Behavioral Health Facilitator, Child Psychiatry

Cincinnati Children's•College Hill, TX

2d•$25 - $31•Onsite

About The Position

The Behavioral Health Facilitator is a behavioral and milieu leader on a child inpatient psychiatry unit. The role supports implementation of therapeutic milieu and group programming, provides coaching and oversight to staff, and helps coordinate patient care, shift assignments, daily tasks, and unit resources. The facilitator monitors patient locations and risk levels, alerts nurses to mental-status changes, and helps maintain a safe and prepared environment while following organizational and divisional policies. The position supports patients and families through family-meeting participation, parent coaching, customer-service support, and communication with the interdisciplinary treatment team. It adapts care and programming to patients’ developmental needs, diagnoses, behaviors, and cultural backgrounds, and oversees positive reinforcement and token-economy systems. The facilitator develops and leads groups, coaches staff in group leadership and therapeutic interventions, contributes to quality-improvement work, and may respond to referrals, assess and round on patients, respond to crises, and support bedside staff. In collaboration with the Code Violet Response Team and Behavior Specialist, the role supports crisis response, seclusion or restraint when necessary, behavior-plan implementation, and related documentation. The facilitator also participates in team staffing and clinical case reviews and helps exchange appropriate care information during patient admissions, referrals, transfers, and discharges.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
At least 2 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Responsibilities

Lead implementation of the therapeutic milieu and group programming across waking hours, including developing programming and coaching staff who facilitate groups.
Oversee shift-to-shift implementation of individualized programming and coach staff during crisis events.
Coordinate patient care across settings, adapt the milieu to disruptive behaviors, and design and evaluate creative therapeutic programming based on evidence-based interventions.
Educate and precept new staff; lead shift assignments and assign daily tasks, including environmental rounds and patient-observation checks.
Maintain awareness of patient locations and risk levels through rounds, and alert nurses to changes in mental status.
Ensure timely staff documentation, participate in treatment rounds, and facilitate staff participation consistent with patient assignments.
Ensure group materials and resources are prepared and available, manage resources, and support unit functions.
Encourage patients to plan for and participate in family meetings; address customer-service concerns and questions and attempt to meet customer needs before referring them to others.
Seek parent interactions during visiting and coach staff on patient engagement, positive reinforcement, de-escalation, and crisis-management skills.
Provide parent coaching about behavioral interventions and safety plans, and support families and coworkers.
Integrate age-specific and culturally inclusive concepts into patient care, considering chronological age and developmental functioning.
Communicate regularly with the interdisciplinary treatment team about treatment plans, family communication, treatment expectations, and progress.
Oversee staff implementation of positive reinforcement and token-economy systems.
Develop group topics, tailor groups to developmental levels and psychiatric diagnoses, adapt groups to behavioral issues, and adjust groups when the process is not productive.
Participate in quality-improvement initiatives, support assignments involving more complex patients, and provide constructive feedback and coaching to coworkers and new staff.
Coach staff on the therapeutic use of one-to-one interventions and encourage completion of ICMPs.
Attend rounds and provide leadership in milieu management, prioritization, and support of clinical outcomes and compliance.
Respond as needed to referrals, complete patient assessments, round on patients, respond to crises, and support bedside staff.
Work with the Code Violet Response Team to respond to and manage unit crises.
Participate in and support episodes of seclusion or restraint when necessary.
Supervise and coach staff in implementing treatment plans, behavior plans, and interventions, in collaboration with the Behavior Specialist.
Ensure staff complete documentation related to individualized behavioral programming and plans.
Communicate parental attitudes and behaviors that may affect treatment, verbally and in writing.
Facilitate problem-solving about behavioral and medical treatment options; participate in team staffing and clinical case reviews.
Support the exchange of appropriate patient-care and clinical information when patients are admitted, referred, transferred, or discharged.
Provide support and input to the inpatient unit regarding parental issues or child characteristics that influence treatment.