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Overview:

Sentara Health is seeking to hire a qualified individual to join our team as a Behavioral Health Navigator.

Overview

The Behavioral Health Navigator serves as a vital resource for patients experiencing psychological distress in a hospital setting to include the Emergency Department Medical Floors and Behavioral Health Unit. This role is dedicated to guiding patients through the oftencomplex behavioral health care system ensuring they receive the appropriate support and treatment they need.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducting initial assessments to determine patients behavioral health needs and identifying appropriate treatment options.

• Connecting patients with mental health providers community resources and support services.

• Coordinating and scheduling followup appointments to ensure continuity of care.

• Addressing potential barriers to treatment such as financial constraints lack of transportation or insurance challenges and working to resolve these obstacles.

• Providing ongoing education and emotional support to patients and their families helping them understand their treatment plans and available resources.

• Collaborating closely with medical staff social workers case managers and other healthcare professionals to facilitate comprehensive care.

• Advocating for patients mental health needs within the healthcare system and the community.

Through compassionate guidance and a patientcentered approach the Behavioral Health Navigator plays a crucial role in improving access to mental health services enhancing patient outcomes and ensuring a seamless transition to appropriate care.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Social Work

Certification/Licensure

• No specific certification or licensure requirements

Experience

• 1 year of healthcare experience delivered in one of the following settings: Acute care longterm care home health hospice Skilled Nursing Facility or communitybased program services

• Experience inNursing Social Work or Human Service Field

Medical Dental Vision plans

Adoption Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10000

Paid Time Off and Sick Leave

Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave

Emergency Backup Care

LongTerm ShortTerm Disability and Critical Illness plans

Life Insurance

401k/403B with Employer Match

Tuition Assistance $5250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education

Student Debt Pay Down $10000

Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development

Pet Insurance

Legal Resources Plan

Colleagues may have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met

Sentara CarePlex Hospital located in Hampton VA is a 224bed technologically advanced acute care facility and Certified Primary Stroke Center. Other features include specialized services in heart and vascular urologic care along with advanced diagnostic and surgical capabilities a hospitalist program and one of the states busiest emergency departments. We are also home to the Orthopedic Hospital at Sentara CarePlex Hospital the areas first dedicated orthopedic hospital. We improve health every day come be a part of the community.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30000member workforce. Diversity inclusion and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission to improve health every day this is a tobaccofree environment.

For positions that are available as remote work Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Kansas Louisiana Maine Maryland Minnesota Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming.