Responsibilities:

• Plans and organizes group programming, including but not limited gross motor, psycho-educational and recreational groups focused on patients’ individual and collective needs under the supervision of the Therapeutic Program Coordinator.
• Provide a caring, warm environment for patients through setting clear boundaries, supporting, encouraging, and comfortably interacting to help build self-esteem, age appropriate interpersonal skills, positive thinking, problem solving, social cues and language, coping skills, respect for others and self.
• Work collaboratively with interdisciplinary treatment team by contributing clinical information and observations about patients.
• Communicates in a non-judgmental manner, uses effective listening techniques and demonstrates abilities to acknowledge and reflects back to the speaker, paraphrase, and use open-ended questions.
• Documents and describes patient behavior, interventions and patients response to interventions in Epic.

Education:

• Bachelor Degree in Humanities; such as,   Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Child Development. 

Certifications:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA).
• NAPPI (completion within the New Hire Period).

Complexity of Work:

• Demonstrates knowledge of lifespan development, abnormal psychology, therapeutic process, growth and development, behavioral management and therapeutic relationships.
• Relate professionally, ethically, and compassionately to patients, families and staff.
• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.

Work Experience:

• Previous mental health experience strongly preferred;
• Experience in group facilitation strongly preferred.
• Maintains general knowledge of CBT, DBT, and trauma informed care and related interventions.

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patient, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires standing and walking for extended periods of time.
• Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
• Requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours.
• Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.
• Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.