Weekend Intake RN — Admissions & Education Perks

The Pavilion at Williamsburg Place, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 62,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continued education

Tuition assistance

Medical, dental & vision after 30 days

Flex pay

PTO package

Job summary

The Pavilion at Williamsburg Place in Williamsburg, Virginia, is seeking an Intake RN for weekend days (7am-7pm). The role focuses on admissions screening, financial counseling, and insurance verification, coordinating with the care team, and ensuring timely admissions.

This full-time weekend position offers base pay of 45–50 USD per hour, comprehensive benefits after 30 days, tuition assistance of up to 3000 USD per year, and opportunities for continuing education and PTO.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing required.
• BSN preferred.
• 1+ years' experience in mental health or substance use disorder admissions preferred.
• Experience in clinical interviewing, patient assessment, referral, treatment planning.
• Experience in the managed care pre-certification process, level of care assessments and utilization.
• Outstanding interpersonal and interviewing and assessment skills.
• Skill in telephone etiquette and paging procedures.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients.
• Provides initial evaluation and initiate the integrated assessment, documenting patient symptoms, functioning and needs.
• Collaborates with other facility medical and psychiatric staff to ensure appropriate recommendations and admissions.
• Communicates projected admissions to designated internal representative in a timely manner.
• Provides additional coverage for the Call Center Team – e.g. answers phones, processes admission requests, completes call center duties reviewing and accepting patients, verifies insurance, and assists with insurance pre-certifications during times of high volume.
• Ensures all medical admission documentation is gathered from external sources prior to patient admission and secures initial pre-authorization for treatment and admission.
• Reviews patient charts to determine medical necessity and staffs each referral and assessment with appropriate physician to obtain orders, recommendations, and DSM-V diagnosis, when appropriate.
• Communicates treatment recommendations to and coordinate with other treatment teams.
• May administer patients' medications and follows all physician's orders in consultation with psychiatrist and in accordance with established hospital and licensing agency protocols.
• Educates patients on side effects, and through discussions determines the effectiveness of education; questions compliance and adjusts medications under psychiatrists' supervision as needed; monitors lab results to validate medication compliance.
• May maintain accountability of administration, recording, control and security of medications, including narcotics.
• Assures completion of Adverse Drug Reaction forms as necessary.
• Maintains knowledge of the most common medications used for psychiatric patients.
• Advocates for the lowest level of care consistent with the patient's needs.
• Coordinates admission and transfer between levels of care within the facility.
• Assures thorough, accurate documentation is completed for all patients on each shift and facilitates the response to requests for services, including the initial response, the assessment, and referral process, the designation of appropriate level of care, initiation/admission into services, and appropriate follow up activity.
• Responds to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes.
• Performs insurance benefit verifications, disseminating the information gathered to patient, their families and other appropriate facility staff.
• Provides accurate and ongoing assessment of patient status in the admissions process.
• Reviews client charts to determine medical necessity and staffs each referral and assessment with appropriate physician to obtain orders, recommendations, and DSM-V diagnosis, when appropriate.
• Other duties as assigned, including assisting on patient unit.
• May administer clients' medications. Follows all physician's orders in consultation with psychiatrist and in accordance with established hospital and licensing agency protocols.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Telephone etiquette

Assessment skills

Interviewing skills

Communication

Education

RN nursing degree

BSN preferred

Job description

The Pavilion at Williamsburg Place in Williamsburg, Virginia, is seeking an Intake RN for weekend days (7am-7pm). The role focuses on admissions screening, financial counseling, and insurance verification, coordinating with the care team, and ensuring timely admissions.

This full-time weekend position offers base pay of 45–50 USD per hour, comprehensive benefits after 30 days, tuition assistance of up to 3000 USD per year, and opportunities for continuing education and PTO.