RN Clinician 11p-7am Sat-Mon

Intake Clinician-RN

Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) is one of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has grown steadily since its founding in 1979 into a premier Fortune 500 corporation. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates inpatient acute care facilities, inpatient behavioral health facilities, outpatient and other facilities, nationwide virtual behavioral health services, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services with physical locations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Ireland and United Kingdom.

Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center (VBPC) is a 100-bed freestanding psychiatric hospital located near the beautiful resort area of Virginia Beach, Virginia. VBPC offers acute psychiatric and substance abuse services for adults 18 years and older. The hospital is accessible 24 hours a day for admissions, and includes 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 an Intake Clinician-RN position available. The candidate must be able to work evenings, weekends and holidays.

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.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• Required licensure as a Registered Nurse.
• Preferred master's degree in psychology, counseling, social work, or a degree and one or more years of direct or related mental health counseling experience; prefer mental health crisis counseling experience.
• Must possess knowledge of current psychiatric diagnoses and treatment terminology; completed biopsychosocial patient assessments, including conducting formal mental status evaluation and patient medical history; community resources; third party payers, including managed care companies to develop and clinically appropriate crisis intervention and disposition plan; basic typing and computer literacy.

Shift Details: Mandatory weekends and holiday required.

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