Activities Coordinator

SUMMARY

Under the direction of the Clinical Nurse Manager and Unit Charge RN, the Activities Coordinator is responsible for providing structured activities and facilitating unit programming to support the care and safety of children and adolescents as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team. The Activities Coordinator is responsible for input into the formulation of the day‑to‑day schedule and structure of a therapeutic milieu and the implementation, observation, and documentation of this program under the direction of a Registered Nurse.

Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another. All employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include:

• Instill Trust and Value Differences
• Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate
• RESPONSIBILITIES

• As a member of a multidisciplinary team, assess developmental, psychosocial, and intellectual needs of pediatric patients to plan, organize and direct a therapeutic program that will help to alleviate some of the stress associated with illness and hospitalization as well as to promote the child’s social, emotional, and intellectual growth.
• Function independently in demonstrated areas of competence in the delivery of sophisticated childcare as able.
• Consistently utilize safe, effective, crisis management techniques.
• Consistently take initiative to suggest innovative changes and additions that improve the quality of milieu care on the unit.
• Develop a clear understanding of trauma and display an empathetic, compassionate non‑judgmental attitude toward children and families.
• Demonstrate outstanding initiative in organizing therapeutic unit activities and support/train BHS staff in learning how this is accomplished.
• Provide guidance, monitoring, and role modeling to less‑senior staff during activities.
• Demonstrate consistent ability to assertively and respectfully communicate directly with appropriate person on issues of concern or conflict.
• May be assigned to specialized responsibilities as determined by Charge RN, CNM or Nursing Director.
• Provide daily feedback to charge RN regarding changes in patient behaviors and milieu issues.
• Demonstrate enhanced clinical expertise. While an individual is hired to work on a particular program, they may at times be asked to perform comparable duties in other clinical settings throughout the hospital system as program needs arise.

• BASIC KNOWLEDGE
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  Baccalaureate Degree in a Human Service field required. Must demonstrate aptitude and willingness to learn role‑related skills. Internal candidates must hold a position of Behavioral Health Specialist II or higher for role consideration. Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to patients throughout the life span with consideration of aging processes, human development stages and cultural patterns in each step of the care process.
• Safety Care Certification
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  Employees in this position work in a psychiatric setting under stressful conditions associated with care of psychiatrically impaired, suicidal, aggressive, and sometimes self‑injurious individuals. Employees are expected to build therapeutic rapport to prevent crisis and utilize de‑escalation techniques taught by Bradley Hospital to minimize need for physical intervention. Employees in this category must have the ability to remain calm during a crisis as evidenced by the ability to make quick, rational decisions and prioritize immediate patient care needs to maintain a safe therapeutic environment.
  
  Employees must also be able to participate in the physical management of patients, which can include, but is not limited to, awareness and demonstration of safe body positioning, coordination to block and deflect possible aggression, and the ability to physically hold struggling patients using approved methods only to maintain safety for extended periods of time. Specifically, such employees…