Intake Clinician PRN 7a-3p

Vbpcweb; Virginia Beach (VA); Presencial; USD 39.000 - 58.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Universal Health Services’ Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center seeks an Intake Clinician-PRN for 7am-3pm shifts. Responsibilities include crisis triage, assessments, and referral coordination within the hospital system. Weekend and holiday coverage is required.

Requires a Master’s in psychology, counseling, or social work, or RN licensure with relevant mental health experience, plus knowledge of psychiatric terminology and assessments.

Formación

• Master's degree in psychology, counseling, social work, or RN licensure with related mental health experience.
• Knowledge of psychiatric diagnoses and treatment terminology.
• Experience with biopsychosocial assessments and crisis intervention.

Responsabilidades

• Provide crisis triage and disposition for callers at intake or ER settings.
• Schedule follow-up assessments within 24 hours for urgent needs.
• Coordinate referrals to outpatient care and community resources.

Conocimientos

Crisis counseling

Mental status evaluation

Communication skills

Educación

Master's degree in psychology

Master's degree in counseling

Master's degree in social work

RN licensure

Herramientas

Computer literacy

Descripción del empleo

Responsibilities

Intake Clinician - PRN 7am-3pm

About Universal Health Services

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) is one of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services. Since our founding in 1979, UHS has grown steadily into a premier Fortune 500® corporation perennially recognized by multiple esteemed national rating entities. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates inpatient acute care facilities, inpatient behavioral health facilities, outpatient and other facilities, nationwide virtual behavioral health services, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services with physical locations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Ireland and United Kingdom. www.uhs.com.

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Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center (VBPC) is a 100-bed freestanding psychiatric hospital located near the beautiful resort area of Virginia Beach, Virginia; a short 10-minute drive to the ocean front. VBPC offers acute psychiatric and substance abuse services for adults 18 years and older. The hospital is accessible 24 hours a day for admissions, and includes mental health assessments and an excellent referral network. Treatment programs and specialty services at VBPC include substance abuse, dual diagnosis and partial hospitalization.

VBPC currently has an Intake Clinician-PRN position available. The candidate must be able to work weekends and holidays. The candidate selected will be responsible for the following: Provides telephonic or face-to-face mental health crisis triage, assessment, intervention and disposition at Assessment and Referral Centers or "on-site" at general hospital emergency room, therapist's or physician's office. Answers the telephone crisis line and obtains all pertinent demographic, clinical, marketing and third party information to determine the appropriateness of face-to-face telephonic assessment and clinical disposition of the caller; seeks supervision when caller requests information/data unfamiliar to counselor. Provides clinically appropriate resolution to those calls evaluated as information only. Provides clinically appropriate telephonic disposition to those clients whose calls are evaluated as routine; referring to outpatient care as appropriate. Schedules face-to-face clinical assessments within twenty-four (24) hours if the call is evaluated as urgent or emergent. Refers calls not appropriate for care within the UHS systems matrix to other clinically appropriate providers and/or community resources.

Qualifications

Requires Master's degree in psychology, counseling, social work, or a degree and licensure as a Registered Nurse and one or more years of direct or related mental health counseling experience; prefer mental health crisis counseling experience. Must possess knowledge of current psychiatric diagnoses and treatment terminology; completed biopsychosocial patient assessments, including conducting formal mental status evaluation and patient medical history; community resources; third party payers, including managed care companies to develop and clinically appropriate crisis intervention and disposition plan; basic typing and computer literacy.

Shift Details

PRN Morning Shift 7am - 3pm. Mandatory weekends required.

EEO Statement

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