| Location | AZ |
Position Summary: Provides crisis intervention expertise and counseling directly to patients during evening and weekend/holiday hours by performing the following duties personally. Responsible for ensuringthat all critical tasks are fulfilled on a timely basis.
Critical Tasks:
Maintains exclusive focus upon patients, the quality of their condition and care, and their individual needs without significant distraction by administrative and non-patient contact activities.
Complies fully with all patient medical records and information privacy regulations, state and federal.
Takes all steps necessary to fully ensure employee patient and medical data confidentiality and security.
Ensures that patients receiving care are well cared for according to state and federal regulations as well as contemporary behavioral health practices.
Provides crisis intervention services directly to patients and residents while ensuring that repetitive crises on individual bases are prevented.
Utilizes professional expertise to prevent negative outcomes such as violence, anti-social behavior, suicide and self-victimizing trauma, and develops patient/family/ community safety plans.
Evaluates and accurately documents patient condition, and continually adjusts response methodologies accordingly.
Maintains exceptional working relationships with various internal behavioral health experts and external behavioral health resources.
Determines if acute psychiatric care is necessary and gains facility admission on a rapid basis when patient conditions and risks warrant it.
Takes all actions necessary to ensure that all behavioral and medical care is fully coordinated in a best practice manner while creating and ensuring healthy behavioral and medical outcomes.
Documents all pertinent and required patient information and data completely, accurately, and rapidly on a verbal, written and/or electronic basis frequently within multiple record-keeping and reporting systems.
Consults with other members of the medical, behavioral health and EMS teams to ensure that patient needs are met and for the purpose of arranging other appropriate interventions.
Ensures that all appropriate entities such as schools, facilities, businesses, law enforcement agencies, and other governmental authorities are notified in specific patient cases when warranted for safety and/or patient care reasons.
Communicates thoroughly and clearly with all members of patient care and treatment teams.
Assesses patients and residents for referral to external treatment resources and makes appropriate referrals.
Helps patient and family through individual or group discussions to ensure that patients/residents understand, accept, and follow behavioral and medical recommendations.
Facilitates discharge planning while notifying all appropriate authorities and agencies of risk situations, such as Adult Protective Services, Child Protective Services, law enforcement, etc.
Maintains consistent email and phone communication with leadership, including communications that
may occur outside of scheduled work hours.
At times, evaluates inmates at the Department of Rehabilitation and Supervision for safety and suicide
precautions during incarceration.
Demonstrates ability to regularly change priorities to accomplish all tasks despite frequent interruptions.
Demonstrates ability to clearly communicate, both orally and in writing, while performing all essential functions.
Performs other special projects and duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
Master's Degree in Social Work, Counseling or related eld.
Associate Licensure in good standing with the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners required
(LAC, LASAC, LMSW, LAMFT), Independent Licensure preferred (LPC, LIAC, LCSW, LMFT).
Experience with the Native American population preferred.
Arizona Department of Public Safety Level 1 Fingerprint Clearance Card required
Current and continuing CPR/FA and/or BLS training and certication required
State of Arizona driver's license with no signicant violations during the last 5 years
Demonstrates ability to relate to diverse cultures and specically the Gila River Community and/or other Native American cultures and community health services.