ADMISSIONS SPECIALIST    WEEKEND OVERNIGHT SHIFT

Park Royal Hospital is a free-standing psychiatric hospital dedicated to providing compassionate, life-changing care for adolescents, adults, and seniors facing mental health or substance use challenges. Working at Park Royal means being part of a multidisciplinary team that blends clinical expertise with genuine empathy, creating a therapeutic environment where every individual is treated with dignity and respect. Staff members take pride in delivering personalized inpatient and outpatient services that reflect each patient’s unique history, strengths, and needs—whether they are navigating depression, anxiety, PTSD, mood disorders, memory concerns, or co-occurring substance abuse. It’s a setting where professionals can make a meaningful impact each day while supporting holistic healing and long-term recovery.

We are seeking to add an overnight weekend Admissions Specialist to our team who will be a clinical professional responsible for inquiries, assessments and admissions to the facility. 

Pay range $ 20-22 per hour

​ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

• ​Facilitate admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients.  
• ​Respond to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes. 
• ​Schedule/complete pre-admission assessments and communicate recommendations to patients or their families. 
• ​Collaborate with other facility medical and psychiatric personnel to ensure appropriate recommendations and admissions.  
• ​Coordinate admission and transfer between levels of care within the facility. 

• ​Communicate projected admissions to designated internal representative in a timely manner. 
• ​Perform insurance benefit verifications, disseminating the information gathered to patient, their families and other appropriate facility staff.  
• ​Ensure all medical admission documentation is gathered from external sources prior to patient admission and secure initial pre-authorization for treatment and admission.  
• ​Assist individual therapists with concurrent reviews with insurance companies to secure continued treatment.  
• ​Coordinate and facilitate peer to peer reviews when needed and collaborate the results of reviews with multi-disciplinary treatment team. 

• ​Provide accurate and ongoing assessment of patient status in the admissions process.  
• ​Communicate treatment recommendations to and coordinate with other treatment teams.  

​OTHER FUNCTIONS:  

• ​Perform other functions and tasks as assigned. 

​EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS: 

• ​Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Science, Social Work, Vocational Rehabilitation, Psychology, Sociology, Public Administration, or a related field;
• ​Minimum one year experience - or internship- working with individuals in a clinical or observational capacity, preferably within the area of specialty for the hiring facility. 

​LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:  

• ​CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility). 
• ​First aid may be required based on state or facility. 

​While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances  
(e.g. emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.

We are committed to providing equal  employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws.

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