Job Location Newton, KS 67114 Position Type Full Time Education Level Graduate Degree Job Shift Swing Job Category Nonprofit - Social Services
Full-Time | School Partnerships | Multiple Locations
Join a mission-driven team that ensures students and families receive timely, compassionate, and clinically sound support. Our School-Based Intake Clinicians are often the first point of contact for youth and families entering services — and your expertise helps set the tone for their entire treatment experience.
This floating role provides coverage across multiple school locations, offering variety in your day and the opportunity to build relationships throughout the district.
As a School-Based Intake Clinician, you’ll complete diagnostic assessments, respond to urgent mental health concerns, and ensure students are quickly connected to the right level of care. You’ll collaborate with school staff, Prairie View providers, and community partners to create a smooth, student-centered admissions process.
Your work helps strengthen school–clinic partnerships and ensures families feel supported, informed, and understood from the very first interaction.
Conduct comprehensive clinical and diagnostic assessments.
Provide crisis intervention and safety planning using evidence-informed practices.
Observe and evaluate student behavior, emotional functioning, and presenting concerns.
Collaborate with school staff, caregivers, and treatment teams to determine next steps.
Ensure recommendations align with Prairie View standards and managed care guidelines.
Assess developmental, emotional, and behavioral needs specific to school-aged children and adolescents.
Communicate effectively with youth, caregivers, and education professionals.
Maintain appropriate boundaries and cultural sensitivity.
Maintain accurate and timely documentation.
Support a seamless, customer-focused admissions experience.
Communicate effectively with internal teams and external agencies.
Contribute insight to departmental planning and improvement efforts.
Participate in quality improvement initiatives and department meetings.
Identify opportunities for more efficient processes and better student/family outcomes.
Help maintain a positive, collaborative work environment.
Engage in ongoing training, supervision, and continuing education.
Stay current on best practices in youth mental health, crisis care, and school-based services.
You’ll be successful in this role if you’re clinically strong, calm under pressure, and energized by partnership work. Requirements include:
Education: Master’s degree with clinical emphasis; QMHP required
Experience: 3+ years in the mental health field preferred.
Strong clinical and diagnostic skills.
Skilled in crisis intervention and safety assessment.
Excellent communication — written, verbal, and interpersonal.
Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams and community agencies.
Understanding of customer service principles and managed care processes.
Strong problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
Ability to contribute to efficient departmental budgeting.
Schedule flexibility to support school and agency needs.
Proficient with basic computer and documentation skills.
Able to pass KBI and Adult/Child Central Registry screenings.
A benefits package designed to support your health, financial wellness, and work–life balance:
Affordable Blue Cross Blue Shield medical plans
Delta Dental & Vision Direct vision coverage
401(k) with employer match (after 1 year)
Generous PTO
Company-paid life and disability insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
FSA and HSA options (with employer HSA contribution)
You’ll be part of a compassionate, values-driven team committed to providing exceptional behavioral health services with dignity, integrity, and respect. We support your growth through supervision, ongoing training, and opportunities to shape the future of our school-based programs.
Prairie View is a regional behavioral,addiction and mental health system offering a continuum of services for children, adolescents, adults and older adults. As the state's longest-serving, non-profit behavioral health care center - and the only faith-based community mental health center - our professional staff takes pride in bringing about restoration through services that combine compassion with dignity and respect.
Prairie View has five outpatient locations in Newton, east and west Wichita, Hillsboro and McPherson, and a network of behavioral health providers throughout Kansas and the Midwest. Prairie View is the community mental health center for Harvey, Marion and McPherson counties.
