Sr Clinical Therapist PD

SUMMARY

Provides crisis services and intervention to client’s potential crisis through telephone and face-to-face evaluation. 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Main duties and responsibilities include:

• Worker is directly accessed via an answering service and is to respond by phone within 15 minutes during the entirety of shift.
• Provides face-to-face mental health evaluations in hospital emergency rooms, police stations, and at people’s homes as needed.
• Provides consultation with other service providers regarding referrals and other resources.
• Provides consultation with other clinical staff relevant to clinical issues with clients.
• Consults with the administrator-on-call and psychiatrist-on-call to discuss concerns/difficult clinical situations, issues with system/providers, incident report level issues, state contract bed and children’s admissions, and exploration of options/alternatives, and also for support.
• Has knowledge base and can access all resources for hospitalization and crisis stabilization/hospital diversion.
• Completes documentation including incident reports of every contact that occurs as well as results from consult with the administrator or psychiatrist on-call.
• Obtains shifts or information about clients in crisis ½ hour prior to the beginning of their shift.
• Provides report after every shift by 8 a.m. on Monday through Friday and by 8 a.m. on Monday from every weekend shift.
• Completes all documentation and forwards to a regional mental health center 24 hours after the completion of their shift.
• Refers clients to other community resources as needed.
• Attends all necessary meetings as assigned.
• Provides supervision and consultation to assigned on-call clinicians who require training in emergency services protocol.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned or needed.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Qualification requirements include:

• All workers must have an R.N. and/or Master’s Degree for above in a related mental health program to be eligible for on-call.
• All R.N’s are required to have a nursing license.
• Any other licenses will be forwarded to personnel and also the business office for billing purposes.
• Must be certified or certifiable by Department of MHRH as an Emergency Services clinician.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team, self-motivated.

JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITY

Job knowledge, skill, and ability requirements include:

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from professionals, managers, clients, family, and the general public.
• Ability to reach, analyze, and interpret professional journals, policy procedures, and governmental regulations.
• Ability to clearly and cogently document clinical and other information in accordance with Policies and Procedures.
• Ability to write reports and general correspondence.
• Possess an empathetic attitude toward clients and family members balanced by an ability to maintain professional objectivity and commitment to professional values such as self-determination, confidentiality, and self-awareness.
• Ability to successfully complete all required training and certifications.
• Oral and written communication skills, including speech, grammar, spelling, and legibility are at sufficient level to ensure effective and appropriate communication.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals either manually or by use of a calculator.

ETHICS

Uses and accesses information in client’s health information record or about a client only as necessary to actual duties and then only in accordance with access levels assigned to this position by Gateway Healthcare Inc. from time-to-time and in accordance with Gateway Healthcare Inc. policies, rules, and procedures as adopted by Gateway Healthcare Inc. from time-to-time.

INTERPERSONAL FACTORS

Must be able to appreciate the sensitive/private nature and legal status of information about individual clients obtained, maintained, or used by Gateway Healthcare Inc. and to not access, use, disclose, or request such information about a client unless necessary to the performance of his/her job.

PHYSICAL/ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, office equipment, or controls and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, and climb. The employee is occasionally required to stand; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the abilities to adjust focus. The employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

PAY RANGE

$17.00-$26.60

LOCATION

GHI-Pawtucket-101 Bacon Street - 101 Bacon St. Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860

WORK TYPE

Monday to Friday 4:30 PM to 8:30 AM, Weekends/Holidays 24 hours per diem

WORK SHIFT

Evening

DAILY HOURS

Per Diem - As required

DRIVING REQUIRED

Yes

Brown University Health is an Equal Opportunity employer.