Outpatient Primary Therapist II

Department:

36608 Floyd Behavioral Health Services - Behavioral Health O/P: Adult Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Monday-Friday, 8a-4:30p, No major holidays or weekends

Pay Range

$28.05 - $42.10

Major Responsibilities:

Coordinates Patient Care 

• Facilitates group therapy and develops programming and therapeutic treatment for identified patients. 

• Supervises patients during program hours. Monitors hallways, patients going to restroom, etc. Monitors patients during meal times and break times. 

• Establishes and maintains positive relationships with patients, physicians, allied health professionals and all referral sources. Plans and facilitates psycho educational groups. 

• Co-facilitates group therapy, treatment issues and expressive therapy with therapists. Assists in facilitating adult groups when needed. 

• Works cooperatively with Program Manager in program development. Assists in meal preparation and service with patients. 

• Supervises patients as they enter and leave facility and get on and off transportation vans. 

Completes Documentation 

• Completes appropriate documentation for treatment plans, progress notes, weekly updates and group notes in specified time limits. Documents calls and related information on designated forms. 

• Participates in discharge planning and referral contacts and verifies follow through and documentation of discharge plans. Checks and audits charts for documentation and charge errors. 

• Assists interns with documentation as needed. 

• Assists in taking daily attendance of program patients and calls parents or guardians if patients are absent and documents in the clinical record. 

Communicates with Staff Nurse and Physicians 

• Communicates treatment issues and medication concerns to Nurses and Physicians daily. 

• Participates in treatment teams with coworkers and helps write treatment plan reviews in conjunction with treatment team members. Attends staff meetings as needed. 

• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with supervisors and coworkers. Performs other duties needed to maintain safe and therapeutic clinical environment. 

• Assists in time-out supervision with patients as needed and provides one-on-one interventions with patients to de-escalate behaviors in time-out. 

• Performs therapeutic holds on patients as needed. Attends debriefings on patients as needed. 

• Works constantly with confidential information and must constantly make decisions concerning true emotional status of patients, i.e., ability to harm self and others. 

• Interacts daily with psychiatrist nurses, social services, occupational therapists and patients to provide appropriate services and programs to patients.

• Interacts with family and outside agencies for patient care on a daily basis. 

Organizational and Professional Development 

• Stays abreast of organization’s programs and services. 

• Complies with facility safety, infection control and security program. Attends in-service programs as mandated per policy. 

• Manages resources responsibly. 

• Maintains a clean and neat physical environment in compliance with infection prevention standards. Seeks and identifies opportunities to improve care, patient flow or utilization of resources. 

• Participates in process improvement initiatives for the department and facility as directed. Participates in the orientation and supervision of new employees and students. 

• Assists in orienting new staff. 

• Participates in training and development activities to enhance own knowledge and skills. Completes required facility and departmental continuing education. 

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

• Licensed by the state of Georgia (LPC, LCSW, LMSW, LMFT) 

Education Required:

• Master's degree in counseling or related field from an accredited institute 

Experience Required:

• At least 1 year related experience 

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye-ha