Behavioral Access Clinician
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Saint Luke’s North Hospital seeks a part-time weekend Behavioral Health Clinician to provide emergency behavioral health assessments in collaboration with medical teams. The clinician supports crisis response, discharge planning, referrals, and patient and family education across hospital and clinic settings, including by telemedicine. The position covers Saturdays and Sundays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Saint Luke's North Smithville | 601 S Hwy 169 | Smithville | MO
Part time
JobReq0061041
Job Description
Saint Luke's North Hospital is seeking a part-time weekend Behavioral Health Clinician to join our team!
A licensed Masters degree level professional who provides emergency level behavioral health assessments in collaboration with a medical team of physicians registered nurses and psychiatrists in multiple medical settings throughout the region. Highly trained behavioral health professional who demonstrates autonomy and critical thinking skills and consultation in handling emergent psychiatric crises. Provides timely acute psychiatric assessments and consultations to medical units served whether on site or via telemed equipment. Responds to all needs and requests in a timely manner. Advises healthcare team for complex discharge planning and next level of care and placement issues and follow-up. Provides resources to community callers including individuals, medical staff, community agencies and other hospitals. Assists with providing patient and family education.
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Position will cover every Saturday and Sunday from 7a-7p
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Completes Mental Health Assessments for patients in the Emergency Room, on Medical Floors or in a SLHS Clinic.
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Works with hospital providers and psychiatrists to create a discharge disposition for patients.
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Works with patients and families to complete a Crisis Safety Plan as needed.
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Handles referral requests from outside hospitals and completes placement process for admission to the inpatient behavioral health unit.
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Assists community members with mental health resources.
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Provides crisis services to community callers to ensure safety.
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Must be licensed in MO and KS. Certification required could be LPC, LMSW, or LCSW.
Job Requirements
Applicable Experience:
Less than 1 year
Licensed Masters Social Worker (MO) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
Master's Degree
Job Details
Part Time
Day (United States of America)
Saint Luke’s Health System includes 18 hospitals and campuses across the Kansas City region, home care and hospice, behavioral health care, dozens of physician practices, a life care senior living community, and more. Find out more about what Saint Luke’s offers:
http://www.saintlukeskc.org/about-saint-lukes
Are you interested in staying up to date on openings at Saint Luke’s Health System? Simply sign up for job alerts at https://careers.saintlukeskc.org/job-alerts When we have opportunities that meet your interests, you will receive an email with the job details.
Saint Luke’s Health System values our employees and we encourage them to apply to any internal openings. If you are a current Saint Luke's Health System employee, please apply through your Workday account by typing "Find Jobs" in the top left corner search bar. You can also follow the link below to the current internal career site to apply.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,812 open Behavioral Health jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$70–101K/yr414 salary ranges
- US median$24–31/hr717 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 69 open Behavioral Health jobs in Missouri and 1,812 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Missouri
- BJC HealthCare14 open
- Truman Medical Centers11 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 (926 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 430 of the 1,812 open Behavioral Health jobs (24%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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