Lead Clinical Therapy (LIMHP) Crisis Assessment Center - 24-hrs per week

Job Description

Schedule: 7pm‑7:30am (average 24 hours per week)

Children’s, the region’s only full‑service pediatric healthcare center, makes us the very best for kids. We cultivate passion, purpose, and professional development in an environment of excellence and inclusion, supporting and deeply valuing our team members. Opportunities for career growth abound as we expand our services and spaces, including the cutting‑edge Hubbard Center for Children.

Children’s is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer including veterans and people with disabilities.

Performs a variety of clinical lead functions, including leading and coordinating the daily clinical operational activities of the unit. Ensures the delivery of quality patient care by holding staff accountable to established patient care and regulatory standards. Interprets policies and procedures to clinical and paraprofessional staff and patients/families. Builds, maintains, and supports a culture that fosters effective working relationships within a safe working environment.

Supports the unit by providing quality psychotherapy and education to children and families and conducts clinical assessments when needed. Diagnose and treat patients independently. Establishes and maintains professional working relationships with hospital staff, physicians, community agencies, and professionals. Provides professional presentations, interviews, and services that enhance the organization’s visibility and reputation in the community.

• CLINICAL OPERATIONS
  • Managing patient flow in coordination with other leads, supervisors, and team members.
  • Overseeing the delivery of patient care and coordinating admissions, discharges, transfers, and responding to unforeseen events by adjusting patient assignments as needed.
  • Effectively solving problems to maximize resources to maintain patient flow, quality patient care, and open communication between healthcare team members and departments.
  • Ensuring clinical documentation is completed in a timely manner.
  • Following up with team members floating to other areas at least once during the shift, supporting staff who float into the unit clinically, welcoming them as part of the team, and assigning them a buddy.
  • Working collaboratively with leadership to meet staffing challenges, taking accountability for the impact of staffing decisions in the unit.
  • Ensuring that staff have the supplies, equipment, information, and resources needed to provide quality patient care in a safe work environment.
  • Providing effective training on skills and changes within the industry to new and current employees.
  • Remaining current on skills and training and serving as a clinical expert.
  • Playing an integral role in planning for current and future clinical needs and resources.
• COMMUNICATION
  • Listening and seeking clarification through the rounding process, completing rounding and using findings to develop solutions to identified issues within scope of accountability.
  • Representing the needs and interests of direct reports to all levels of the leadership structure.
  • Communicating effectively orally and in writing.
  • Taking the initiative to communicate proactively and following up on issues.
• QUALITY, COMPLIANCE, AND SAFETY
  • Making changes in clinical assignments based on patient care needs and demonstrated staff competencies.
  • Promoting a safe, therapeutic, customer‑friendly environment, responding promptly to patient, family, and staff concerns and seeking to bring issues to resolution.
  • Providing feedback to the patient care team regarding issues.
  • Demonstrating clinical knowledge needed to coach staff on day‑to‑day activities and pursuing continuous learning to gain additional knowledge in clinical specialty areas.
  • Interacting effectively with members of the health care team to monitor and achieve quality patient outcomes.
  • Exercising problem‑solving skills to optimize patient flow while maintaining quality patient care, collaborating with the healthcare team regarding bed management and ensuring appropriate patient placement based on clinical needs and improving outpatient procedural metrics.
  • Implementing…