Associate Clinical Therapist III

Department:

36608 Floyd Behavioral Health Services - Behavioral Health O/P: Adult Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Monday-Friday, 8-4:30. No major holidays or weekends

Pay Range:

$28.55 - $42.85

Major Responsibilities:

• Provision of Care: Responsible daily for the coordination of patient care through the following duties: Facilitates group therapy, relapse prevention, coping skills, identifies healthy recovery environments, risk for relapse, and or develops programming and therapeutic treatment for identified patients. Supervises patients during program hours. Establishes and maintains positive relationships with patients, physicians, allied health professionals, and all referral sources. Works cooperatively with Program Manager in program development. Assists in the service to the patients. Supervises patients as they enter and leave PHP and get on off transportation vans. Assists in supervision with patients as needed and provide one-on-one interventions with patients to de-escalate behaviors. Performs therapeutic holds on patients as needed. Attends debriefings on patients as needed.
• Documentation and Management of Medical Record: Completes appropriate documentation - treatment plans, assessments, progress notes, weekly updates and group notes in specified time limits. Documents calls and related information on designated forms. Participates in discharge planning and referral contacts, and verifies follow through and documentation of discharge plans. Checks and audits charts for documentation and or charge errors. Assist interns with documentation as needed. Assists in taking daily attendance of program patients and call patients, parents guardians if patients are absent and document this in the medical record
• Communication Team Work Conduct: Communicates treatment issues and medication concerns to the staff nurse and or physician daily and or as needed. Participates in treatment teams with other staff persons and helps write treatment plan reviews in conjunction with treatment team members. Attends staff meetings as needed. Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with managers, supervisors, coworkers, and staff of other departments. Performs other duties needed to maintain safe and therapeutic clinical environment. Demonstrates conduct in keeping with Floyd Medical Center's ethical standards. Errors may be serious and may involve injury to patient, staff or self. Works constantly with confidential information and must constantly make decisions concerning true emotional status of patients, i.e., ability to harm self others. Requires frequent contact with others to do job. Involves daily interactions with psychiatrist nurses, social services, occupational therapist and patient to provide appropriate services and programs to patient. Will also involve contact with family and outside agencies for patient care on a daily basis.