11p-7a Intake Clinician - PRN(Remote)

UHS • Virginia Beach, VA

12h • Remote

About The Position

Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) is a Fortune 300 corporation and one of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, with annual revenues of $15.8 billion in 2024 and approximately 99,000 employees. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS 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 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, offering acute psychiatric and substance abuse services for adults 18 years and older. VBPC provides 24-hour admissions, mental health assessments, and an excellent referral network, with treatment programs including substance abuse, dual diagnosis, and partial hospitalization. VBPC is currently seeking a PRN Assessment and Referral Clinician.

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: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees