Intake Clinician PRN 7a-3p
About The Position
Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center (VBPC), a 100-bed freestanding psychiatric hospital in Virginia Beach, Virginia, provides acute psychiatric and substance abuse services for adults age 18 and older. Its treatment programs include substance abuse, dual diagnosis, and partial hospitalization. VBPC is accessible 24 hours a day for admissions and provides mental health assessments and referral services. The Intake Clinician provides telephonic or face-to-face mental health crisis triage, assessment, intervention, and disposition at Assessment and Referral Centers or at general hospital emergency rooms, therapists’ offices, or physicians’ offices. This is a PRN morning-shift position, 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with mandatory weekend and holiday availability.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in psychology, counseling, or 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.
- Experience completing biopsychosocial patient assessments, including formal mental status evaluations and patient medical histories.
- Knowledge of community resources and third-party payers, including managed care companies.
- Ability to develop clinically appropriate crisis intervention and disposition plans.
- Basic typing and computer literacy.
- Ability to work mandatory weekends and holidays.
Nice To Haves
- Mental health crisis counseling experience.
Responsibilities
- Provide 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 rooms, therapists’ offices, or physicians’ offices.
- Answer the telephone crisis line and obtain relevant demographic, clinical, marketing, and third-party information to determine the appropriateness of a face-to-face or telephonic assessment and clinical disposition.
- Seek supervision when a caller requests information or data unfamiliar to the clinician.
- Provide clinically appropriate resolutions to calls evaluated as information-only.
- Provide clinically appropriate telephonic dispositions to clients whose calls are evaluated as routine, referring them to outpatient care as appropriate.
- Schedule face-to-face clinical assessments within 24 hours when a call is evaluated as urgent or emergent.
- Refer calls that are not appropriate for care within the UHS systems matrix to other clinically appropriate providers or community resources.
