Behavioral Health Clin Flexi

Chesapeake Regional Medical Center • Chesapeake, VA

335d

About The Position

The Behavioral Health Clinician I provides the clinical intervention, discharge coordination, and milieu support on the psychiatric units. The Behavioral Health Clinician is responsible for providing high quality patient care, displaying effective skills in assessment, treatment planning, and counseling models and modalities to include individual, group, and family counseling. Additionally, he or she is expected to assist with care coordination and discharge planning to access patients needed medical, psychiatric, social, educational, vocational, and other supports essential to meet their basic needs. The Behavioral Health Clinician also performs direct and indirect patient care activities for mental health patients, including duties in support of the delivery of psychiatric nursing care and assists in the milieu management to ensure a safe, therapeutic environment for patients and staff.

Requirements

• Minimum: a degree in human services or related field from an accredited college or 4+ years of equivalent work experience.
• Preferred: Equivalent to a master's degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or a related field from an accredited college or university.
• Experience: 2+ years' work experience in behavioral health assessment and treatment.
• QMHP eligible, as defined by the Virginia Board of Counseling.
• BLS Certification required.

Nice To Haves

• Licensed-eligible for Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed-eligible as a Professional Counselor (LPC).

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive assessments to identify cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning and risk assessment, using a biopsychosocial approach.
• Identify disposition decisions, determining the appropriate level of care for each patient.
• Attend treatment team huddles and coordinate care in close collaboration with other treatment team members.
• Complete clinical formulations to include diagnosis and treatment approach, taking the lead on and providing input to a patient's Individual Service Plan (ISP).
• Completes progress notes on interventions conducted and patient response.
• Stimulate patients' interest and cooperation in various individual and group activities and therapeutic interventions.
• Engaging patients at their level of functioning with recreation, movement, art, music, psychoeducation, and/or other empirically supported therapeutic intervention.
• Utilize effective strategies for the management of emotional and behavioral crises.
• Provides appropriate crisis intervention as necessary by anticipating and responding quickly to escalating behaviors.
• Uses appropriate counseling skills to include active listening skills, appropriate voice tone, and volume of voice.
• Positively utilize feedback regarding performance and use supervision to improve performance.
• Attend required hospital-wide orientations, meetings, and in-services.
• Take responsibility for ongoing professional growth and development; maintain current facility competencies and annual competencies.
• Bring to Behavioral Health manager and Charge Nurse's attention significant issues related to the special issues presented by mental health care.
• Complete petitions for emergency custody order or temporary detention orders, if deemed necessary.
• Link behavioral health patients to services and supports specified in their Individualized Service Plan.
• Assist the individual directly for the purpose of locating, developing, or obtaining needed services and resources.
• Coordinate services and service planning with families, other agencies, and providers involved with the individual.
• Enhance community integration by contacting other entities to arrange community access and involvement.
• Make collateral contacts with the individuals' significant others to promote implementation of the service plan and community adjustment.
• Engage in timely, efficient discharge planning.
• Work in close conjunction with patient, family, nursing staff, attending physician, and referral sources.
• Demonstrate knowledge of referral/placement process and available community resources.
• Communicate effectively with families and agencies conveying a positive, professional image.
• Function cooperatively as a member of the larger treatment team.
• Oversee patient engagement and morale, maintaining a warm and positive environment.
• Develop a therapeutic relationship with psychiatric patients.
• Directly address the behavioral support needs for patients and provide a variety of support services.
• Observe patient progress during treatment, monitor leisure time, recreational, and social activities of choice within the unit for each patient.
• Collaborate with the clinical team to ensure effective communication and progress monitoring.
• Lead, train, and support the psychiatric units' team members in Handle with Care/De-escalation techniques.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree