What are the responsibilities and job description for the Behavioral Aide Summer Day Tx position at AltaPointe Health?
Overview
Children's Outpatient Services provides treatment for children and adolescents and their families and is intended to improve and maintain a child’s or an adolescent’s stability in the community. Treatment focuses on problem resolution, symptom reduction, stabilization and/or prevention of movement to a higher level of care. Services include individual, family and group therapy, medication evaluation and management, case management, in home intervention, case consultation and summer day treatment services. The type of treatment is highly variable and depends upon the individual’s existing symptoms and developmental level.
Responsibilities
General Responsibilities:
Supervision and Consultation:
Clinical Record Keeping:
Courteous and respectful attitudes towards consumers, visitors and co-workers:
Administrative and Other Related Duties as Assigned:
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
High school graduate or equivalent.
Basic general knowledge in child/adolescent specialties, outlined below, to be attained within (2) two weeks of employment:
- Knowledge of psychiatric disorders in child/adolescent populations
- Basic knowledge of growth and development of child/adolescent patients as related to all intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and physical aspects patient development
- Basic knowledge of behavior management and parenting issues
- Knowledge of cultural diversity
- Knowledge of behavior management, crisis intervention and interventions common to acute psychotic patients, as well as, to non-violent crisis intervention practices.
- Knowledge of educational methods appropriate to child/adolescent psychiatric disorders
