Job Description
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Provides individual support and group facilitation on the adult inpatient psychiatric unit, focusing on introducing and strengthening patient coping skills, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and personal growth. Attends treatment team to contribute observations to development of plan. Works with unit director on program development, staff development and education, and achieving regulatory expectations.Job Description:
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborates with members of the multidisciplinary treatment team to ensure appropriateness of patient’s treatment goals and plans.
- Provides ongoing treatment as outlined by treatment team via groups and 1:1 interventions.
- Consults with charge nurse regarding any significant changes in a patient’s status
- Provides timely and accurate documentation to patient chart via weekly and group notes.
- Monitors supplies and complete order forms as needed.
- Completes daily group assignments to provide most therapeutic interventions
- Keeps group protocols up to date
- Maintains organization, safety and cleanliness of group area
- Maintains AVADE and BLS education
- Participates in ongoing clinical education to ensure competency and currency specific to Psychiatry/Psychology
- Provides education and supervision for staff regarding group leadership competency, sensory interventions, and other alternative treatment options
- Follows The Joint Commission safety goals
- Human Rights Officer- ensure patients understand and can exercise their legal and human rights, investigate and resolve complaints on their behalf, and serve as their advocate within the unit, per Massachusetts Department of Mental Health regulations
- Completes other duties as assigned
LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES
At times and when directed, may provide guidance and support to others while acting as a resource, trainer and/or preceptor.
Staff Education and Development
Provides ongoing education and supervision for group leadership, and overall staff education and development. Introduces
and educates on new treatment options. Collaborates with unit director on the appraisals, contributing observations from
group leadership level of skill and needs.
JOB REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable the individual to perform the essential functions.
Communications
Must possess verbal and written skills to communicate effectively and courteously with a diverse group of professional and non-professional members of the health care team, patients and family/significant others.
Minimum Education
BS in related field or related life experience, training in substance abuse care is very valuable.
Minimum Work Experience
• Must be skilled in group facilitation.
• Familiarity with sensory interventions, DBT and CBT
FUNCTIONAL DEMANDS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Some stooping and/or lifting, standing, walking and ability to perform both gross and fine motor coordination. Hearing/Vision
to be within normal limits.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
An acute inpatient psychiatric unit with patients of varying ages and diagnosis. The unit is multidisciplinary with a fast paced
and high stress environment.
AGE-SPECIFIC CRITERIA
• Patient care provider
PATIENT CARE PROVIDED FOR
• Adolescent (Some)
• Adult
• Geriatric (Some)
Pay Range:
$23.15 - $31.16The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123 bed community hospital serving 17 cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley . The hospital offers a wide range of acute care services to meet the needs of our growing patient population including inpatient and outpatient surgery in fully digitized computerized operating room suites, cardiology including echocardiography and a cardiac cath lab, comprehensive cancer services, orthopedics, nuclear medicine, laboratory, noninvasive vascular lab, joint replacement program and birth center.
Programs include the number one wound center in the nation, a primary stroke service, and Level III Trauma Center . Diagnostic imaging services for patients include MRI, CT, PET, and the PACS digital x-ray system. In addition, we are one of only three healthcare communities to be selected for the pilot Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative. Due to the dedication of our physicians, we are one of the first communities in Massachusetts to implement electronic health records, system-wide, for the safety of our patients.
Awards
The hospitals Non Invasive Vascular laboratory was accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL).
For the second year in a row, the American Association for Respiratory Care awarded the hospital its Quality Respiratory Care Recognition. The hospital had no ventilator acquired pneumonia cases during the last year.
The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center is the only such center to receive full accreditation from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) in Massachusetts .
The hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission, an organization that surveys and rates the performance of hospitals at least every three years. The Joint Commission Dedicated, good employees are one of your strengths. You have a lot to be proud of.
