospital and department standards that reflect TJC and Medicaid standards for the operation of an adult partial hospitalization program.
• Collaborates with MD and other clinical team members regarding patient needs and treatment plan.
• Assesses patient, records and reports pertinent data to the physician and other members of the patient's clinical team.
• Utilizes crisis intervention techniques when needed.
• Provides patient and family education with specific references to emotional health as evidenced by various behaviors.
• Coordinates team member training and development for his/her program.
• Displays strong leadership and managerial skills.
• Demonstrates clinical competence in procedures and patient care based on established theory; maintains quality assurance standards for patient care.

Master's Degree in Social Work, Professional Counseling, Psychology, or a comparable human services field that maintains appropriate professional accreditation required; fulll licensure required or a Master's level Registered Nurse with board certification in psychiatric, mental health nursing required.

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Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.