RN Behavioral Health - Clinical Educator & Intake Coordinator

Your job is more than a job.

We’re seeking a compassionate, organized, and clinically knowledgeable Registered Nurse (RN) to join our team as an RN Clinical Education & Intake Coordinator. This is a dynamic dual-role position for a behavioral health professional who enjoys both educating and supporting clinical staff and helping patients access the right care.

In this role, you’ll use your behavioral health expertise to provide high-quality education to staff while coordinating the patient intake process for individuals seeking or requiring behavioral health services. You’ll play an important role in ensuring patients are connected with appropriate services in a timely, organized, and compassionate manner.

What You’ll Do

Clinical Education

• Provide high-quality clinical education and training to staff.
• Support staff in developing and maintaining behavioral health knowledge and clinical competencies.
• Share current best practices and clinical guidance to promote safe, effective, patient-centered care.
• Serve as a clinical resource and support for staff as behavioral health needs arise.

Patient Intake & Care Coordination

• Oversee the intake process for patients seeking or requiring behavioral health services.
• Gather and assess relevant patient information to help determine appropriate services and level of care.
• Coordinate with clinical and other members of the care team to facilitate timely access to appropriate treatment.
• Communicate clearly and compassionately with patients, families, referral sources, and members of the healthcare team.
• Help ensure a smooth transition from intake to the appropriate behavioral health services.

What You’ll Bring

Education

• Required: Associate degree.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree.

Experience

• Required: At least 2 years of behavioral health specialty experience.

Licensure & Certification

• Required: Current Registered Nurse (RN) license.

Skills & Qualities

• Strong clinical knowledge and understanding of behavioral health.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational and time-management abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
• Compassionate, patient-centered approach to care.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with patients, families, referral sources, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong ability to educate, coach, and support clinical staff.
• Sound clinical judgment and problem-solving skills.

Why This Role Matters

This position offers a unique opportunity to make an impact in two essential areas of behavioral healthcare: strengthening the knowledge and skills of the clinical team while helping patients access the care they need.

If you’re an RN with behavioral health experience who enjoys teaching, coordinating care, problem-solving, and helping people navigate their path to treatment, we’d love to hear from you.

WORK SHIFT:

Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.
Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary.

Lakeview Hospital, the center of LCMC Health’s extraordinary community of care on the Northshore, provides the only Level II trauma center in St. Tammany Parish. Along with our signature healthcare and wellness services, we continuously adopt the latest treatments, technologies, and medical innovations to better serve our patients. Learn more about Lakeview Hospital and our nationally recognized standards of excellence for heart, stroke, orthopedic, and women’s care.

Your extras
• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do.

You are welcome here.
LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

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About Us

About LCMC Health

One-of-a-kind care comes from one-of-a-kind people. At LCMC Health, our people are the magic ingredient that makes our care so extra-extraordinary. We are compassionate, driven, and dedicated to bringing a little something extra to healthcare and to the people of New Orleans and beyond.

If you’re the kind of person who believes that our community deserves the best and that healthcare needs a little more heart, we want you to be a part of our family. From medical roles to administrative positions, every person on our team plays a part in our mission: to provide health, care, and education beyond extraordinary. Let’s make every day extraordinary, together.