What are the responsibilities and job description for the Adolescent Day Treatment Qualified Professional position at Rockwell Development Center?
Rockwell Development Center is looking to hire a Full Time Qualified Professional for our Adolescent Day Treatment Program in Newton, NC.
Purpose of Position:
Performs therapeutic interventions in the school and community settings with the identified youth and their families for the purpose to reduce symptoms, improve behavioral functioning, increase the individual’s ability to cope with and relate to others, promote recovery, and enhance the beneficiary’s capacity to function in an educational setting, or to be maintained in community based services
Educational/Experience Qualifications:
Purpose of Position:
Performs therapeutic interventions in the school and community settings with the identified youth and their families for the purpose to reduce symptoms, improve behavioral functioning, increase the individual’s ability to cope with and relate to others, promote recovery, and enhance the beneficiary’s capacity to function in an educational setting, or to be maintained in community based services
Educational/Experience Qualifications:
- Completion of Bachelor’s Degree in a Human Service field with 2 years of post-Bachelors experience with Mental Health population. Meets requirements under 10A NCAC 27G.0104 as a Qualified Professional for Mental Health – AND – a minimum two (2) years documented experience with children, adolescents, and families. Excellent organizational, verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Dependable/Reliable and able to maintain a flexible work schedule
- Computer literate
- Professional insight and judgment associated with confidentiality and the needs of consumers
- Understanding of client rights, coupled with an ability to advocate for clients
- Understanding of liability and risk management
- Competency in core skills including technical knowledge, cultural awareness, analytical skills, decision making, interpersonal skills, communication skills, clinical skills, and deescalating techniques
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide direct services through school based interventions to support family preservation, meeting educational goals, and maintaining appropriate role functioning in community setting as outlined in the Child and Adolescent Day Treatment service definition.
- Develop individualized Person Centered Plans and facilitate Child and Family Team meetings. Perform ongoing assessment and evaluation of the social and daily living needs of clients to ensure seamless transition from this enhanced service to the next medically necessary service.
- The QP will also provide psychoeducation of mental health and substance use needs to the client, their family, school, and other stakeholders.
- Provide direct client care to include interventions, activities, and supervision of clients
- Provide crisis intervention
- Provide behavioral updates and progress reports on clients weekly and/or PRN to Licensed Professional (LP), Qualified Professional (QP), Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Executive Director (ED), Clinical Care Manager (CCM), Operations Manager (OM), Qualified Professional (QP), members of the treatment team, and Legally Responsible Person (LRP) keeping them abreast of client’s progress or lack of progress
- Orientate new consumers to the facility: introduction to other consumers, review of daily expectations, review of RDC behavior/privileging systems, etc.
- Be knowledgeable and current on consumer incidents and issues
- Participate in all Child and Family Team Meetings (CFTM), as needed
- Implement CFTM recommendations
- Ensure daily reading logs, behavior points, journaling, goals, groups, and activities are completed
- Participate in Psychiatric appointments as needed with updated clinical information and client behaviors
Documentation
- Documentation of service notes, contact notes, incident reports, search and seizure forms, MARs, etc. according to all rules and regulations; report discrepancies to CM
- Ensuring all documentation has been completed by staff that is required
- Reviewing incident reports for accuracy and content prior to submitting to CM
- Ensuring all level 2 incident reports have been completed within the 72 hour required time frame, including emailing narrative to ED, CCM, and QP.
- Ensure the PCP Goal Sheet matches the PCP goals
- Ensure daily schedule book is complete and accurate with activities scheduled, directions clear and materials available on site along with therapeutic groups scheduled with clear instructions and materials available on site every Monday for staff
- Ensure activities are planned 2-3 weeks in advance and posted in the facility for clients to be aware of upcoming activities
- Submit activity request forms 2-3 weeks prior to activity is scheduled for approval
- Document monthly supervision of Para-professional and Associate Professional staff
Medications:
- Notify CM of any medication errors or problems
- Notify CM, as soon as possible, if a client’s MAR and/or Count Sheet is inaccurate
- Monitor the supply of prescription medications and ensure all prescription medications are on site and available for clients
- Monitor and ensure all PRN medications are available
- Sign and ensure 2 signatures have signed new monthly MARs.
- Ensure new monthly MARs are placed in binders before the 1st of each month
- Ensure all staff has signed the back of the MARs before giving medications
Administration
- Monitor all applicable web sites to keep abreast of changes affecting RDC. Such sites include Division of Mental Health, Medicaid, Value Options, LMEs, Office of Inspector General, Healthcare Registry, Division of Health Service Regulations, COA, Health Department, etc.
- Maintain sites in compliance in all areas including, but not limited to, staffing ratios, health department guidelines, safety requirements, and state and federal regulations,
- Be knowledgeable and aware of the Federal Deficit Reduction Act and report any known occurrences of fraud, waste, and abuse to ED or posted OIG compliance reporting hotline
- Keep consumer quality of care a priority, checking health and safety and intervening before crisis occurs and alerting supervisor and CEO of any potential health or safety concerns.
- Maintain an accurate timesheet
- Attend weekly clinical meetings with CCM
- Remain current on emails, online documents, online calendar, etc.
- Orientate new staff of the clinical program, train new staff on service notes and documentation.
- Assist staff with evaluating clinical progress of clients
- Monitor employees for compliance with RDC’s program, policies, and procedures; Local Management Entities (LME) rules and regulations; DHHS rules, regulations, and statutes; and Federal rules, regulations, and statutes;
- Complete monthly supervision of para professional staff
- Organize and Transport as needed
- Complete other assignments and tasks as directed by the CEO, HR, and CM
Salary : $40,000
