Primary Location:

Peace - Louisville

Address:

2020 Newburg Rd. Louisville, KY 40205

Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Job Description Summary:

UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.
With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.

Job Description:

This position is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing the operations of the inpatient social services department and assists the Director of Behavior Health Services with daily oversight of the inpatient social services team and activity/expressive team. The Manager is responsible for supervising the daily program operations, processing all patients who are admitted to the programs, ensuring that quality patient care is provided in a safe, effective manner according to established policies and procedures. This role is responsible for ensuring that standards of patient care are established and maintained in the respective areas. This includes managerial oversight of staffing and ensures compliance with state, federal, and other regulatory requirements to include The Joint Commission and Center for Medicaid/Medicare standards. This role may provide services to various patient populations including pediatrics, adolescents and adults. This role is also responsible for ensuring complete and accurate documentations of all services and providing daily supervision of all clinical staff

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates leadership in responding to hospital and community mental health needs; Adjusts processes to respond to organizational and patient needs.
• Acts as a resource and consults with program staff regarding patient care problems to assist in the resolution of challenging situations as they arise
• Acts as a patient advocate to ensure that each individual’s rights are maintained at all times by the program staff according to established policies & procedures
• Facilitates collaboration among various clinical and non-clinical disciplines, provides leadership and develops and manages implementation of program specific standards to ensure quality and safe delivery of care
• Assists with hiring by interviewing applicants, following personnel policies and procedures;  recommends the best suited candidate for selection to the Director of Behavioral Health Services
• Provides department employee orientation and training including telephone skills, computer skills and appropriate documentation of services
• Assists clinicians in the admission and discharge process, including providing case management and facilitating treatment planning sessions
• Consults with treatment team staff regarding patient care problems to resolve challenging situations as they arise and to enhance staff decision-making and performance
• Schedules staff effectively, taking into account, ADC and staffing patterns, along with coordinating PTO requests, and provides coverage for clinical staff, as needed; analyzes, coordinates and adjusts staffing to ensure effective utilization of labor in the department, without sacrificing the quality of services provided
• Conducts routine documentation audits, productivity reports, and communicates with referral source, family, payer source & physicians
• Demonstrates fiscal prudence and an understanding of budgetary considerations when making business decisions; effectively monitors and adequately justifies budget variances

Shift Requirements:

Shift Length (in hours):

8

# Shifts/Week:

5

Overtime Required:

☐ Infrequently     ☐ Sometimes    ☐ Often     ☒ n/a (exempt position)

Other Functions:

• Achieves excellence through teamwork by working with others to provide desired outcomes
• Conducts 30-60-90 and annual evaluations
• Assists Director by contributing information toward budget development, program review, documentation audits and/or performance improvement initiatives
• Accepts participation in special projects, other duties as assigned and appointments to hospital/local/regional committees, as appropriate
• Identifies and explores opportunities for expanding or improving current services
• Designs new ways to approach both team and organizational goals and implements improvements
• Assumes personal responsibility for maintaining professional develo