Milieu Supervisor - East Unit

UHS • Bartlett, TN

7d

About The Position

The Milieu Supervisor is responsible for the supervision and safety of patients by Community Counselors on the East unit. The Milieu Supervisor creates a safe environment for patients, saves lives when necessary, provides hope, empowers patients, and teaches new tools for staff to use when working with patients. The Milieu Supervisor provides direct patient care under the supervision of the Director of Nursing. Primary responsibilities include the supervision of CC’s, ensuring a safe and therapeutic milieu, crisis intervention, individual/family education groups, and ensuring all patients attend to their activities of daily living. The Milieu Supervisor also ensures that the program schedule set in place by the Program Director is adhered to by staff. The Milieu Supervisor will serve as a liaison between Social Services, Nursing Services, and Medical Staff Services. Additionally, the Milieu Supervisor will work with all Nursing staff to ensure Special Behavioral Treatment Plans are carried out as written by the treatment team. The Milieu Supervisor will function as a staff-development trainer, sharing expert techniques and strategies with core and prn staff. This will include demonstrating effective crisis-management skills, taking proactive steps to prevent crises on the units when warning signs become evident, and provide a coach-to-team approach of problem-solving on the units. Additionally, the Milieu Supervisor will be responsible for recognizing nursing team members who need additional training with therapeutic techniques/skills and provide intentional redirection and oversight to help improve such skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Special Education, Psychology, or related field preferred.
• Must have 5 – 7 years of experience in hospital or healthcare setting; experience with behavioral health population preferred.
• Must possess knowledge of psychiatric group processes, therapeutic relationships processes, age specific growth and development, limit setting and behavior management, crisis management with aggressive behaviors, and CPR training.

Responsibilities

• supervision and safety of patients
• creates a safe environment for patients
• saves lives when necessary
• provides hope
• empowers patients
• teaches new tools for staff to use when working with patients
• provides direct patient care under the supervision of the Director of Nursing
• supervision of CC’s
• ensuring a safe and therapeutic milieu
• crisis intervention
• individual/family education groups
• ensuring all patients attend to their activities of daily living
• ensures that the program schedule set in place by the Program Director is adhered to by staff
• serve as a liaison between Social Services, Nursing Services, and Medical Staff Services
• work with all Nursing staff to ensure Special Behavioral Treatment Plans are carried out as written by the treatment team
• function as a staff-development trainer, sharing expert techniques and strategies with core and prn staff
• demonstrating effective crisis-management skills
• taking proactive steps to prevent crises on the units when warning signs become evident
• provide a coach-to-team approach of problem-solving on the units
• responsible for recognizing nursing team members who need additional training with therapeutic techniques/skills and provide intentional redirection and oversight to help improve such skills

Benefits

• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan for full-time and part-time positions
• 401k plan with company match for full-time and part-time positions
• Generous Paid Time Off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees