Program Coordinator, Peace Hospital, 1E Adult Detox, 7a-7p
About The Position
UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system comprising five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, and over 700 providers, including the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center. With more than 12,000 team members, UofL Health is dedicated to delivering patient-centered care. The Behavioral Health Program Coordinator is responsible for the planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and implementing structured therapeutic program activities for individuals and groups of patients on an assigned patient care unit during a specific shift. This role may involve providing care to various patient populations, including pediatrics, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree counseling psychology, psychology or other closely related health degree
- In lieu of Bachelor’s degree, a minimum of 5 years clinical experience specific to unit, program and field
- Active drivers license authorization (if required by position/department operations)
- Basic Life Support (BLS) accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA)
- Facility determined crisis intervention training program
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in counseling psychology, psychology or other closely related behavioral health degree
Responsibilities
- Monitors therapeutic milieu to identify need to initiate structured interventions to ensure that patients are engaged and needs are met and acts as a patient advocate by ensuring each individual’s rights are maintained at all times
- Provides leadership and guidance to unit staff, in collaboration with the nursing leadership, as it relates to programming and interventions to achieve and maintain a therapeutic milieu
- Stays informed regarding changing status of all patients on the unit and, in collaboration with the nursing leadership, assists in providing leadership to maintain a safe and therapeutic environment for patients and staff utilizing proactive techniques to de-escalate the milieu and/or individuals
- Participates in development, implementation and utilization of therapeutic milieu activities and interventions
- Intervenes to facilitate crisis intervention or conflict resolution for patients within the unit milieu during assigned shift; responds to codes on own unit in a timely manner using procedures established by policy
- Performs specific functions and skills to assist the nursing staff in providing patient care as needed; to include specimen collection, hygiene, and activities of daily living
- Coordinates and communicates with the patients, families, physicians and other related health disciplines regarding patient’s needs as it relates to program interventions and activities
- Achieve and maintain Transportation Dept. authorization to operate facility vehicles (if required by position/department operations)
- Performs delegated and ancillary basic nursing skills, including activities of daily living, monitoring of patient condition and vital signs, body mechanics, providing nutritional support and other activities as appropriate to clinical service, in accordance with hospital standards, nursing standards of care, and policies and procedures
- Performs functional assignments per unit standards of care, including such activities as patient admission and discharge procedures, unit environmental organizational tasks, and others as appropriate to service
- Maintains compliance with all company policies, procedures and standards of conduct
- Complies with HIPAA privacy and security requirements to maintain confidentiality at all times
- Performs other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
