River Vista Behavioral Health sits along the bluffs overlooking the San Joaquin River, this brand new, 128-bed facility, will provide high-quality and advanced behavioral health services to residents and visitors in the Central Valley. The new hospital will employ more than 250 people, including clinicians, nurses, mental health technicians, support staff and administration.

• Prepares and monitors ongoing department staffing and schedules to meet department specific requirements and ensures proper coverage is maintained either by covering additional shifts or contacting team members to cover unanticipated staffing shortages.
• Prepares and reports daily to the Clinical Operations meeting all admissions within the prior 24 hours.
• Responsible for verification of all staff time sheets, obtaining employee signatures and forwarding time sheets to payroll in a timely manner.
• Review of all shift admissions to ensure appropriate authorizations have been obtained.
• Prepare Performance Improvement and Department end of month reports based on data collect of specified criteria by Administration and the Performance Improvement Council. Responsible for consistent and timely audits of COBRA logs and ensuring all collected data is reported monthly.
• Assure adequate orientation for new employees of the Assessment and Referral Department.
• Ensure an adequate system of communication and reporting is maintained between all staff members, as well as other departments involved in the ongoing operation of the program.

• Participate in screening patients for admission into hospital programs, utilizing pre-approved admissions criteria.
• Provide assessments of incoming patient’s mental health/psychiatric condition patients through various methods.
• Prepare written reports of assessment results and prepares recommendations for the level of care and treatment needs.

• Evaluate patients’ needs and advocate the lowest level of care consistent with the defined patient needs.
• Interface with the facility staff that will provide the appropriate level of care, to ensure a smooth transition for the patient.
• Promote an effective use of resources for patients, customers and the facility with sensitivity to cost of health care.
• Observe patient to detect behavioral patterns and report observations to medical staff.
• Assist with completing initial admissions forms for patients as required.
• Intervene to restrain violent or potentially violent or suicidal patients by verbal or physical means as required.
• Contact patient’s relatives by phone to arrange family conferences as required in a timely fashion.
• Begin patient/family education at time of admission.
• Provide information about the patient to the program staff who will be receiving the patient.

• Maintain knowledge of the Adolescent Program rules, protocols and handbooks guidelines.
• Assess patients for behaviors consistent with the developmental stages and makes note of any deviations in behavior.
• Recognize acting out behavior of adolescent specific age group and set appropriate limits in clear, concise, behavioral and non-judgmental terms based on the age of the patient.
• Demonstrate an awareness of learning disabilities and translate treatment/program expectations to the learning disabled adolescent.
• Relate to adolescent patients in an age appropriate manner.
• Utilize seclusion and restraint procedures with an understanding of the need for modification in regard to smaller body sizes of adolescents, abandonment issues and the history of physical and/or sexual abuse issue.
• Act as a resource to other staff in regard to the Adolescent Patient Programs.

• Gather information from the patient, family and interdisciplinary team and use judgments based on knowledge of adult behaviors in treatment planning and interventions.
• Recognize behaviors and set appropriate limits in clear, concise, behaviors and non-judgmental terms.
• Utilize seclusion/restraint procedures applicable to adult body size and past history of violent or emotional behaviors.
• Maintain current knowledge of the Adult Program rules, protocols and handbook guidelines.
• Utilize theoretical concepts to guide the effective practice of adult care within Specific Standards of Care for this age group.

• Maintain knowledge of the developmental tasks and sociological theories of aging.
• Utilize theoretical concepts to guide the effective practice of gerontological health care and behavioral care.
• Gather the appropriate information from the patient, family and interdisciplinary team and use therapeutic judgments based on knowledge of gerontological health/behavioral care practices to develop a comprehensive plan of care.
• Utilize interventions based on gerontological theory to restore patient’s functional capabilities and to prevent complications and excess disability.
• Maintain a complete knowledge of treatments, medications and side effects of such in the geriatric age group.

• Assesses patient needs as related to chemical dependency and document the plan of care from the admission through discharge.
• Collaborate with other chemical dependency staff professionals in planning for discharge and follow-up care.
• Maintain an awareness of how personal issues relating the co-dependency can impact work performance/relationships.
• Recognize and establish limits on medication-seeking behaviors.

Additional Standards

• Adhere to facility, department, corporate, personnel and standard policies and procedures.
• Attend all mandatory facility in-services and staff development activities as scheduled.
• Adhere to facility standards concerning conduct, dress, attendance and punctuality.
• Support facility-wide quality/performance improvement goals and objectives.
• Maintain confidentiality of facility employees and patient information.

PHYSICAL, MENTAL, AND SPECIAL DEMANDS

THIS SECTION DESCRIBES HOW AN EMPLOYEE IN THIS POSITION CURRENTLY PERFORMS THE FUNCTIONS OF THIS POSITION. MODIFICATIONS TO THE MANNER IN WHICH THIS JOB MAY BE PERFORMED WILL BE REVIEWED ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.

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  Ability to stand or walk up to six hours, sit for up to two hours.
• Ability to spend 20% of the workday outdoors in temperatures varying from 30° F. to 100° F. and 80% of the workday indoors in temperatures varying form 60° F. to 85° F.
• Ability to occasionally push/pull wheeled carts from 200 lbs. (i.e. crash carts, patient on stretchers or in wheelchairs).
• Ability to frequently lift and carry up to 10 pounds; occasionally lift and carry up to 100 pounds.
• Ability to see well enough to read written materials.
• Ability to discern a variety of odors.
• Ability to handle hazardous/infectious waste on an occasional basis.
• Ability to work in an environment where the noise level is frequently high; where chemicals are frequently used in cleaning; where mechanical and electrical hazards may occasionally be present; and where dust, mist and steam are frequently generated in housekeeping tasks.
• Ability to respond to exposure to blood and body fluids.

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