Mental Health Intake Specialist - RN

As a Mental Health Intake Specialist – RN, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn – whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You’ll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

Provide a patient onboarding experience for patients admitting to the in‑patient units and support units upon discharge. Assess, plan, implement, evaluate and document all aspects of patient care, working closely with all health care providers to facilitate efficient, effective, quality health care. Demonstrate knowledge of developmental principles across the life span, assess data reflective of patient status, interpret information to identify each patient’s requirements, and provide appropriate care to the relevant patient group(s).

Implement and comply with all policies, procedures and standards of the unit, department and institution.

• Coordinate care with physicians.
• Actively collaborate with other units and program staff, physicians, and members of other departments to facilitate provision of optimal patient care.
• Provide patient education while administering medication.
• Practice safe medication administration consistent with scanning of patient and medications.
• Scan all medications and patients using eMar.
• Follow facility established guidelines for reconciliation of medications on admission, during transfer and at discharge.
• Assign and conduct appropriate individual and group interventions within the milieu for behavioral and safe management of patients.
• Maintain appropriate boundaries and demonstrate least restrictive interventions appropriately.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment, patient safety and programs.
• Assess patient’s response to treatment and safety interventions and accurately document interventions and patient’s response.
• Assist patients and families to understand the diagnosis, prescribed treatment and safe management of symptoms related to specific mental disorders through health teaching.
• Document against the interventions within the Recovery Plan.
• Utilize teaching skills related to psycho‑educational and medical interventions and patient safety needs with the patients and families.
• Assume responsibility for renewing license.
• Assume responsibility for completing all mandatory educational, health screening, CPR, and CPI requirements within designated time frame and for providing written verification for filing.
• Transcribe orders accurately and scan orders to pharmacy in a timely fashion.
• Provide the new patient with an in‑depth onboarding experience.
• Provide support to the unit staff with discharging patients.

• Registered Nurse (RN) with an Associate Degree.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support certification obtained within 30 days of employment start date.
• Non‑violent Crisis Intervention certification obtained within 30 days of employment start date.
• Three (3) years of experience in a mental health setting.
• No travel required.

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services.
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
• Paid time off, paid family leave, long‑ and short‑term disability coverage and leaves of absence.
• 401(k) plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service);
  Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling.
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts.
• Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Live Oak Mental Health and Wellness Center is a part of Trident Health. We provide inpatient stabilization treatment to patients with acute psychiatric symptoms that cannot be addressed on an outpatient basis.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.