Behavioral Health Resource Specialist
Saint Louis, MOFull-time$39–64K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
St. Louis Children’s Hospital is seeking a Behavioral Health Resource Specialist to connect patients, families, providers, and behavioral health resources. The specialist receives provider referrals, assesses behavioral health needs, and facilitates connections to services and support. The role serves youth in crisis and identifies resources in the St. Louis region. It is a Monday–Friday position with opportunities to work remotely.
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Full job description
City/State: Saint Louis, Missouri
Categories: Education
Job Status: Full-Time
Req ID : 118946
Pay Range: $39,145.60 – $63,710.40 / year (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)
Additional Information About the Role
St. Louis Children's Hospital has an opportunity for a Behavioral Health Resource Specialist. This role serves as a key connection point between patients, families, providers, and behavioral health resources. This role requires strong knowledge of mental health disorders, treatment modalities, and community-based behavioral health services. The specialist receives referrals from providers within Children's Hospital and assesses the individual's behavioral health needs, and facilitates appropriate connections to services and support.
Monday-Friday position with opportunities to work remotely.
Overview
St. Louis Children’s Hospital is dedicated to improving the health and lives of children. As one of the top-ranked children’s hospitals in the country, St. Louis Children’s provides care in more than 50 specialty areas through a dedicated team of physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers. Along with inpatient and outpatient medical care, the hospital offers education, wellness and injury-prevention programs to fulfill its mission to “do what’s right for kids.”
Providing comprehensive, high-quality care and serving as an advocate for children has been St. Louis Children’s commitment since its inception in 1879. Today, the hospital serves patients and families across a 300-mile service area, and has seen patients from all 50 states and more than 80 countries.
St. Louis Children’s consistently ranks among America’s Best Children’s Hospitals by U.S.News & World Report in all surveyed categories. In 2021, St. Louis Children’s was one of eight children’s hospitals to rank in the top 25 of all 10 specialties. The hospital’s academic and physician partner, Washington University School of Medicine, is one of the top-ranked medical schools in the United States. Since 2005, St. Louis Children’s has been designated as a Magnet® hospital for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center® (ANCC).
Preferred Qualifications
Role Purpose
Educator and resource liaison for youth in crisis by facilitating care to youth through their parents and physician support systems. Identify and access resources available to support youth and mental health care in the St. Louis region.
Responsibilities
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Obtains and documents caller demographics and brief description of calls.
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Provides age-appropriate care by identifying physical, psychosocial and developmental needs, adapting recommendations accordingly.
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Involves parent, guardian and physician in plan of care and decision making process.
Minimum Requirements
Education
- Bachelor's Degree
- Education/related
Experience
- <2 years
Supervisor Experience
- No Experience
Preferred Requirements
Education
- Master's Degree
- Education/Psych/Social Work
Benefits and Legal Statement
BJC Total Rewards
At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.
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Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
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Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
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Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
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401(k) plan with BJC match
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Tuition Assistance available on first day
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BJC Institute for Learning and Development
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Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
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Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
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Adoption assistance
To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary (https://assets.jibecdn.com/prod/bjc/0.0.331/assets/2026%20Benefits%20Summary\_Final.pdf) .
*Not all benefits apply to all jobs
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer
How this job compares
Set against the 1,850 open Behavioral Health jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$39–64K/yr
- US median$70–101K/yr446 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $51K, is 39% below the US median midpoint ($84K) — in the lowest quarter of Behavioral Health salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 61 open Behavioral Health jobs in Missouri and 1,850 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Missouri
- BJC HealthCare (this employer)13 open
- Truman Medical Centers10 open
- SSM Health6 open
- Experience
- Behavioral Health postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (1,006 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 677 of the 1,850 open Behavioral Health jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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