INTAKE COUNSELOR (DEGREED)

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Spring Mountain Treatment Center is currently seeking a dynamic professional to join our team as a full time Intake Counselor. The Intake Counselor is responsible for facilitating admissions, clinical intake assessments and utilization review processes to assure continuity for the most appropriate level of care for patients and their benefit/resources utilization.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Facilitate intake, admission, and utilization review process for incoming patients.
• Perform insurance benefit verifications, disseminating the information gathered to patient, their families, and appropriate internal staff.
• Provide accurate and ongoing assessment of patient's status in the admission and utilization process.
• Schedule/complete pre-admission assessments and communicate recommendations to patient or their family.
• Collaborate with other facility medical and psychiatric personnel to ensure appropriate recommendations and admissions.
• Provide accurate and ongoing assessment of patient's status in the admissions, intake, and utilization process.
• Provide education to patient and their family throughout stay.
• Perform ongoing assessments of physical/function, emotional, social, spiritual, and financial needs patients and implements crisis intervention and referral.
• Provide education regarding healthcare and social resource systems to empower patient and their family to access resources independently.
• Performs other duties as assigned/required by this position.

BENEFIT HIGHLIGHTS:

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!
• More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website: benefits.uhsguest.com

ABOUT SPRING MOUNTAIN TREATMENT CENTER:

Spring Mountain Behavioral Services has provided mental health services to the Las Vegas community since 2001, treating children, teens, adults and senior adults with behavioral health or addiction issues. We offer a supportive and healthy environment with 24-hour care that allows people of all ages to make positive changes in their lives. Our primary location, Spring Mountain Treatment Center, focuses on the stabilization of acute symptoms for patients age 5 to 65, along with select outpatient care programs for teens. Our secondary location, Spring Mountain Sahara, houses our Adult Outpatient and Senior Adult Inpatient programs.

Spring Mountain Treatment Center is a 110-bed mental health facility that provides acute crisis stabilization services for adults, teens, and children in a secure inpatient setting. Our individualized treatment includes a structured, therapeutic environment, intensive physician involvement and oversight, and daily group and educational programs. We provide a caring and healthy environment that gives individuals a chance to make positive changes.

ABOUT UHS:

One of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance, growing since its inception into a Fortune 500 corporation. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has 99,000 employees. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates 28 acute care hospitals, 331 behavioral health facilities, 60 outpatient and other facilities in 39 U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Master's degree required
• Must have three (3) years' experience working in a clinical setting, providing direct patient care and/or previous admission experience.
• Mental Health License preferred; including appropriate on-the-job training and experience to meet the duties and responsibilities of this position.
• Understand and honor the established hospital rules, regulations and Policy and Procedures.
• Good communication skills, i.e., reading, writing, and speaking
• Ability to follow both written and verbal instructions
• Good leadership qualities which includes self-control, patience, and empathy
• Obtain BLS Basic Life Support certification
• New hires are required to attend 1 full week of New Employee Orientation on day shift, normally 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Monday through Friday
• Must successfully pass background check (includes criminal history, Child Abuse and Neglect Registry, and ABI/FBI fingerprint check)

EEO STATEMENT:

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

NOTICE:

At UHS and all our subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skill set and experience with the best possible career path at UHS and our subsidiaries. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (e.g., Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. Our recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc.

If you suspect a fraudulent job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, we encourage you to report such concerns to appropriate law enforcement. We encourage you to refer to legitimate UHS and UHS subsidiary career websites to verify job opportunities and not rely on unsolicited calls from recruiters.

Minimum $26/hr