BHS, Neurobehavioral Psychiatry, College Hill

Job Responsibilities

• Team Member - Accountable for delivering patient care by following processes and procedures and demonstrates resilience by being receptive to ongoing instruction, coaching, and feedback.
• Takes ownership of personal clinical development by actively engaging with advanced team members and the multidisciplinary team, exhibits curiosity, and proactively seeks out knowledge and learning opportunities.
• Leverages practical experience to identify recurring patterns, recognizing behaviors and proactively anticipating typical reactions.
• Supports the team by sharing knowledge to enhance overall clinical proficiency and foster a collaborative learning environment.
• Adapts communication style to effectively listen and communicate with a diverse group, including our patients, their families, and the multidisciplinary team.

Environment Management and Care Delivery

• Coordinates the assigned area by utilizing the following components: safety, structure, planning, participation, and support.
• Performs environmental checks while adhering to patient safety and treatment schedules.
• Prevents and responds to escalations and crises utilizing Therapeutic Crisis Intervention concepts, which may include physical restraint to ensure the safety of patients, staff, and others.
• Takes the lead role during a behavioral crisis, and appropriately deploys interventions aligned with the stress model of crisis and patient treatment plans.
• Ensures the work area is safe and organized and that treatment schedules are progressing appropriately.
• Adheres to established policies, procedures, and protocols, completes all patient/safety checks, and follows patient observation level protocols.
• Prepares the necessary materials for the patient populations.

Care Plan Implementation

• Implement/document the patient's response to individualized care plans, which may include patient behavioral information collection or implementing behavioral/educational protocols.
• Engage the patient's family and support system in treatment plan as established in the medical record.
• Provide updates to the approved parents and legal guardians regarding patient condition and progress.
• Collaborate with all members of the multidisciplinary team and escalates change in patient conditions using the documented escalation process, where applicable.
• Participate in regular team planning meetings as appropriate or needed.
• Aid the multidisciplinary team during patient care, and/or parent and staff training related to individual behavioral and education programs, data collection, and environmental modifications to promote patient success.

Relationship Development / Communication

• Provides trauma informed, relationship-based care to a diverse patient population with an awareness of how personal experiences and biases impacts interactions with others.
• Adapts approach as needed and engage patients at their level of functioning while also recognizing the effects of trauma on each patient, including behavioral aggression.
• Develops clinically appropriate rapport through a variety of care interactions, including but not limited to interactions in the general care environment and during 1:1 patient assignment.
• Engages in trauma-informed communication, positive engagement, and unconditional positive regard during all interactions with patients and caregivers.
• Buils and sustains an environment that is safe, stable, and nurturing.
• Actively participates in team planning meetings, multidisciplinary team programming, creation and management of program materials, or special projects and during shift report/handoff.

Documentation and Data Management

• Affirms seclusion and restraint documentation is accurately completed within the appropriate timeframe.
• Demonstrates collaboration with all members of the multidisciplinary team and escalates observations of changes in patient conditions or any general concerns to the appropriate staff, management and licensed provider.
• Participates in huddles as appropriate and utilizes situational awareness, always mindful of the environment.
• Completes the environmental checklist or other general aspects of care environment associated with safety or quality assurance.
• Aids in data collection included but not limited to patient observation checks, data management, and graphing of ongoing treatment plans.
• Provides documentation of progress on treatment SMART goals and patient response to treatment.
• Stays abreast and attends all required trainings on current documentation processes.