[Hiring] Intake Clinician @UHS

Role Description

VBPC currently has a PRN Assessment and Referral Clinician position available. The candidate must be able to work evenings, weekends and holidays. The candidate selected will be responsible for the following:

• 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.

Qualifications

• Requires Master's degree in psychology, counseling, social work, or a degree and licensure as a Registered Nurse 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.
• Knowledge of community resources and third party payers, including managed care companies to develop a clinically appropriate crisis intervention and disposition plan.
• Basic typing and computer literacy.

Requirements

• Shift Details: PRN. Mandatory weekends required.