Behavioral Health Therapist - Community Behavioral Health 6 West

Certifications:

• Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Training within 3 months - Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI)Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI),
• Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position. Upon Hire

Education: Master's Degree: Social Work, Counseling, Psychology.

Other Requirements

Required English Skills Advanced reading skills Advanced writing skills Advanced oral skills Communication Skills Ability to respond appropriately to customer/co-worker Interaction with a wide variety of people Maintain confidential information Ability to communicate only the facts to recipients or to decline to reveal information Ability to project a professional, friendly, helpful demeanor Computer Skills Basic computer knowledge: Uses word processing, spreadsheet, e-mail application, and web browser. Comfortable within a Windows OS and learning new applications.

Provides individual and group therapy/counseling to assist patients in achieving treatment goals

• Provides individual therapy/counseling to assigned patients as stipulated on their treatment plans
• Provides support, sets limits, and/or facilitates learning from the situation when providing situational interventions with patients (individual/group therapy sessions and situations involving milieu management)
• Facilitates a minimum of one regularly scheduled group process-oriented therapy session/day
• Interventions reflect a knowledge of appropriate behaviors related to specific population (age, diagnosis, etc.)
• Group facilitation reflects expertise in group dynamics
• Utilizes Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and other brief therapies
• Provides leadership to content of group as it relates to individual patient needs and current milieu
• Documentation is timely, succinct, legible, uses the DAIR format and reflects impairments, interventions and progress towards treatment goals as established in the individual patient's treatment plan
• Employs CPI methods when assisting as a team member to control an aggressive or violent patient

Completes initial and ongoing assessments of patients

• Thoroughly completes Initial Assessment (except nursing components) and completes admission note in Integrated Progress Notes
• Documentation is timely, legible and succinct and includes initial clinical impressions of the patient and recommendation for treatment components
• Assists in obtaining collateral information from family, significant others if they are present at time of admission
• Patient is ongoing assessed during informal sessions as well as during formal individual and group therapy sessions
• Documentation of ongoing assessments/individual therapy sessions reflects progress towards goals outlined in treatment plan

Collaborates with other members of the treatment team in the development and implementation of an individualized treatment plan and assists in the Behavioral Health Clinician's absence.

• Completes, reviews and updates treatment plans on assigned patients
• Participates in or provides input for interdisciplinary clinical staffings as well as community, return to work, discharge, and school staffings
• Participation reflects knowledge of the patient's strengths, illness, support systems, and history
• Proactively meets with other members of the treatment team on a daily basis to assist in the coordination of care and discharge planning
• Collaborates with Behavioral Health Clinician, especially in matters related to family issues and addresses family issues as they impact the patient
• Assists the Behavioral Health Clinician in the absence of another BHC; assisting in guardianship issues, filing petitions/certificates with the court, discharge planning and providing support/intervention with patients' families as necessary
• 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
• Makes necessary phone calls to child and elderly welfare agencies to report abuse and/or neglect

Serves as a resource in the creation and maintenance of a therapeutic milieu so the unit is a safe, caring, nurturing, healing and educational environment.

• Ensures patient/staff safety by following policy/procedures, adhering to national patient safety goals; sets behavioral limits for patients according to unit policies and individual treatment plans
• Completes event reports for any adverse outcomes
• Assists patients in conflict resolution
• Models behavior and serves as a resource in de-escalating patients utilizing CPI techniques
• Generates ideas for improving processes, treatment and patient care
• Communicates milieu and programming needs/suggestions to clinical supervisor and nurse manager

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Discover the job, the career, the purpose you were meant for. The supportive and inclusive team where you can thrive. The place where growth meets balance - and opportunities meet flexibility. Find it all at Carle Health.

Based in Urbana, IL, Carle Health is a healthcare system with nearly 16,600 team members in its eight hospitals, physician groups and a variety of healthcare businesses. Carle BroMenn Medical Center, Carle Foundation Hospital, Carle Health Methodist Hospital, Carle Health Proctor Hospital, Carle Health Pekin Hospital, and Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center hold Magnet designations, the nation's highest honor for nursing care. The system includes Methodist College and Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the world's first engineering-based medical school, and Health Alliance. We offer opportunities in several communities throughout central Illinois with potential for growth and life-long careers at Carle Health.

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