Licensed Admissions Clinical Reviewer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $48 - $65 / hour

⏱ Part Time

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TLC Child and Family Services

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1975

🏥 Healthcare

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

Healthcare • Charity • Non-profit

TLC Child and Family Services is a licensed foster family and adoption agency dedicated to supporting vulnerable youth and families during their greatest time of need. They provide various services including foster care and adoption, educational programs like Journey Academy for at-risk youth, young adult housing to assist in independent living, and a range of therapeutic support programs. TLC's mission emphasizes creating healthy, healing environments and experiences for youth and families, particularly focusing on those who face challenges such as LGBTQ+ youth and at-risk individuals.

📋 Description

• Review elevated or clinically complex admission assessments, supporting records, treatment history, and collateral information • Assess clinical presentation, acuity, risk factors, treatment needs, family dynamics, and readiness for residential treatment • Determine clinical appropriateness for admission and identify the Muir Wood program best suited to each prospective client's needs • Approve admissions within established authority and escalate cases requiring additional medical, psychiatric, or executive review • Determine when additional records, assessments, stabilization, safety planning, or a different level of care is necessary before admission • Document admission decisions and the clinical rationale for approval, deferral, escalation, or decline • Communicate with parents and caregivers to clarify clinical history, recent behaviors, safety concerns, family dynamics, and treatment expectations • Consult with referring clinicians, hospitals, schools, and other professionals when additional clinical context is needed • Communicate clinical recommendations and decisions clearly, compassionately, and sensitively • Help families understand requests for additional information, stabilization, safety planning, or alternative treatment recommendations • Serve as a clinical resource to the Admissions team for elevated, complex, or uncertain referrals • Partner with Clinical Directors to assess program fit, current milieu considerations, accommodations, and program capabilities • Communicate relevant clinical risks, precautions, accommodations, and initial treatment priorities to the receiving program before admission • Promote consistent clinical decision-making across programs while accounting for differences in population, capabilities, and current milieu • Participate in case reviews and contribute to improvements in admission criteria, escalation pathways, and clinical review practices • Identify recurring referral trends, clinical gaps, and opportunities to improve assessment quality and admissions processes • Perform pre-admission clinical assessment, consultation, and placement decisions without carrying an ongoing therapy caseload or providing continuing treatment to prospective clients

🎯 Requirements

• Master's degree or higher in social work, marriage and family therapy, counseling, psychology, or a related behavioral health discipline • Active, unrestricted independent clinical license, such as LCSW, LMFT, LPCC/LPC, or licensed psychologist • At least five years of behavioral healthcare experience, including significant experience in adolescent residential treatment • Strong assessment experience with complex clinical presentations, including suicidality, self-harm, aggression, substance use, trauma, eating concerns, neurodivergence, family instability, and elopement risk • Demonstrated ability to make sound clinical placement and risk decisions when information may be incomplete, evolving, or conflicting • Experience collaborating with admissions professionals, families, referring clinicians, and residential program leadership • Excellent clinical documentation and verbal communication skills • Ability to make timely decisions while maintaining appropriate clinical boundaries and escalation practices • Ability to work independently and manage sensitive information with discretion in a remote environment • Preferred: experience as a residential Clinical Director, senior clinician, clinical admissions reviewer, assessment clinician, or comparable clinical decision-making role • Preferred: experience working across multiple residential programs or levels of behavioral healthcare • Preferred: knowledge of adolescent co-occurring mental health and substance use treatment • Preferred: experience assessing neurodivergent adolescents and identifying appropriate accommodations and program supports • Preferred: familiarity with California adolescent residential treatment requirements and standards • Must be able to work from anywhere in the United States, subject to applicable employment and licensing requirements • Responsiveness during scheduled working hours is essential

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Part-time W-2 employment • Predictable schedule of approximately 10–15 hours per week, with opportunity to grow to approximately 16–20 hours per week • Schedule may suit an experienced clinician maintaining a private practice or another compatible part-time role