Evening- Intake Clinician RN - PRN(Remote)

UHS • Virginia Beach, VA

7h • Remote

About The Position

Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) is one of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, with annual revenues of $15.8 billion in 2024. It is a Fortune 300 corporation, 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 99,000 employees and operates acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities, ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network, and various related services across the U.S., Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center (VBPC) is a 100-bed freestanding psychiatric hospital located near Virginia Beach, Virginia. VBPC offers acute psychiatric and substance abuse services for adults 18 years and older, accessible 24 hours a day for admissions, including 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 a PRN Assessment and Referral Clinician position available. The candidate must be able to work evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Requirements

• Master's degree in psychology, counseling, social work, or a degree and licensure as a Registered Nurse
• One or more years of direct or related mental health counseling experience
• Knowledge of current psychiatric diagnoses and treatment terminology
• Completed biopsychosocial patient assessments, including conducting formal mental status evaluation and patient medical history
• Knowledge of community resources
• Knowledge of third party payers, including managed care companies to develop and clinically appropriate crisis intervention and disposition plan
• Basic typing and computer literacy

Nice To Haves

• Mental health crisis counseling experience

Responsibilities

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees