Lead Clinical Therapy (LIMHP) - Inpatient - part time

Now hiring for the region's first-of-its-kind Behavioral Health & Wellness Center. A place where innovation meets compassion. Positions are anticipated to start in October of 2025.  

Schedule: 1-12 hour shift, 7a-7:30p Wednesdays 

At Children’s Nebraska, our mission is to improve the life of every child through exceptional care, advocacy, research and education. As the state’s only full-service pediatric healthcare center, we provide comprehensive, holistic care to our patients and families—from primary and specialty care to behavioral health services and everything in between. Dedicated to a People First culture, we foster an environment with joy, belonging, wellbeing, learning and growth. Turn your passion into purpose and make a difference where it matters most.

A Brief Overview
Performs a variety of clinical lead functions including leading and coordinating the daily clinical operational activities of the unit.  Ensures the delivery of quality patient care by holding staff accountable to established patient care and regulatory standards. Interprets policies and procedure to clinical and paraprofessional staff and patients/families.  Builds, maintains, and supports a culture that fosters effective working relationships within a safe working environment. Supports the unit by providing quality psychotherapy and education to children and families and conducts clinical assessments when needed. Diagnose and treat patients independently. Establishes and maintains professional working relationships with hospital staff, physicians, community agencies, and professionals. Provides professional presentations, interviews and services that enhance the organization's visibility and reputation in the community.

Essential Functions

• CLINICAL OPERATIONS- Leads the daily clinical operational activities of the unit to ensure that quality care is delivered efficiently to include: • Managing patient flow in coordination with other leads, supervisors and team members • Overseeing the delivery of patient care and coordinating admissions, discharges, transfers and responding to unforeseen events adjusting patient assignments, as needed. • Effectively problem solves to maximize resources to maintain patient flow, quality patient care and open communication between healthcare team members/departments • Ensures clinical documentation is completed in a timely manner • Follows up with team members floating to other areas at least once during the shift. Ensures staff floating into unit are supported clinically, introduced/welcomed as part of the team, and assigned a buddy. • Works collaboratively with leadership in meeting staffing challenges, taking accountability for impact of staffing decisions in own unit. • Ensures that staff has the supplies, equipment, information, and resources needed to provide quality patient care in a safe work environment. • Provides effective training on skills and changes within the industry to new and current employees • Remains current on skills and training. Serve as a clinical expert. • Plays integral role in planning for current and future clinical needs and resources
• COMMUNICATION- Maintains an environment of trust, fairness, consistency, and confidentiality with team members and with internal and external customers. • Listens and seeks clarification through the rounding process. Completes rounding and uses findings to develop solutions to identified issues within scope of accountability. • Represents needs and interests of direct reports to all levels of the leadership structure. Communicates effectively orally and in writing. • Takes the imitative to communicate proactively and follows up on issues.
• QUALITY, COMPLIANCE, and SAFETY- Supports the delivery of quality patient care by role modeling best practices and providing guidance to staff ensure the practice to established patient care and regulatory standards. Interprets policies and procedure to nursing staff and patients/families. • Makes changes in clinical assignments based on patient care needs and demonstrated staff competencies. • Promotes a safe, therapeutic, customer-friendly environment. Responds promptly to patient, family and staff concerns seeking to bring issues to resolution. Provides feedback to patient care team regarding issues. • Demonstrates clinical knowledge needed to coach staff on day-to-day activities. Pursues continuous learning to gain additional knowledge in area of clinical specialty. • Interacts effectively with members of the health care team to monitor and achieve quality patient outcomes. • Exercises problem solving skills to optimize patient flow while maintaining quality patient care. Collaborates with healthcare team regarding bed management to ensure appropriate patient placement based on clinical needs. Outpatient/procedural: Measures and contributes to improvement in