Behavioral Program Director

Job description

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The primary role of the Facility Behavioral Health Director is to coordinate, supervise, and facilitate the delivery of the facility’s Behavioral Health Program (BHP) and related services to residents of a skilled nursing facility with behavioral symptoms and conditions.

Responsibilities :

• Coordination and oversight of operations and schedules of a highly structured Behavioral Health Program.
• Monitoring and ensuring the consistency of a therapeutic and safe program environment, periodic and as needed assessment of the behavioral and psychosocial needs of, and benefits from program participation achieved by program-engaged residents.
• Ensuring that staff who provide care and services to residents participating in the Behavioral Health Program have had access to sufficient orientation and training to effectively manage behavioral symptoms.
• Designing and implementing program functions, developing behavioral program schedules.
• Scheduling, conducting, and / or coordinating multiple weekly psychoeducational groups for program participants.
• Ensuring that significant behaviorally related assessment and intervention information regarding program participants is forwarded to the interdisciplinary treatment team, the participant’s treatment plan, and clinical record. Coordination and oversight of a weekly interdisciplinary behavioral rounds forum.
• Liaison with contracted mental health practitioners.
• Collaborating with the facility administration and appropriate department managers regarding resources, activities, and schedules essential to the operations of the behavioral health program.
• Revising program schedules in order to best meet the collective needs of the behavioral health program participants.
• Responding to clinical emergencies, to assist with regulatory agency visits, surveys, and issues outside of normal work hours as needed.
• Collaborating with BHP participating residents and the interdisciplinary treatment team in developing a Recovery-based plan of care and services for those residents.
• Collaborating with the facility Staff Development Coordinator and Administrator to provide required and as necessary staff training in Behavioral Management.
• Participating in the clinical evaluation and screening of potential admissions to the Behavioral Health Program.
• Collaborating with the facility interdisciplinary treatment team in accessing information regarding, and as appropriate making referrals to, community-based services for residents who wish to access such services.
• Actively participating in identifying new referral sources and helping to maintain current referral sources.
• Actively participating in developing and implementing new behavioral and psychosocial service programs and the presentation of such programs to physicians, family members, and residents.

Qualifications :

Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW), preferred.

Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or related human services field, required.

Minimum of 4 years of experience in providing direct professional services to persons with mental health or behavioral conditions in an interdisciplinary treatment setting.

Compensation & Benefits :

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