Introduction

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a(an) Clinician PARS PRN with Portsmouth Regional Hospital you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!

Benefits

Portsmouth Regional Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
  
• Fertility and family building benefits through Progyny
  
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• Family support, including adoption assistance, child and elder care resources and consumer discounts
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  
• Retirement readiness and rollover services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Would you like to unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to the growth and development of our colleagues? Join the Portsmouth Regional Hospital family! We will give you the tools and resources you need to succeed in our organization. We are looking for an enthusiastic Clinician PARS PRN to help us reach our goals. Unlock your potential!

Job Summary and Qualifications

SPECIFIC ELEMENTS & ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Develops a positive engagement with the caller/patient, which facilitates an accurate interview.

• Schedules patients for evaluations, utilizing program-appropriate flow sheets.

• Triage phone calls: concise and complete assessments, appropriate follow-up, complete documentation on phone sheets.

• Completes assessment in well-written format and in a timely manner.

• Performs and documents mental status exam.

• Clinical impressions are supported by data.

• Demonstrates knowledge of principles of growth and development over the life span and possesses the ability to collect appropriate data, and complete assessments based on the age-specific needs.

• Provides information to patients and families regarding specific treatment programs.

• Performs functions of an Involuntary Emergency Admission as needed, including acting as petitioner when necessary, and attending/following through with the court system for the hearing.

• If appropriate consent is obtained, timely communication with outpatient therapist regarding admission/evaluation.

• Works actively with PRH in a liaison capacity around patient evaluations and transfer issues, and provides full psychiatric assessments when requested by the psychiatrist.

• Performs assessment, completes paperwork, in a reasonable amount of time.

• Consistently consults with a psychiatrist after assessments.

• Completes medical clearance section correctly.

• Accurately obtains all required consents at time of admission.

• Consistently adheres to patient confidentiality rights.

• Is knowledgeable of, and practices, all current seclusion and restraint techniques.

• Performs assessments in a safe environment.

• Obtains informed consent from patients.

• Educates patient regarding Patients Rights. Obtains signature that indicates understanding. Gives copy to patient.

• Files documents appropriately.

• Coordinates transfer of patients from other facilities for admission to the Behavioral Health Unit.

• Provides clinical assessments in the Emergency Department as requested.

• Along with the Business Office, provides financial assessments for all potential admissions, in order to provide information about both clinical and financial aspects of hospitalization. Works with Utilization to obtain insurance verifications.

• Responds to Code Grays as necessary.

• Makes report of homicidal patients utilizing Duty to Warn Policy when indicated.

• Files abuse reports according to policy as necessary.

• Completes daily physician assignment.

• Responds to PRH for clinical debriefings and grief work.

• Maintains accurate count of available beds through monitoring daily census. Coordinates waiting list if necessary.

• Assists on patient unit as requested by PARS Coordinator, Nursing Supervisor, Program Director.

• Adheres to unit/hospital standards of documentation.

• Completes annual competencies within appropriate time frame.

Experience:

• 
  1-3 years of experience is Required
• LCMHC, MSW, LADAC, CADAC, or PsyD is required

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date

This role requires you to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 based on local, state and /or federal law or regulations (unless a medical or religious exemption is approved).

Portsmouth Regional Hospital is a 234-bed acute care hospital located in Portsmouth, NH. We serve the Seacoast region's residents in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. The hospital is one of the area's largest employers. We are the only ACS Verified Level II Trauma Center on New Hampshire's Seacoast. Portsmouth Regional Hospital is the Seacoast's only comprehensive heart and vascular program. Also, the only Comprehensive Stroke Center on the Seacoast. We provide 7 comprehensive neurosurgical and stroke clot retrieval and aneurysm coiling programs for both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. Portsmouth Regional Hospital, is a member of HCA Healthcare's Capital Division, one of the nation's leading providers of health care services.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Clinician PARS PRN opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!

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