Mental Health Counselor II - Inpatient Psych

Advocate Health Care; Downers Grove (IL); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocate Health Care in Downers Grove seeks an experienced patient care assistant to facilitate therapeutic group activities, support the therapeutic milieu, orient patients to unit layout, and respond to patient requests.

You will work with the multidisciplinary team, synthesize assessment data to help plan care, document in IPOC, and use therapeutic communication to resolve conflicts and emergencies with the team.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates therapeutic group activities.
• Develops group cohesion and working phase using curative factors (installation of hope, universality, imparting information, development of socializing techniques, imitative behavior).
• Manages problem behaviors in group: anger, over & under participation, storytelling.
• Provides input into programming.
• Assists in development and maintenance of a therapeutic milieu and provides for a safe environment for all patients.
• Manages elements of the milieu (tone, pace, and level of activity). Takes action to eliminate or resolve triggers or the ensuing response.
• Responds to emergencies with team and demonstrates techniques needed to manage the violent patient.
• Maintains fall precautions.
• Orientates patient/families to room and unit, including physical layout of room and unit, call alarms, bed functions, TV usage and telephone.
• Responds to call alarm and communicates all patient requests to the RN in a timely manner.
• Serves as a member of the multidisciplinary treatment team by providing information regarding patient's behavior and responses to interventions.
• Functions as a member of the treatment team, communicating changes in patient’s behavior in a timely manner.
• Synthesizes assessment data collected to develop treatment plan with team.
• Assist in planning patient care and documents it in the IPOC.
• Utilizes therapeutic communication techniques during patient assessment and intervention, including admissions and discharges.
• Demonstrates adaptive communication styles based on individual patient needs. Uses confrontation & cognitive restructuring to problem-solve with pt. during working phase.

Job description

• Facilitates therapeutic group activities
• 1)Uses curative factors to develop group cohesion and working phase (installation of hope, universality, imparting information, development of socializing techniques, imitative behavior).
• 2)Manages problem behaviors in group: anger, over & under participation, storytelling.
• 3)Provides input into programming.
• Assists in the development and maintenance of a therapeutic milieu and provides for a safe environment for all patients.
• 1)Manages elements of the milieu (tone, pace, and level of activity). Takes action to eliminate or resolve triggers or the ensuing response.
• 2)Able to respond to emergencies with team and demonstrate techniques needed to manage the violent patient.
• 4)Maintains fall precautions.
• 5)Orientates patient/families to room and unit, including physical layout of room and unit, call alarms, bed functions, TV usage and telephone.
• 6)Responds to call alarm and communicates all patient requests to the RN in a timely manner.
• Serves as a member of the multidisciplinary treatment team by providing information regarding patient's behavior and responses to interventions.
• 1)Functions as a member of the treatment team, communicating changes in patient’s behavior in a timely manner.
• 2)Synthesizes assessment data collected to develop treatment plan with team.
• 3)Assist in planning patient care and documents it in the IPOC.
• Utilizes therapeutic communication techniques during patient assessment and intervention, including admissions and discharges.
• 1)Demonstrates adaptive communication styles based on individual patient needs. Uses confrontation & cognitive restructuring to problem-solve with pt. during working phase. Demonstrates beginning