Behavioral Health Crisis Worker PRN

Company THOM Thomas Hospitals

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• Plans, organizes, and implements social work services to patients and families including plans for discharge, aftercare, and linkage to available community resources.
• Completes crisis assessments for Behavioral Health patients and arranges appropriate disposition.
• Performs intake assessment/evaluation of clients, including personal, social, and emotional development, family dynamics, and relevant biopsychosocial factors.
• Participates in multidisciplinary treatment planning with attention to age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, social and cultural influences, and spiritual needs.
• Assesses patients for discharge planning needs based on decision-making ability, self-care capacity, and placement considerations.
• Petitions for guardianship/conservatorship for adults who lack DMC where there is no one willing or available to serve as HCS and the patient has no MPOA.
• Provides documentation of evaluations and recommendations in the medical record; shares interpretations of social, psychological, and emotional problems with the department’s licensed social workers and other team members.
• Assesses patients for signs or symptoms of abuse and coordinates appropriate referral and counseling; applies knowledge of laws regarding child abuse, neglect, adult abuse, domestic violence, and related topics.
• Assesses psychosocial needs due to illness causing hospitalization (as age-appropriate) and coordinates care with care managers or physicians.
• Assists patients and families with end-of-life decision making and advance directives, including counseling on death and dying for various scenarios.
• Documents services provided with concise entries in the medical record regarding evaluation and plan of care.
• Evaluates social, financial, psychological, and family situations; refers patients to sources of financial assistance where appropriate.
• Discusses issues with patients such as advance directives, long-term care, informed consent, and basic patient rights; assists patients in preparing advance directives.
• Petitions for involuntary commitment for patients within hospital who are deemed a danger to self or others and are refusing treatment.
• Discusses patient disposition with psychiatrist and treating medical physician; documents disposition accordingly.
• Creates patient Behavioral Health Treatment Plan based on the patient’s admitting psychiatric problems/diagnosis.

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, sociology or other related field.
• Obtain Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification within 30 days of date of hire.
• Complete Crisis Prevention and Intervention (CPI) course or AVADE within 30 days of date of hire.

• Master’s degree.

• Two (2) years experience in a behavioral health setting.

The statements described here are intended to describe the general nature of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be constructed as an all-inclusive list of all responsibilities and duties. Other duties may be assigned.

• Performs intake assessment/evaluation of clients, including personal, social, and emotional development, family dynamics, and where appropriate, biopsychosocial antecedents, influences, and effects associated with substance dependence.
• Participates in multidisciplinary treatment planning, with attention to special treatment needs by reason of age, gender, sexual orientation, or ethnic origin, social and cultural influences, and spiritual needs.
• Assesses patients for discharge planning needs based on patient’s ability to make decisions, capabilities of caring for self and assisting with alternative arrangements for placement.
• Petitions for guardianship/conservatorship for adults who lack DMC where there is no one willing or available to serve as HCS and the patient has no MPOA.
• Interpretations of…