Behavioral Health Clinician - Adult Behavioral Health Hamilton

Overview

To aid the interdisciplinary team in the assessment, treatment planning, psychotherapy/counseling, and discharge planning for patients on the inpatient behavioral health units.

Certifications:

Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Training within 3 months - Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI)
Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI)
Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI),

Education:

Master's Degree:
Social Work,

Work Experience:

Provides individual, group, and family counseling to assist patients/families in achieving treatment goals.

• Provides individual counseling to patients as stipulated on the treatment plan
• Facilitates a minimum of one regularly scheduled group therapy/week
• Assures that families are involved in treatment a minimum of two times/week
• Provides family counseling as stipulated on the treatment plan (adult/geriatric unit)
• Interventions reflect a knowledge of age appropriate behaviors
• Group facilitation reflects expertise in group dynamics
• Cognitive behavior therapy and other brief therapies are utilized whenever appropriate
• Documentation is timely, succinct, legible, and uses the DAIR format.
• During times of low census (less than
  4), will assist with milieu management as well as admission assessments and intakes at the direction of the Nurse Manager
• When assisting as a team member to control an aggressive or violent patient, CPI methods will be used.

• Initial assessment is completed by the close of the first business day following admission.
• Documentation is timely, legible and succinct and includes impression and recommendation.
• Family and significant others are utilized whenever possible in the completion of the initial assessment
• All salient factors are included in the patient assessment
• Patient is ongoingly assessed during informal sessions as well as during formal individual and family sessions.
• Documentation of ongoing assessments reflect progress towards goals outlined in treatment plan

• Participates actively in regularly scheduled staffing meetings as well as community, return to work, discharge, and school staffing.
• Participation reflects knowledge of the patient's strengths, illness, support systems, and history
• Document identified problems, discipline specific interventions, discharge plan, goals met, etc on the care path
• Proactively meets with other members of the treatment team on a daily basis to coordinate care and discharge planning specifically; psychiatrist, case managers, other community providers, patients and family members.
• Begins discharge planning process as soon after admission as is clinically appropriate and that plan is in place prior to discharge.
• Keeps patient/family informed of plans as they progress (when clinically appropriate)
• Uses creativity and patient advocacy in the planning and implementation of the discharge plan
• Facilitates transition between levels of care within Service Line continuum of care
• Provides necessary information to providers at next level of care

• Demonstrates thorough knowledge of the Mental Health Code, the Confidentiality Act, The Mental Health Treatment Preference Act, HIPAA, laws pertaining to guardianship and custody, advance directive legislation and MMCI policies, as well as Elderly and Child Abuse reporting laws
• Assists patients/families/staff in obtaining temporary or permanent guardianship whenever necessary
• Assists with appropriate filing of petitions, certificates, etc. with the court
• Assists with all court proceedings so that hearings are conducted with little disruption to the unit, that all necessary people are in attendance, and that all documentation is in order.
• Makes necessary phone calls to child and elderly welfare agencies to report abuse and/or neglect.

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