Posting Note: This position is to cover the expansion of universal suicide screening, assessment, and treatment across the medical floors.
This position is based at our Main Thomas campus and includes virtual coverage of Arrowhead Hospital. The role follows a 7-on/7-off schedule, running Tuesday through Monday, with handoff to the incoming provider on Monday afternoons. Due to the nature of the schedule and responsibilities, strong clinical autonomy and independent decision-making skills are essential.
Position Summary:
The clinician in this role provides timely, expert response to patients who screen positive—both acute and non-acute—on the Ask Suicide-Screening Questionnaire (ASQ) across inpatient medical floors. Responsibilities include prompt triage, comprehensive risk assessment, and delivery of ongoing therapeutic care.
In addition to consult coordination and clinical evaluation, the clinician will employ evidence-based therapeutic interventions focused on safety planning, means reduction, and discharge planning. This includes facilitating transitions of care and engaging patients and families in treatment planning as an independently licensed provider.
The role functions as part of an interdisciplinary team, delivering a continuum of care that spans inpatient and outpatient services. It requires proficiency in evidence-based treatment modalities, mandated reporting, resource navigation (including financial and community supports), advocacy within external systems, and collaboration with medical staff.
This position is evolving in response to patient volume trends and system-wide data analysis, with the goal of optimizing preventative care and maintaining responsiveness to the dynamic needs of our patients, families, and hospital system.
This position provides consult coordination, clinical assessment, therapeutic interventions, care coordination and transition planning to patients and families as an independently licensed clinician. This position participates as an interdisciplinary team member providing interventions with the patient/family that include a range of care on an outpatient or inpatient basis. The position requires knowledge of evidence-based treatment modalities and the ability to use that knowledge to assist patients and families in achieving therapeutic goals. This position requires knowledge of mandated reporter responsibilities; use of financial, community and other resource networks; ability to advocate with outside systems; and collaborate with medical staff. This position may provide individual, group, and/or family therapeutic interventions for an assigned caseload. In addition to therapeutic interventions with patients and families, the position must be able to provide appropriate clinical documentation and recommendations to insurance reviewers, referral sources and to other governmental agencies as requested. This position receives administrative supervision from division leadership, and clinical direction from the Manager, Mental Health Therapy, and Division Chief, Psychology.