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Lifepoint Health
Carrollton, Texas

Assessment Specialist, Behavioral Health, PRN

PsychiatryPer Diem

Compensation

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Job Description

Schedule:   PRN

Your experience matters

Carrollton Springs Is Part of Lifepoint Health

[https://lifepointhealth.net/locations], a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others.

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

An Assessment Specialist Who Excels in This Role

  • Facilitates response to a request for services, including the initial response, the assessment, and 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 in a prompt and courteous manner
  • 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 with insurance companies

What We’re Looking For

Applicants should have an Associate’s Degree in Nursing or Master’s Degree in Social Work/Counseling (required).  Additional requirements include:

  • Prior experience in a psychiatric healthcare facility working with adult and geriatric patients preferred. Must have strong clinical assessment skills
  • Current unencumbered Clinical, Social Work or RN license as required by state regulations
  • CPR and De-escalation certification required or obtain with 30 days of hire.

More About Carrollton Springs

Carrollton Springs is a 78-bed behavioral health hospital offering exceptional care to the Carrollton, TX community.

EEOC Statement

“Carrollton Springs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Carrollton 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.

Key Responsibilities

The Assessment Specialist facilitates the entire response process for service requests, including initial contact, assessment, referral, determining the appropriate level of care, and managing admissions and follow-up activities. This role involves conducting initial evaluations, documenting patient symptoms and needs, and providing necessary information to the Medical Doctor for Level of Care determination.

Requirements

Applicants must possess an Associate’s Degree in Nursing or a Master’s Degree in Social Work/Counseling, along with an unencumbered Clinical, Social Work, or RN license as required by state regulations. Prior experience in a psychiatric healthcare facility working with adult and geriatric patients is preferred, and CPR and De-escalation certifications are mandatory upon hire or within 30 days.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

DocumentationEMTALA KnowledgePreadmission PaperworkCPR Certification

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Assessment Specialist, Behavioral Health, PRN at Lifepoint Health a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 15% of all Psychiatry healthcare professional listings evaluated on our platform.

Psychiatry Career Context

In Texas, the Psychiatry weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$194k (106 salary observations; 741 listings), vs ~$178k nationally (2,900 salary observations; 14,827 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-11-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Psychiatry pay on WeekdayDoc is up 8.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

Work-life snapshot

7.2/ 10
Listing-based score

Living in Carrollton

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$373k
Typical market rent
$1,655/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
103.1
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.