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COORDINATOR THERAPIST

HCA Healthcare

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Compensation
No compensation found
Location
Fort Pierce, FL
Work Authorization
Not specified

Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

HCA Healthcare is hiring a COORDINATOR THERAPIST. The Coordinator Therapist role at HCA Healthcare in Fort Pierce, FL manages Baker Act involuntary psychiatric examinations, ensuring legal compliance, coordinating patient flow, and acting as a liaison among medical, legal, and court teams while maintaining accurate documentation.

Key focus areas include Track legal timeframes, rights notifications, and paperwork for involuntary holds, Coordinate admissions, transfers, and discharges for behavioral health units, and Communicate with physicians, nurses, social workers, and court systems.

Successful candidates bring Bachelor's Degree In Therapeutic Recreation, Psychology, Social Work, Or Closely Related Behavioral Health Field, State Licensure, and Licensed Mental Health Professional. Important skills include Treatment Planning, Assessments & Reporting, Patient Advocacy & Education, Process Coordination, Baker Act Knowledge, and Marchman Act Knowledge.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Treatment PlanningAssessments & ReportingPatient Advocacy & EducationProcess CoordinationBaker Act KnowledgeMarchman Act KnowledgeFlorida Mental Health LawsPatient AdvocacyPsychiatric Patient Care

Qualifications

1-2 Years Psychiatric ExperiencePatient Advocacy ExperiencePsychiatric Setting Background

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: COORDINATOR THERAPIST

Job Summary and Qualifications

A Baker Act Coordinator at HCA manages and tracks involuntary psychiatric examinations under Florida's Baker Act. They ensure legal compliance, coordinate patient assessment and placement, communicate with legal and medical teams, and oversee documentation and discharge planning.]

Core Responsibilities

Qualifications & Skills

  • 1-2 yrs experience with psychiatric patients with knowledge of patients' rights, Baker Act and Marchman Act

  • Experience with patient advocacy

  • Experience: Background in a psychiatric setting

  • Knowledge: Strong familiarity with Florida mental health laws and Baker Act criteria.

Benefits

Rehabiliation Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

  • Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

  • Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

  • Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

  • Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

  • Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

  • Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital is a 380-bed acute-care hospital. Offering a full range of services. We are home to the most experienced Heart Institute on the Treasure Coast. Lawnwood Hospital provides interventional and therapeutic care, including open-heart surgery. Other hospital services include labor/delivery, pediatrics, orthopedics, oncology, nuclear medicine, adult and pediatric emergency services, and diagnostic services. We also offer inpatient, and outpatient surgical services.

Lawnwood Hospital is a designated Certified Primary Stroke Center. The Physical Rehabilitation Center is CARF accredited. We are a Level II Trauma Center. We are verified by the American College of Surgeons. We offer a freestanding ER in Vero Beach. We provide emergency treatment for adults and children. We also offer the area’s only Level III Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units. At HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital patients come first – no matter what! We invite you to work in a fast-paced environment while enjoying a vibrant, laid-back quality of life.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our COORDINATOR THERAPIST opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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