Behavioral Health Clinician, Nights

Behavioral Emergency Response Team Clinician

At Memorial Hermann, we pursue a common goal of delivering high quality, efficient care while creating exceptional experiences for every member of our community. When we say every member of our community, that includes our employees. We know that when our employees feel cared for, heard and valued, they are inspired to create moments that exceed expectations, while prioritizing safety, compassion, personalization and efficiency.

If you want to advance your career and contribute to our vision of creating healthier communities, now and for generations to come, we want you to be a part of our team.

Behavioral Emergency Response Team (BERT) clinicians provide support to patients and staff at the Texas Medical Center campus of Memorial Hermann. They work with the treatment to help de-escalate situations and develop individualized care plans that target challenging behaviors to ultimately help with reducing injuries to patients and staff. BERT clinicians collaborate with multi-disciplinary team members to identify patient-specific needs and barriers to treatment compliance.

The BERT clinicians play a major role in an established hospital response process that offers staff assistance before a patient or situation escalates. Following their intervention, the BERT clinicians establish a care plan which includes patient-specific triggers and interventions. The clinicians are considered a behavioral health resource to the care teams and are called upon for support and guidance when staff are uncertain about their approach in caring for their patient.

TMC Behavioral Emergency Response Team Shift (Thurs-Sat ) and every other Wed 1900-3:00a

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Masters Degree in Social Work and licensure as a clinician or undergoing clinical supervision; or Master Degree in Education (Counseling); or Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.

Licenses/Certification:
Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Marriage Family Therapist-Associate (LMFT-A), or Licensed Marriage Family Therapist (LMFT)

Experience / Knowledge /

Skills:

• Five (5) years psychiatric/healthcare field experience preferred, Internships considered.
• Knowledge of best practices in working with various psychiatric populations.
• The ability to work independently.
• Proven capability in conducting evaluations to determine the psychosocial and psychiatric needs of adults, children and families.
• Demonstrates the ability to complete thorough risk assessments for suicide and homicide.
• Effective use of the role of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) in diagnosing mental illness.
• Demonstrates an ability to recommend the appropriate psychiatric levels of care.
• Applies crisis intervention techniques as well as evidenced based counseling techniques with both individuals and family members.
• Developed skill set of family systems and effective strategies for engaging the family in the patient's treatment.
• Maintain clinician annual core competencies in: HIPAA/Privacy, Cultural Competence, Information Security Awareness, Domestic Violence, Levels of Care, Medications, Substance Use, DSM, Suicide/Homicide Assessments, and Psychiatric Emergencies.
• Theoretical knowledge of interviewing, assessment, organizational and problem solving skills.
• Ability to apply theory into the practice of:
  1) identifying appropriate community resources on assigned caseload and
  2) working collaboratively with patients, families, multi-disciplinary team and community agencies to achieve desired patient outcomes
  3) Seeking consultation/supervision from team clinical leaders on complex psychiatric and/or medical cases when clinically appropriate.
• Possess knowledge of the importance of interpersonal communication and negotiation skills in interactions with patients, families, physicians and health care team colleagues. Good analytical and PC skills. Understands the need to develop collaborative relationships with physicians, families, patients, interdisciplinary team and other community agencies. Good communication skills and the theoretical knowledge of the importance of negotiation skills.
• Openness to working with people of all social, economic, and cultural backgrounds; being open-minded and adaptable to change. Demonstrate the ability to connect patients and families with necessary services, both inside and outside the MHHS network. Some knowledge of services available in the local community, particularly services available to patients with limited or non-existent payment resources. Demonstrate patience and tact when dealing with clients and other staff.
• Demonstrates commitment to the Partners-in-Caring process by integrating our culture in all internal and external customer interactions; delivers on our brand promise of "we advance health" through innovation, accountability, empowerment, collaboration, compassion and results while ensuring one Memorial…