Outpatient Primary Therapist II

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation•Rome, GA

14d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is within the Floyd Behavioral Health Services - Behavioral Health O/P: Adult Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP). The Outpatient Primary Therapist II is responsible for coordinating patient care, facilitating group therapy, developing programming, and providing therapeutic treatment for identified patients. This role involves supervising patients during program hours, establishing positive relationships with patients and professionals, and planning psychoeducational groups. The therapist also co-facilitates group therapy and assists in adult groups as needed. Additionally, the role requires completing comprehensive documentation, participating in discharge planning, and communicating effectively with staff nurses and physicians regarding patient treatment and medication concerns. The therapist will also participate in treatment teams, attend staff meetings, and perform other duties to maintain a safe and therapeutic clinical environment, including assisting with time-out supervision and providing one-on-one interventions. The role requires constant interaction with confidential information and making decisions regarding patient emotional status and potential harm to self or others. Daily interaction with psychiatrists, nurses, social services, occupational therapists, patients, families, and outside agencies is expected to provide appropriate services and programs. The position also involves organizational and professional development, including staying abreast of programs, complying with safety and infection control, attending in-service programs, managing resources responsibly, and participating in process improvement initiatives. The therapist will also assist in the orientation and supervision of new employees and students and complete required continuing education.

Requirements

Licensed by the state of Georgia (LPC, LCSW, LMSW, LMFT)
Master's degree in counseling or related field from an accredited institute
At least 1 year related experience
Full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
Standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
Occasionally lifts and carries weight up to 50 pounds.
Ability to distinguish letters, numbers and symbols with vision and hearing within normal range to respond to Code alerts and equipment alarms.
Work-related stress due to volume and time constraints with irregular working hours.

Nice To Haves

Master’s in Social Work

Responsibilities

Coordinates Patient Care
Facilitates group therapy and develops programming and therapeutic treatment for identified patients.
Supervises patients during program hours.
Monitors hallways, patients going to restroom, etc.
Monitors patients during meal times and break times.
Establishes and maintains positive relationships with patients, physicians, allied health professionals and all referral sources.
Plans and facilitates psycho educational groups.
Co-facilitates group therapy, treatment issues and expressive therapy with therapists.
Assists in facilitating adult groups when needed.
Works cooperatively with Program Manager in program development.
Assists in meal preparation and service with patients.
Supervises patients as they enter and leave facility and get on and off transportation vans.
Completes appropriate documentation for treatment plans, progress notes, weekly updates and group notes in specified time limits.
Documents calls and related information on designated forms.
Participates in discharge planning and referral contacts and verifies follow through and documentation of discharge plans.
Checks and audits charts for documentation and charge errors.
Assists interns with documentation as needed.
Assists in taking daily attendance of program patients and calls parents or guardians if patients are absent and documents in the clinical record.
Communicates treatment issues and medication concerns to Nurses and Physicians daily.
Participates in treatment teams with coworkers and helps write treatment plan reviews in conjunction with treatment team members.
Attends staff meetings as needed.
Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with supervisors and coworkers.
Performs other duties needed to maintain safe and therapeutic clinical environment.
Assists in time-out supervision with patients as needed and provides one-on-one interventions with patients to de-escalate behaviors in time-out.
Performs therapeutic holds on patients as needed.
Attends debriefings on patients as needed.
Works constantly with confidential information and must constantly make decisions concerning true emotional status of patients, i.e., ability to harm self and others.
Interacts daily with psychiatrist nurses, social services, occupational therapists and patients to provide appropriate services and programs to patients.
Interacts with family and outside agencies for patient care on a daily basis.
Stays abreast of organization’s programs and services.
Complies with facility safety, infection control and security program.
Attends in-service programs as mandated per policy.
Manages resources responsibly.
Maintains a clean and neat physical environment in compliance with infection prevention standards.
Seeks and identifies opportunities to improve care, patient flow or utilization of resources.
Participates in process improvement initiatives for the department and facility as directed.
Participates in the orientation and supervision of new employees and students.
Assists in orienting new staff.
Participates in training and development activities to enhance own knowledge and skills.
Completes required facility and departmental continuing education.