Behavioral Counselor - IOP

Description

JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION: Performs professional and social work to facilitate the movement of patients through the continuum of care while ensuring their biopsychosocial needs are met as appropriate for the age and clinical population served, as defined in the department's scope of service.

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

CRITERIA A: Everyday Excellence Values - Employee demonstrates Everyday Excellence values in the day-to-day performance of their job.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
•Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community.
•Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.
•Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.
•Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.
•Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.
•Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers.

CRITERIA B: Corporate Compliance - Employee demonstrates commitment to the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest Guidelines, and the GHS Corporate Compliance Guidelines.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
•Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.
•Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.
•Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.

CRITERIA C: Personal Achievement - Employee demonstrates initiative in achieving work goals and meeting personal objectives.

•Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.
•Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.
•Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.

CRITERIA D: Performance Improvement - Employee actively participates in Performance Improvement activities and incorporates quality improvement standards in his/her job performance.

•Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
•Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.
•Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.
•Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.

CRITERIA E: Cost Management - Employee demonstrates effective cost management practices.

•Effectively manages time and resources
•Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization - material, human, and financial.
•Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes.

CRITERIA F: Patient & Employee Safety - Employee actively participates in and demonstrates effective patient and employee safety practices.

•Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
•Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.
•Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.
•Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans.
•Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes

JOB FUNCTIONS

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS include, but are not limited to:

1. Provides assessment and subsequent interventions to patients and their families.

•Develops accurate comprehensive psychosocial assessments, and examines current problems and relevant bio-psychosocial and environmental factors, within the mandated time frames.
•Communicate aspects of the assessment to members of the health care team, patient and significant others, ensuring that information is always current.
•Demonstrates an ability to assess suspected or actual abuse and neglect cases and follows current state and hospital policies on reporting such cases.
•Identifies potential suicidal and/or homicidal risks with patients; utilizes established methods and interventions as appropriate to address, and follows reporting regulations.
•Arranges and facilitates group therapies, individual therapy and family sessions as ordered by the psychiatrist.
•Monitors and assesses ongoing issues referring to patients and their families. Communicates and documents same and updates treatment planning as needed.
•Effectively participates as an interdisciplinary team member in developing the plan of care as appropriate.
•Communicates verbally with tact and sensitivity toward the patients and their families.
•Encourages patient to participate in decision making and assists in patient/family education as needed, to aid in communication and input in the treatment plan.
•Monitors appropriateness of length of stay and documents accurately the medical necessity for continued stay.
•Works with other team members to improve patient outcomes.

2. Facilitates the movement of patients through the continuum of care by the discharge planning process.

•Initiates discharge plans, communicates and collaborates with other healthcare professionals, and updates discharge plans following department policy guidelines.
•Coordinates community resources and referral sources to achieve optimum results.
•Conducts group sessions, family and individual as per program schedule or indicated.

4. Performs all other duties as assigned.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
Twenty-four (24) months recent and relevant experience.

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Masters Degree in Counseling or Psychology

SPECIAL SKILL, LICENSE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
Current LPC, LAC, LMFT licensure, or PLPC and current CPR certification.

HIPAA REQUIREMENTS:
Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Medical records without limitation both paper and electronic, patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient information related to surgery or appointment schedules, information related to patient location, religious beliefs and/or public health records.

SAFETY REQUIREMENTS:
Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable safety practices appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps and linen, PPE, exposure control plans, hand washing, environment of care, patient identification, validates, transports, monitors or observes patients, and monitors clinical alarms.