What are the responsibilities and job description for the Milieu Therapist I - Behavioral Health position at UPMC?
UPMC Chautauqua is hiring a Milieu Therapist to support the Inpatient Mental Health dept. This position offers four 10 hour day/evening shifts per week to include every other weekend and rotating holidays.
As a Milieu Therapist, you'll participate as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, in various aspects of patient care with an emphasis on therapeutic activities conducted with assigned individuals and groups.
No experience is required - this is ideal for a new graduate beginning their first role in the behavioral health field.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain competency requirements
- Learn and utilize up-to-date technology and practices in delivery of patient care.
- Attend a minimum of 1 unit based of Institute wide in-service yearly.
- Facilitate or co-facilitate psychoeducational and therapeutic activity groups effectively.
- Encourage or assist patients to perform activities of daily living.
- Accompany patients to out-of-building activities and appointments
- Document in the Medical Record according to established policies
- Manage crisis situations effectively using positive approaches.
- Demonstrate effective milieu management skills, which promote positive patient experiences.
- Maintain a safe and therapeutic environment.
- Provide clinical interventions assessed by client needs
- Coordinate patient groups and activities
- Participate in interdisciplinary meetings and other activities
- Maintain on-going communication with appropriate staff
- Perform assigned work in a timely and productive manner
- Completes 1:1 meetings with assigned patients to assess how they are currently doing
- Complete observations of patients as ordered, following all guidelines
Salary : $1,000 - $1,000,000