Analyst - Transition Support Team

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Title: Analyst - Transition Support Team

$62,233.60 - $90,958.40 / Posted Thru: 5-17-26

Location: Hybrid - Remote/On-Office/Community

Purpose: This position provides comprehensive review and specialized analysis involving complex discharge planning for children and youth. This position works with multiple child-serving systems to ensure that youth who are receiving treatment in state hospital, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, or residential treatment programs are transitioned to community settings timely when ready for discharge, with the needed community-based services and supports in place.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide comprehensive review and specialized analysis involving complex discharge planning for assigned children, who are receiving treatment in residential, shelter or state hospital settings.

• Evaluate and assess youth strengths, wishes and needs to determine necessary level and nature of intervention services for complex cases and cases with functional limitations.
• Engage youth and youth supports to assess needs and barriers to appropriate discharge planning that are complex in nature.
• Collect and evaluate information necessary to understand treatment and placement history.
• Review case history including searching in SACWIS and Medicaid utilization data.
• Evaluate efforts made to identify community placement and treatment setting.
• Facilitate and engage discussions with referring individual/s about provided services and recommendations to support transitions to community.
• Coordinate with public and private agencies regarding previous and current discharge plans to ensure treatment and services are received based on referrals, treatment planning and coordination of services.
• Facilitate transition meetings with system providers, behavioral health providers, youth and their families.
• Complete summaries of each transition meeting and distribute them to appropriate team members.
• Identify and assist in securing appropriate referrals to other service providers for behavioral and medical services.
• Meet with systems providers to share information about services and support needed for caregivers, including crisis related services.
• Work with teams to identify potential community settings for youth and make recommendations for needed settings.
• Provide information to system providers, service providers, and caregivers as requested to assist in determining the best placement and treatment options for youth.
• Utilize established protocols to provide analysis and discharge planning.
• Complete required summaries and reports as required in protocol.
• Maintain information/data as required in protocol.

Assess and identify service and support needs for urgent discharges and long-term stays.

• Prioritize urgent discharges and provide immediate assessment and planning of needed services and treatment.
• Critical thinking and decisions are applied to avoid potential medical risks, worsening conditions, and inadequate follow-up care.
• Serve as advocate for the youth to ensure identified treatment and services are received and in compliance within discharge policies and protocols.
• Assess long-term needs for youth and caregivers and establish plans including action steps to ensure continuity of care are provided within policies, statutes and regulations, and are addressed in compliance within expected timeframes.
• Follow-up with youth and caregivers to ensure continued care is provided, successful and are available until transition to appropriate placement center or discharge.
• Research and work with youth, caregivers, and providers for additional treatment and services that will support community reintegration and treatment goals.
• Serve as advocate for the youth to ensure identified treatment and services are received and in compliance within discharge policies and protocols.
• Utilize subject matter experts to determine appropriate and needed specialty behavioral health services and assessments/evaluations.

Make recommendations related to existing discharge policies and procedures, and address challenges and barriers that affect program and services with section and division management.

• Work with staff across bureau and department administrations, as well as subject matter experts to address policy or procedural barriers and identify behavioral health resources for complex discharge needs.
• Complete ongoing assessments of care transition strategies, identifying opportunities for process reengineering or program enhancements.
• Review follow-up on action steps at each meeting, address challenges or barriers to completion of action steps, and work with management and subject matter experts to mitigate and implement changes.
• Participate in quality improvement projects aimed at improving patient outcomes, reducing re-admissions, and enhancing care coordination.
• Organize and participate in meetings with treatment providers to address barriers or challenges to service delivery.
• Draft and update policies, procedures, and best practices related to transitions of care.
• Develop materials, present and train new staff within the section.

General responsibilities as assigned.

• Assigned activities to support the work and operations of the section, division, and bureau.
• Provide presentations on work areas when needed as directed.
• Always represent the best interests of MDHHS and MPHI.

Qualifications/Requirements:

Education: A bachelor's degree in any major; a bachelor's degree in human-behavior health sciences field preferred.

Educational level typically acquired through completion of high school and the equivalent of at least two years of full-time active-duty experience at or above the E-6 level in the uniformed services may be substituted for the education requirement.

Experience: Three years of professional experience, including one year of experience equivalent to the experience (P11) level in state service. Minimum of three years of experience working with children, youth, and families. Minimum of two years of professional experience working with or within child welfare and/or other child serving systems.

Important Skills and Characteristics:

• Knowledge of an array of treatment approaches specific to children and youth and families.
• Familiarity with mental health and social service systems in Michigan.
• Knowledge of the child serving systems in Michigan.
• Knowledge of the inpatient and emergency department pediatric behavioral health systems.
• Knowledge of the methods of collecting, compiling, organizing, and analyzing data.
• Knowledge of federal and state laws related to mental health and public behavioral health.
• Knowledge of factors in the analysis of data to provide the basis for supporting findings, recommendations, and strategies
• Ability to analyze and evaluate data.
• Ability to work with other disciplines as part of a treatment team.
• Ability to prepare charts and other graphs to display analysis of data.
• Ability to organize and write planning reports.
• Ability to interpret pertinent laws and regulations.
• Ability to communicate effectively with others.
• Ability to maintain records and prepare reports and correspondence related to the work.

Work Environment and Physical Requirements: South Grand Tower in Lansing, Hybrid schedule (home, community, and in office), capacity to travel for youth engagement in the community and facilities.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WORK OF OTHERS: No assigned responsibility.

IMPACT ON PROJECTS, SERVICES AND OPERATIONS: This position has a direct impact on the quality of services provided by MPHI to MDHHS.

REQUIRED COMMUNICATION

Contact Person/Group	Frequency	Purpose
Supervisor	Daily	Supervision
Internal Partners	As Needed	Collaboration
External Stakeholders	As Needed	Collaboration

For purposes of employment standards, this classification is "Exempt" from overtime provisions of the fair Labor Standards Act.

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