Clinical Liaison (CL) PRN

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About this role

Coordinate intake and pre-admission screening for acute rehabilitation, assess admission suitability, and build referral relationships. The role involves routine travel to referring facilities and community partners.

What could you bring from clinical work?

• Nurses: Your experience assessing patients and coordinating care transitions could help with pre-admission screening and communication with referring facilities.
• PTs: Assessing patients' rehabilitation needs could help you conduct on-site assessments to determine suitability for acute rehabilitation admission.
• OTs and SLPs: If you've explained rehabilitation participation to patients and families, that experience may help you educate prospective patients about rehabilitation options and expectations.
• Social workers: Coordinating discharge plans and community resources could help you serve as the initial contact for external case managers and discharge planners.

Full job description from Lifepoint Health

Clinical Liaison Position Summary

Builds and maintains referral relationships to drive appropriate admissions to the hospital. Coordinates the intake and pre-admission screening process, conducts on-site clinical assessments to determine suitability for acute rehabilitation, educates patients/families on services and participation requirements, and serves as the primary external contact for case managers, discharge planners, physicians, and payors.

Essential Functions

• Assist and coordinate the intake and pre-admission screening process.
• Perform on-site clinical assessments (typically at referring facilities) to determine appropriateness for admission.
• Educate patients and families on rehabilitation options, level of care, and expectations for participation.
• Serve as the initial contact for external case management, discharge planners, payors, and hospital partners.
• Conduct face-to-face, in-service educational visits with physicians, case managers, and other professionals.
• Inform and educate community decision-makers about the hospital and acute rehabilitation services to develop census through direct outreach.
• Document screenings, decisions, and communications accurately and timely in EMR and tracking systems.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional Information

Role involves routine travel to referring facilities and community partners; valid driver’s license and clean driving record required. Success measures include timeliness of screenings, conversion rates, and quality of referral relationships. Works closely with admissions, nursing, therapy, and case management to ensure smooth transitions and payer authorization compliance.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Licensure/Certification: Current clinical licensure required (e.g., RN, PT, OT, SLP, MSW) per state requirements.

Experience: Prior marketing/sales experience preferred; prior clinical experience with demonstrated assessment skills and EMR proficiency preferred; formal sales training preferred.

Skills: Excellent oral and written communication, strong interpersonal and presentation skills, customer relationship building, sound clinical judgment, organization/time-management, and basic computer/data-entry proficiency.

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.