Exposure Coach

Under the direction of the Clinical Director and daily monitoring by the Exposure Coach III, is responsible for the care and safety of assigned children. As a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team, assumes primary Exposure Coach I role. Is responsible for input into the formulation of an exposure with response prevention (ERP)-based therapeutic milieu care plan as well as the implementation, observation, and documentation of this program under the direction of the Clinical Director and Exposure Coach III.

Provides services to childrendolescents.

Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another.

In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include:

• Instill Trust and Value Differences
• Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate

• Actively engages with assigned children throughout shift.
• Participates in the development and operationalization of the ERP-based milieu care plan for assigned patients according to established department and unit-based procedure/policy.
• Supervises assigned children in exposure-based milieu activities.
• Assists patients in completing anxiety-impacted ADLs using an exposure therapy framework to help patient move toward, rather than avoid, anxiety triggers.
• Identifies, reports, and resolves potentialctual problems on the unit.
• Demonstrates appropriate critical incident follow-up skills by timely verbal reporting to program RN and documentation in medical record. Completes other documentation [i.e.: incident reports, seclusion, and restraint forms (MR38)] as applicable. Participates in debriefings.
• Carries out daily assignment as assigned by Clinical Director and Exposure Coach III and reports back prior to end of program day.
• Intervenes in disruptive milieu or destructive to self/other patient situations providing timely therapeutic intervention(s) to children in distress.
• Maintains appropriate boundaries.

• Attends peer review and staff meetings as assigned.
• Maintains current certification in crisis management.
• Maintains current CPR certification.
• Maintains current OSHA, ERS, Safety Certifications
• Attends unit/hospital staff development as assigned.

• Participates in the initial admission interview process as assigned.
• Works to support initial therapeutic alliance with patient and family on admission. Assists with the separation process and performs other duties necessary to provide a smooth transition to the program milieu.
• Completes initial program assessment with patient including eliciting specific details about patient’s anxiety symptoms. Collaborates with patient’s psychologist and psychiatrist to develop initial anxiety symptom hierarchy that will guide ERP throughout the admission and are the core part of implementing ERP with patients.
• Review’s milieu care plan and anxiety symptom hierarchy daily and suggests revisions based on observations.
• Communicates individual patient milieu care plans and anxiety symptom hierarchy updates in an ongoing manner to other unit staff including liaison with other interdisciplinary treatment providers.
• Actively participates in diagnostic conferences, treatment team, rounds, and hand-off shift report, as assigned.
• Is aware of…