Behavioral Health & Reentry Program Coordinator - Masters

You Matter

• Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved• Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture• Excellent career growth opportunities

Join us and find a career that supports:• Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging• Autonomy in a warm team environment• Growth and training

 

Perks and Benefits In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including: • DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it! • Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching• Company paid life insurance• Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

 

*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service. 

Why Us

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.

If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

 

Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan. 

 

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.

How you make a difference

The Program Coordinator is an experienced clinician responsible for providing oversight and guidance to the Care Coordinators, Mental Health Facilitators, and Recreation Specialists while serving as a Care Coordinator. They must demonstrate competence in verbal de-escalation, crisis intervention, treatment plan knowledge, and recreational interventions, and serve as a role model for other staff in these areas. The Program Coordinator must ensure that all aspects of patient care are in compliance with the facility's policies and procedures, as well as all applicable laws and regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinates services of Care Coordinators, Mental Health Facilitators, and Recreation Specialists and serves as the point of contact for the team when interacting with Administration or other facility teams.
• Provides clinical oversight and closely coordinates mental health care with the patient’s treatment team, monitoring patients for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications.
• Provides brief solution-focused interventions, performs post-crisis evaluation debriefing and support services, and seeks to enhance the capacity of patients to address their own needs.
• Participates in regularly scheduled caseload consultation with the treatment team and facilitates patient engagement in mental health care.
• Responsible for coordinating activities related to trainings, trainers, and trainees of Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI).

Additional Details

Candidates should have a Masters Degree and experience coordinating behavioral health, case management, or reentry services for individuals with complex mental health and social needs. Key skills include treatment planning, crisis intervention, motivational interviewing, clinical documentation, staff guidance, and multidisciplinary collaboration. CalAIM experience is especially valuable, including continuity-of-care planning, community referrals, benefits navigation, and coordination of medical, behavioral health, substance use, housing, and social services before release. Correctional healthcare and knowledge of Medi-Cal are strongly preferred.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education 

• Master’s degree in behavioral sciences, social work, or psychology; or 
• Master’s degree in a non-behavioral health field of study with significant course work in behavioral science plus a case-management certificate from a certified and accredited program with a professional school of behavioral science; preferred 

Experience 

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in Mental Health Counseling. 
• Knowledge of the DSM, the chronically mentally ill, and community resources. 
• Consideration to be given for on-the-job experience. 

Licenses/Certifications 

• Must be able to obtain the following: 
• Agency Affiliated Counselor (AAC) certification  
• Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) trainer training 
• Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification  

Compliance 

• Employees are required to maintain their certifications and/or licenses 

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of uniqueness.

 

We celebrate a variety of backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

 

We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.

 

 

 

Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.

 

We are an Affirmative Action Employer in accordance with applicable state and local laws.