BHS, Neurobehavioral Psychiatry, College Hill

Cincinnati Children's•Easton, PA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is within the Neurobehavioral Psychiatry department at Cincinnati Children's, specifically located at College Hill A. The position is a full-time role with a weekly schedule of 32 hours, designated as 0.8 FTE. It is a regular employee status position. The primary focus is on delivering patient care through established processes and procedures, demonstrating resilience, and actively engaging in personal clinical development. The role involves managing the environment, delivering care, implementing patient care plans, leading clinical activities, developing patient relationships, and meticulous documentation. Care delivery is team-oriented and may involve working with multiple patients, specific 1:1 assignments, or managing specific locations/environments.

Requirements

High school diploma and 2+ years of experience or Bachelor's degree in related field
May require clinical license, certification or training

Responsibilities

Deliver patient care by following processes and procedures and demonstrates resilience by being receptive to ongoing instruction, coaching, and feedback.
Take ownership of personal clinical development by actively engaging with advanced team members and the multidisciplinary team, exhibits curiosity, and proactively seeks out knowledge and learning opportunities.
Leverage practical experience to identify recurring patterns, recognizing behaviors and proactively anticipating typical reactions.
Support the team by sharing knowledge to enhance overall clinical proficiency and foster a collaborative learning environment.
Adapt communication style to effectively listen and communicate with a diverse group, including patients, their families, and the multidisciplinary team.
Coordinate the assigned area by utilizing safety, structure, planning, participation, and support.
Perform environmental checks while adhering to patient safety and treatment schedules.
Prevent and respond to escalations and crises utilizing Therapeutic Crisis Intervention concepts, which may include physical restraint to ensure the safety of patients, staff, and others.
Take the lead role during a behavioral crisis, and appropriately deploy interventions aligned with the stress model of crisis and patient treatment plans.
Ensure the work area is safe and organized and that treatment schedules are progressing appropriately.
Adhere to established policies, procedures, and protocols, complete all patient/safety checks, and follow patient observation level protocols.
Prepare the necessary materials for the patient populations.
Support the patient's stabilization from acute crisis in accordance with respective care location and patient needs.
Demonstrate collaborative efforts with the multidisciplinary team and escalate change in patient conditions or any concerns to management, the appropriate staff, licensed providers, and approved parties, including following documented escalation plans.
Implement/document the patient's response to individualized care plans, which may include patient behavioral information collection or implementing behavioral/educational protocols.
Provide approved care to patients as delegated, including activities for daily living, intake and output, feeding, bathing, toileting, isolation precautions, emergency care for patients with lines and tubes, per care location and patient needs.
Engage the patient's family and support system in the treatment plan as established in the medical record.
Provide updates to the approved parents and legal guardians regarding patient condition and progress.
Collaborate with all members of the multidisciplinary team and escalate change in patient conditions using the documented escalation process, where applicable, or to a licensed staff member.
Participate in regular team planning meetings as appropriate or needed.
Assist the multidisciplinary team during patient care, and/or parent and staff training related to individual behavioral and education programs, data collection, and environmental modifications to promote patient success.
Lead psychoeducation and recreational group activities ensuring positive patient engagement and safe behaviors.
Adapt group content to meet the needs and the functional developmental level of the participating patients.
Implement behavioral and educational protocols as designed by psychology staff.
Provide insight into antecedent events, behaviors, and outcomes that may affect behavioral treatment.
Implement individualized and group behavior and education intervention plans as prescribed.
Utilize crisis intervention techniques as appropriate.
Participate in problem-solving of behavioral treatment options.
Provide trauma-informed, relationship-based care to a diverse patient population with an awareness of how personal experiences and biases impact interactions with others.
Adapt approach as needed and engage patients at their level of functioning while also recognizing the effects of trauma on each patient, including behavioral aggression.
Develop clinically appropriate rapport through a variety of care interactions, including but not limited to interactions in the general care environment and during 1:1 patient assignment.
Engage in trauma-informed communication, positive engagement, and unconditional positive regard during all interactions with patients and caregivers.
Build and sustain an environment that is safe, stable, and nurturing.
Actively participate in team planning meetings, multidisciplinary team programming, creation and management of program materials, or special projects and during shift report/handoff.
Assure seclusion and restraint documentation is accurately completed within the appropriate timeframe.
Demonstrate collaboration with all members of the multidisciplinary team and escalate observations of changes in patient conditions or any general concerns to the appropriate staff, management, and licensed provider.
Participate in huddles as appropriate and utilize situational awareness, always mindful of the environment.
Complete the environmental checklist or other general aspects of care environment associated with safety or quality assurance.
Assist with data collection included but not limited to patient observation checks, data management, and graphing of ongoing treatment plans.
Provide documentation of progress on treatment SMART goals and patient response to treatment.
Stay abreast and attend all required trainings on current documentation processes.