Behavioral Health Specialist, Liberty ED (Full-Time, Days)

Cincinnati Children's•Liberty, LA

2d•$21 - $26•Onsite

About The Position

The Behavioral Health Specialist delivers team-based care to patients in the Liberty Emergency Department. The role supports patients’ safety, stabilization, and treatment through environmental management, crisis prevention and response, implementation of individualized care plans, therapeutic activities, relationship-based communication, and documentation. Assignments may involve multiple patients, a specific 1:1 patient assignment, or responsibility for a particular location or environment, depending on the therapeutic schedule and patient needs. The specialist works collaboratively with patients, families, and the multidisciplinary team, using trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate approaches. Responsibilities include facilitating psychoeducation and recreational groups, implementing behavioral and educational protocols, assisting with delegated patient care, monitoring patient safety and treatment progress, and escalating changes in patient condition or other concerns to appropriate staff.

Requirements

High school diploma and 2 or more years of experience, or a bachelor's degree in a related field.
May require a clinical license, certification, or training.

Responsibilities

Deliver patient care by following established processes and procedures, receiving coaching and feedback, and contributing to a collaborative learning environment.
Coordinate the assigned area using safety, structure, planning, participation, and support; perform environmental checks and maintain a safe, organized work area.
Prevent and respond to escalations and crises using Therapeutic Crisis Intervention concepts, including physical restraint when needed to ensure safety; lead behavioral crisis responses and use interventions aligned with the stress model of crisis and patient treatment plans.
Follow policies, procedures, protocols, patient observation levels, and treatment schedules; prepare materials needed for the patient population.
Support patient stabilization from acute crisis and communicate or escalate changes in patient conditions and concerns to appropriate team members, management, licensed providers, or approved parties.
Implement and document patient responses to individualized care plans, behavioral information collection, and behavioral or educational protocols.
Provide approved delegated patient care as appropriate to the care location and patient needs, including activities of daily living and other listed care tasks.
Engage patients’ families and support systems in treatment as established in the medical record, and provide condition and progress updates to approved parents and legal guardians.
Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team, participate in planning meetings, assist during patient care, and support parent and staff training related to behavioral and educational programs.
Lead psychoeducation and recreational group activities, adapting content to patients’ needs and developmental functioning while supporting positive engagement and safe behaviors.
Implement psychology-designed behavioral and educational protocols and prescribed individual or group intervention plans; contribute observations about antecedents, behaviors, and outcomes and participate in problem-solving treatment options.
Provide trauma-informed, relationship-based care; develop clinically appropriate rapport, use positive engagement and unconditional positive regard, and help maintain a safe, stable, and nurturing environment.
Participate in team planning, multidisciplinary programming, program material creation and management, special projects, and shift reports or handoffs.
Complete seclusion and restraint documentation accurately and within the required timeframe.
Participate in huddles as appropriate, maintain situational awareness, complete environmental checklists and other safety or quality tasks, and assist with data collection, management, and graphing for ongoing treatment plans.
Document progress on treatment SMART goals and patient responses to treatment, and attend required training on current documentation processes.