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Assessment Specialist, RN

Lifepoint Health·Richmond, Texas

Full Time·On Site·2-5 yrs·Posted 5 days ago
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About the role

The Assessment Specialist conducts comprehensive mental health and substance abuse evaluations to determine the appropriate level of care for patients. They manage the admission process, including triaging safety risks and coordinating with clinical teams and insurance providers.

Title

  • Assessment
  • Specialist,
  • RN
  • Job
  • Type:
  • Full time
  • Schedule:
  • Day shift, 7 am- 7 pm
  • Alternating schedule: Week 1- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday Week 2- Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday Your experience matters! At Westpark Springs, we are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. Here, you’re not just valued as an employee, but as a person. Westpark Springs is a mental health and addiction treatment center located at 6902 S Peek Road in Richmond, Texas. It offers both inpatient and outpatient services for adults, adolescents, and children dealing with psychiatric, substance use, or co-occurring disorders.
  • Here are some key highlights:
  • Comprehensive
  • Programs: Includes inpatient psychiatric care, detox services, and outpatient options like Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP).
  • Specialized
  • Youth
  • Services: Offers tailored treatment for children and teens aged 12–18, with academic support and family involvement to ease reintegration into school and daily life.
  • Dual
  • Diagnosis
  • Expertise: Focuses on treating individuals with both mental health and substance use disorders through evidence-based therapies.
  • Supportive
  • Services: Provides case management, group and family therapy, medication management, and discharge planning to ensure continuity of care. 24/7
  • Availability: Open around the clock for assessments and admissions, with a multidisciplinary team ready to respond to urgent mental health needs. As an Assessment Specialist joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.
  • How you’ll contribute: Receives inquiry calls and assists the caller with scheduling a face-to-face, phone, or tele-assessment—Triages individuals based on safety risk. Assesses or ensures assessment by a qualified mental health professional of patients who present for assessment. Screens for medical and behavioral emergency conditions. Performs a comprehensive assessment and quality therapeutic care to patients seeking treatment for substance abuse, dual diagnosis, or psychiatric or emotional disorders; coordinates with the clinical team/on-call physician to ensure these needs are met at the facility or other appropriate community providers. Interprets treatment to patient and family to help reduce fear and other attitudes obstructing acceptance of care and continuation of treatment. Completes the administrative processes of admission and precertification of care with external payers, as necessary. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Facilitates response to a request for services, including the initial response, the assessment, the referral process, the designation of the appropriate level of care, admission into services, and appropriate follow-up activity. Conducts initial evaluation, initiates the assessment, documents patient symptomology, functioning, and needs, and provides information to MD for LOC determination. Demonstrates excellent customer service skills in assisting patients, physicians, visitors, and coworkers promptly and courteously. Possess clear knowledge of Emergency Detention paperwork and processes and EMTALA. Maintains all preadmission and admission paperwork with accuracy and completes all pre-certification with insurance companies.
  • Qualifications and requirements:
  • Education: Associate's Degree in Nursing required.

Experience

Prior experience in a psychiatric healthcare facility working with adult and geriatric patients preferred. Must have strong clinical assessment skills.

License

RN licensure required.

Additional

Requirements: CPR and CPI certified within 30 days. May be required to work flexible hours and overtime and have the ability to meet typing keyboard expectations. With proper credentials, Specialist may be required to complete vitals check on patients.

About us Westpark Springs is located in Richmond, TX, and is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier® with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestone—your experience matters. EEOC Statement “Westpark Springs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Westpark Springs is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.”

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier.

Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities.

We believe that success is achieved through talented people.

We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.

We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life.

We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.

Requirements

A Master's degree in social work or counseling, or an RN license, is required along with a current clinical license. Candidates should have strong clinical assessment skills and must obtain CPR and CPI certifications within 30 days.

  • postgraduate degree
  • Case Management
  • Customer Service
  • Documentation
  • Treatment Planning
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Triage
  • Patient Evaluation
  • Clinical Assessment
  • Medical Screening
  • Insurance Pre-certification

Posting details

Employment type
Full Time
Work arrangement
On Site
Experience
2-5 yrs
Location
Richmond, Texas
Posted
Jul 22, 2026
Application
Employer website
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Hiring organization

Lifepoint Health

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IndustryHospitals and Health Care
TypePrivately Held
Size1,001-5,000 employees
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Texas behavioral health roles need licensed clinicians

Behavioral-health openings in Texas often favor licensed clinicians because employers need candidates who can step into patient-facing care with minimal onboarding. Competition is shaped by the required master’s degree, Texas license, and preferred psychiatric experience, plus CPR and CPI certifications. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits on this page to save research time, then confirm your license type and highlight any psychiatric or crisis-care experience in your application.

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