Behavioral Health Clinician – Crisis Assessment & Care Navigation

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$38.65 an hour

The week · per this posting · Tuesday – Saturday

Ask the employer about call expectations, weekend coverage, nights and shift pattern and time off.

Posted 3mo ago · Verified live

Job Description

About Lyra Health

Lyra Health is a leading provider of evidence-based mental health care, serving more than 20 million people globally in partnership with employers and more than 100 million through health plan and partner relationships.

The company has delivered more than 15 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 35 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness, and cost efficiency.

Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs.

Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.

About the Role

As a Behavioral Health Clinician, you’ll be doing the important, meaningful work of managing crises, providing in-the-moment phone support to clients with complex behavioral health issues, ensuring client safety, and connecting clients to high-quality, evidence-based providers and facilities. This position does not involve providing in-person services or therapy but instead focuses on supporting clients in connecting to care, exclusively by phone and email.

This role may be for you if you are an excellent written and verbal communicator, an ace at time management, skilled with crisis management, and passionate about connecting individuals to excellent care. It’s important that you’re comfortable adopting new technology platforms and have a growth mindset. We’re all here for the same goal: to improve access to the highest quality mental health care for our clients–when they need it most.

  • You must be able to work the following shift(s):
  • Tuesday - Saturday 9:30am - 6pm PST (10:30am - 7pm MT / 11:30am - 8pm CT / 12:30pm - 9pm ET)
  • Sunday - Thursday 9:30am - 6pm PT (10:30am - 7pm MT / 11:30am - 8pm CT / 12:30pm - 9pm ET)
  • Weekends include a 10% shift pay differential!

This role's internal title is: Clinical Care Navigator. The position can be carried out fully remote/virtually. Remote candidates must be physically located within the United States.

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Responsibilities

Using evidence-based interventions, skillfully manage client crises, providing brief risk assessment, safety planning, and de-escalation with the goal of connecting the client to treatment

Identify roadblocks to clinical care options for our clients using Lyra’s proprietary software and other methods to connect clients to the ideal treatment, based on specific needs and preferences

Independently manage a caseload of complex, multi-need clients

Qualifications

Master’s degree in clinical social work or equivalent; LCSW or equivalent independent clinical licensure is required (e. g. LMFT, LPC, LPCC, etc) or a Bachelor's degree in nursing (RN). We’re unable to provide supervised hours toward licensure. Candidates without a state license to deliver mental health services, independently, will not be considered (with the exception of the RN license)

  • Must have 2+ years psychiatric intake, assessment RB, other related experience
  • Must have 2+ years post license experience (EAP/clinical call center experience preferred)
  • Significant experience managing high-risk clinical situations (e. g., suicidality, mandated reporting)
  • Bilingual, Spanish-speaking candidates strongly preferred (but not required)
  • Must be a full time resident of the United States; work cannot be completed from outside the United States.

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$38.65 - $38.65 an hour

Pay and Benefits

As a full-time Clinical Care Navigator, you will be employed by Lyra Health, Inc. The anticipated base rate for this full-time position is $38.65 per hour. The base rate is determined by role and level, and the base rate will depend on a number of job-related factors, including but not limited to your skills, qualifications, experience and location.

The base rate is only one part of an employee’s total compensation package at Lyra. We also offer generous benefits that include:

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage (including medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life and disability insurances)
  • Lyra for Lyrians; coaching and therapy services
  • Competitive time off with pay policies including vacation, sick days, and company holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401K retirement benefits
  • Monthly tech allowance
  • We like to spread joy throughout the year with well-being perks and activities, surprise swag, regular community celebration…and more!

We can’t wait to meet you.

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Protect Yourself from Recruitment Fraud

Lyra Health does not use text or chat applications to conduct interviews or make job offers. We have a thoughtful and interactive interview process that primarily includes video-based interviews with our hiring teams. Communications will always be conducted from lyrahealth(dot)com or lyraclinical(dot)com domain names. Please disregard any other communications that do not include these domain names but appear to be from Lyra Recruiting.

"We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or any other category protected by law.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed as per the Lyra Health Workforce Privacy Notice.

Through this application, to the extent permitted by law, we will collect personal information from you including, but not limited to, your name, email address, gender identity, employment information, and phone number for the purposes of recruiting and assessing suitability, aptitude, skills, qualifications, and interests for employment with Lyra.

We may also collect information about your race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, which is considered sensitive personal information under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and special category data under the UK and EU GDPR.

Providing this information is optional and completely voluntary, and if you provide it you consent to Lyra processing it for the purposes as described at the point of collection, for example for diversity and inclusion initiatives.

If you are a California resident and would like to limit how we use this information, please use the Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information form. This information will only be retained for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as described above.

Please note that Lyra does not “sell” or “share” personal information as defined by the CPRA.

Outside of the United States, for example in the EU, Switzerland and the UK, you may have the right to request access to, or a copy of, your personal information, including in a portable format; request that we delete your information from our systems; object to or restrict processing of your information; or correct inaccurate or outdated personal information in our systems.

These rights may be subject to legal limitations. To exercise your data privacy rights outside of the United States, please contact globaldpo@lyrahealth.com. For more information about how we use and retain your information, please see our Workforce Privacy Notice."

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical Care NavigationCase ManagementVerbal CommunicationWritten Communication

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Behavioral Health Clinician – Crisis Assessment & Care Navigation at Lyra Health a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Mental Health Therapy counselor listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include remote work flexibility.

Counselor Career Context

Lyra Health holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 77/100, 195 active listings.

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 78% are remote, 30% have no call, 72% require no weekends — this position is remote.

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About Lyra Health

Mental Health Care
Burlingame, California
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life and disability insurances)
Lyra for Lyrians; coaching and therapy services
Competitive time off with pay policies including vacation, sick days, and company holidays
Paid parental leave
401K retirement benefits
Monthly tech allowance
Well-being perks and activities