PRN Intake Counselor – Behavioral Health

SummitRidge Hospital; Lawrenceville (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Universal Health Services is seeking an experienced Intake Counselor for SummitRidge Hospital in Lawrenceville, GA. This PRN role provides crisis intervention, triage, and clinical assessments, delivering high-quality support to patients, families, and referral sources.

The successful candidate will coordinate admission precertification, perform on-site assessments as needed, and collaborate with physicians, EDs and internal teams to ensure excellent patient services.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in psychology or social work; licensed or license-eligible.
• Five years post-graduate experience in a psychiatric setting preferred.
• Must have five years related experience in a psychiatric setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide crisis intervention and telephonic triage to callers.
• Conduct clinical assessments and recommend next steps for care.
• Obtain admission precertification and coordinate referrals as needed.
• Perform on-site assessments to support patient intake.
• Collaborate with internal departments, physicians, and ED staff to ensure quality service.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Telephonic triage

Clinical assessments

Education

Master's degree in psychology or social work

Job description

Responsibilities

SummitRidge Hospital, a place for healing and hope provides quality behavioral health and addiction treatment services, mental health and substance abuse treatment located in Lawrenceville, Georgia, approximately 30 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. Our inpatient, partial hospitalization and outpatient programs have helped adolescents, adults, older adults and their families.

Due to continued growth, we are seeking an experienced Intake Counselor with recent behavioral health experience to provide PRN/as-needed coverage. The Intake Counselor will ensure all intake calls are answered promptly and courteously while delivering high-quality clinical support to patients, families, and referral sources.

Key responsibilities include providing crisis intervention, telephonic triage, and clinical assessments; offering callers and families community resources and information; obtaining admission precertification; and conducting on-site assessments as needed. The ideal candidate will build and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external customers, including other departments, physicians, and Emergency Departments, while working collaboratively as a team player to support exceptional customer service for patients, families, and fellow associates.

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $13.4 billion in 2022. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America's Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 94,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. www.uhs.com

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's in psychology or social work or related field. Licensed or License eligible.
• Five (5) years post graduate experience in a psychiatric setting preferred

Must have a minimum of five (5) years related experience in a psychiatric setting.

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.