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Behavioral Health Therapist III PRN Nights Position Summary:
Provides comprehensive assessment, treatment, discharge planning, other related clinical behavioral health services, and referrals for patients and their families. This assessment will involve the ability to interview, evaluate, organize, prioritize, communicate, document, and implement a safe, comprehensive, individualized, and cost-effective plan of care and discharge plan.
Administer and evaluate Level of Care (LOC) assessments. Utilize assessment to plan treatment.
Utilize medical necessity criteria and LOC assessments in dispositions.
Develop treatment plan including attainable goals, measurable objectives, and discharge criteria.
Integrate collaterals and community supports in treatment planning. Access community services and resources.
Provide appropriate treatment modality – individual, group, family.
Functions as a clinical resource for the Behavioral Health department as a whole and other PAT members related to clinical disorders and psychopathology; demonstrate solution-focused approach; demonstrate knowledge of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
Demonstrate ability to form an effective therapeutic relationship. Maintain confidentiality regarding patient care; develops effective resolutions to conflicts with peers, coworkers, and managers are actively sought by this associate.
Conduct thorough mental status examination. Identify precipitating problems: symptoms; issues; biopsychosocial (physical, sexual, substance abuse).
Conduct comprehensive risk assessment.
Integrate information to formulate diagnostic impression.
Implement treatment plan, continually assess progress and change plan as appropriate.
Effectively demonstrate de-escalation of agitated patients.
Respond to situations-DTS, DTO, physical violence, crisis, and medical emergency.
Demonstrate appropriate crisis intervention strategies.
Formulate and activate crisis treatment goals and objectives.
Provide enhancement of clinical services to support the continuum of care.
Develop effective aftercare plans.
Demonstrate effective working relationships with peers and effective part of an interdisciplinary team. Maintain collaborative professional relationships.
Assist and work with staff in the continuum of care.
Accept direction and supervision in conjunction with department policies and procedures. Seek out additional responsibilities.
Demonstrate knowledge of progression illness and patient response to treatment.
Demonstrate competency in presenting care reviews and coordinating care in team.
Maintain affiliation with appropriate professional or technical organizations. Maintain all relevant credentials.
Maintain educational and training to enhance clinical work and to meet licensing and hospital standards.
Document client information. Maintain current accurate documentation. Meet timelines.
Demonstrate ability to communicate clinical information clearly, concisely, and legibly.
Maintain records according to hospital and reviewers’ standards.
THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH THERAPIST III PRN NIGHTS CANDIDATE WILL POSSESS THE FOLLOWING EDUCATION, LICENSE/CERTIFICATIONS, AND EXPERIENCE.
Education
Required: Minimum of a Master’s degree in behavioral health field.
Licensure
Required: State of Arizona license provided by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners.
Preferred: Current CPR and CPI certifications.
Experience
Required: 5 years behavioral health experience.
Preferred: Experience in inpatient behavioral health hospital providing behavioral health acute care services to seriously mentally ill individuals; experience with short-term solution-based therapeutic interventions; crisis/Emergency Department experience.
Skills
Required: Self-directed, creative problem-solving skills; communication and teaching; organizational; interpersonal; team building and collaboration; psychosocial assessment; interview; documentation; identification of potential risk situations or potential liability; cultural sensitivity. Respectful and professional demeanor under stress.
Preferred: Bilingual—Spanish.
Knowledge
Required: Quality improvement process, related health care practices and standards; knowledge and competency in providing care for seriously mentally ill patients; State regulatory requirements concerning duty to warn; abuse issues and involuntary patient disposition and court ordered treatment; individual, group, and family theory related to the care of at-risk behavioral health patients; principles and current practice of substance abuse treatment.
Preferred: Certification in substance abuse.
Technology
Required: Basic computer skills; personal technology tools; awareness of current use of technology in related field.
Preferred: Advanced computer skills.
Other
Required: Must be able to transport self within the service area as required; when using own vehicle, must have valid Arizona Driver’s License and proof of insurance that meets the minimum standards of the State of Arizona; must be able to take call duty, weekend, holiday, and evening/night shift as required.
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