DISCHARGE PLANNER

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Spring Mountain Treatment Center is currently seeking a dynamic professional to join our team as a PRN Discharge Planner.

The Discharge Planner will serve as a member of a multi-disciplinary team supporting the hospital's treatment program, philosophy, and assure the deliverance of quality treatment to patients and their family members. Provides discharge planning, case management, and psycho-educational groups to age specific populations. Stays informed of current community resources for discharge planning and conducts discharge planning groups as indicated.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinates care of assigned patients throughout their stay to plan and evaluate individualized safe and timely patient discharge needs.
• Works collaboratively with the physicians, staff nurses, and other Clinical Services Team Members to influence timely and smooth discharge with appropriate care and positive outcomes; presents alternative options and services as needed.
• Develops and coordinates an individualized discharge plan for the patient by utilizing team and chart information to determine the patient's aftercare needs.
• Demonstrates current knowledge about full range of discharge options/community resources and utilizes them in the patient's discharge plan.
• Updating each patient/family contact to address discharge planning progress, a social service progress note will be entered outlining services provided when needed.
• Provides psycho educational or discharge groups as assigned. Following each group, documentation is made in the patient's chart or on a group note.
• May attend on/off campus meetings related to patient, social work, and community issues.
• Attends educational in-services to continually update knowledge base related to behavioral health and social work issues.
• Understands and complies with the intent of the Performance Improvement Purpose and Procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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:

• Bachelor's Degree required, Master's preferred.
• One to three years of relevant work experience in the behavioral health field required.
• Ability to effectively work with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Knowledge of treamtment plans.
• Experience in patient/family conflict resolution.
• Knowledge of Microsoft systems.
• 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.