DISCHARGE PLANNER

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Spring Mountain Sahara is currently seeking a dynamic professional to join our team as a Discharge Planner. The Discharge Planner serves as a member of multi-disciplinary team supporting the hospital's treatment program, and 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/new community resources for discharge planning. Conduct discharge planning groups as indicated.

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.

This opportunity offers the following:

• Competitive Compensation
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k plan with company match and employee discounted stock plan
• Growth and Development Opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries
• Education Assistance
• Challenging and rewarding work environment

ABOUT UHS:

One of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, our annual revenues were $11.4 billion in 2019. In 2020, UHS was again recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune; in 2019, ranked #293 on the Fortune 500; and in 2017, listed #275 in Forbes inaugural ranking of America's Top 500 Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has more than 90,000 employees and through its subsidiaries operates 26 acute care hospitals, 328 behavioral health facilities, 42 outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located in 37 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Develops implements and documents a discharge plan established with the patient per CMS & Joint Commission standards and with attention focused on progressing toward discharge.
Demonstrates current knowledge about full range of discharge options/community resources and utilizes them in the patient's discharge plan.
Serves as resource to patients and makes referrals to appropriate resources.
Following each patient/family contact to address discharge planning progress, a social service progress note will be entered outlining services provided.
Provides psycho educational or discharge groups as assigned. Following each group, documentation is made in the patients chart or on a group note.
May attend on/off campus meetings related to patient, social work and community issues.
Attend Treatment Team Meetings as determined by the Director of Clinical Services.
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.
Supports internal and external customer service standards

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 skillset and experience with the best possible career path at UHS and our subsidiaries. We take pride in creating a highly efficient and best in class candidate experience. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. The recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. If you are suspicious of a job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, let us know by contacting us at: https://uhs.alertline.com or 1-800-852-3449.