Northern Light Acadia Hospital

Department: Adult Therapy Clinic

Position is located: Acadia - Remote/Hybrid Opportunities Available

Work Type: Full Time

FTE: 1.0 (40 hours)

Work Schedule: 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Summary:

The Senior Clinician serves as both a discipline expert and skilled clinician within their program area and a clinical supervisor for frontline clinicians. As direct care providers they function as advocates, brokers, educators and treatment specialists and have demonstrated clinical competencies at all levels of care within the hospital. In their supervisory role, the Senior Clinician serves as a leader, teacher and role model for other clinicians under the direction of the Clinical Supervisor. Within this capacity, they provide individual and group clinical supervision, manage caseload assignments, patient triage responsibilities and help to ensure that program operations are consistent with hospital standards reflective of evidence based and outcome informed care.

Responsibilities:

• Completes evaluations of patients which enable the clinician to identify potential therapeutic targets for active treatment in collaboration with the hospital treatment teams. • Identifies effective interventions to achieve outcomes, with consideration of patient motivation, health/spiritual beliefs and functional capabilities and strengths. • Creates treatment plans that reflect a continuum of services to be provided and the ability to analyze, classify, and interpret social and personal data, including trauma assessments and initial evaluation of risk to self and others. • Modifies interventions based on continued assessment of the patient’s response to treatment. • Expected treatment outcomes are patient oriented, outcome informed evidence based, therapeutically sound, realistic and attainable and measurable. • Provides individual contact with assigned caseload according to the master treatment plan goals. • Creates clinical documentation demonstrates use of relevant outcome data to inform clinical practice (including but not limited to OQ data). • Provides or co-leads therapeutic groups daily and or as assigned by Clinical Supervisor. • Completes all necessary paperwork and billing and delivers it to the appropriate place prior to the end of assigned shift. • Maintains clinical productivity established by the Administrator of Adult/Child Ambulatory Services and Senior Director of Clinician Services. • Provides case management to coordinate comprehensive health services (including primary care and dentistry), appropriate referrals to community providers and support systems to ensure continuity of care following discharge. • According to Hospital Policy, completes all documentation including admission history, daily progress notes, group notes, treatment plans and discharge summaries within the identified time frame. • Completes clinical documentation that demonstrates active client involvement in treatment and reflects barriers to treatment progress • Demonstrates reflective/active listening, feedback, summarizing, reframing, empathy, support, problem solving, coaching, and psycho-education skills. • Consistently complies with the policies and procedures as set forth in the Clinical Policy and Procedure Manual. • Provides direct service as needed in all hospital hotspots. • Gives and receives critical feedback on effectiveness of clinical interventions through regular peer review, scheduled staff meetings and supervisions. • Follows through with commitments to the patients and other providers in a timely and professional manner. • Communicates plans and coordinates with other team members the scheduling of meetings with patients. • Implements feedback from all disciplines when evaluating, planning and implementing interventions. • Provides individual and group clinical supervision to other staff as assigned, ie. nursing staff, support and ancillary staff. • Mentors all new staff to ensure high quality services is provided and provides feedback on annual performance reviews of other clinicians. • Provides individual and group clinical supervision to licensed providers as assigned by Clinical Supervisor. • Adapts supervisory model to match professional development needs of assigned clinicians. • Addresses critical events and grievances, and conducts case audits as requested. • Completes employee performance evaluations on time. • Ensures uninterrupted treatment provisions collaborating with other program areas as necessary to cover workload. • Ensures that assessment, treatment planning, and discharge planning on all patients served is completed according to regulations, hospital policies and client/family perceptions of needs. • Recognizes system issues and recommends appropriate interventions. • Anticipates, mediates, and resolves issues for staff and/or patient care issues. • Demonstrates an ability to develop others professionally. • Fosters the development of teamwork within department as well as across departments and with outside providers.

Other Information:

"Remote/Hybrid Opportunities Available"

This role can be performed remotely anywhere in the United States with the exception of California

Competencies and Skills

• 3+ years of relative work experience required.

• Achieves Results: Sets high standards for their own outcomes and seizes opportunities to engage others towards objectives. Consistently moves forward with direct actions in order to attain or exceed objectives. Manages their own time effectively to accomplish assigned tasks. Successfully prioritizes multiple projects and duties as needed.

• Acts Strategically: Creates effective plans that anticipate future consequences and opportunities and is able to connect the day to day operations to longer-term objectives, shifts in the industry, and system goals.

• Behaves with Integrity and Builds Trust: Acts consistently in line with the core values, commitments and rules of conduct. Leads by example and tells the truth. Does what they say they will, when and how they say they will, or communicates an alternate plan.

• Cultivates Respect: Treats others fairly, embraces and values differences, and contributes to a culture of diversity, inclusion, empowerment and cooperation.

• Demonstrates Adaptability: Learns quickly when facing a new problem or unfamiliar task; is flexible in their approach with changing priorities and ambiguity. Manages change effectively and does not give up during adversity. Capable of changing one's behavioral style and/or views in order to attain a goal. Absorbs new information readily and puts it into practice effectively.

• Demonstrates Emotional Intelligence: Exhibits a high level of self-awareness, self-management, other awareness and relationship management. Conducts themselves in an empathic, appropriate way, with a sense of humor and stimulates a collaborative work environment. Is respectful of the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others and aware of the influence of their own behavior on them. Is aware of relevant social, political, system, and professional trends and developments and uses this information for the organization's benefit.

• Develops Self and Others:Takes responsibility for engaging in professional self-development activities and programs. Strives to gain insight into their own values, strengths and weaknesses, interests and ambitions and takes action in order to enhance competencies and skills when possible. As a leader, encourages and guides employees towards growth opportunities to enhance performance and help them reach goals. Reviews and analyzes employees' strengths and weaknesses to distinguish their talents and development needs, and to ensure they are enhanced appropriately.

• Effectively Communicates: Listens, speaks and writes appropriately, using clear language. Communication methods are fitting to the message(s), audience, and situation and follow-ups are regular and timely. Shows that important (non-) verbal information is absorbed and understood and asks further questions to clarify when necessary. Expresses ideas and views clearly to others and has ability to adjust use of language to the audiences' level.

• Fosters Accountability: Creates and participates in a work environment where people hold themselves and others accountable for processes, results and behaviors. Takes appropriate ownership not only of successes but also mistakes and works to correct them in a timely manner. Demonstrates understanding that we all work as a team and the quality and timeliness of work impacts everyone involved.

• Influences and Inspires: Builds enthusiasm and commitment among others to move in a desired direction and models it personally. Creates a compelling vision of success that motivates workplace initiative and energizes others to follow. Provides direction and guidance to encourage cooperation between team members in order to attain an objective. Has the ability to appropriately influence others' actions and decisions with and without express authority.

• Word processing, spreadsheets, data entry, database experience and other computer related skills.

• Practices Compassion: Exhibits genuine care for people and is available and ready to help; displays a deep awareness of and strong willingness to relieve the suffering of others.

• Provides Patient-Centered Care: Demonstrates understanding of patient care quality and service as organizational priority. Proactively supports change to improve patient experience and results. Exhibits the ability and willingness to find out what the patient wants and needs and to act accordingly, taking the organizational and outside resources into account. Cooperates, collaborates, communicates, and integrates care within and between teams to ensure that care is continuous and reliable.

• Resolves Conflict: Promptly acts to find alternatives/solutions when team members disagree. Addresses issues in a direct, honest, and appropriate manner. Handles conflicting interests diplomatically and helps to solve them. Transforms difficult situations into teachable moments using respect and accountability .

Credentials

• Required Licensed Clinical Social Wkr

Education

• Required Master's Degree

Working Conditions

• Lifting, moving and loading less than 20 pounds.

• Alternate shift schedules (day, evening, nights, weekends).

• Prolonged periods of standing.

• Prolonged periods of walking.

Northern Light Acadia Hospital is a broad behavioral health delivery system centrally managed from its location in Bangor, Maine. Acadia Hospital is a leader in providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, tele-psychiatry, consultations to regional emergency departments, school-based and employer-based services, and integration into primary and specialty care practices. Northern Light Acadia Hospital offers innovative programming in the form of eating disorder services and a geriatric mood and memory clinic, which is involved in multiple clinical trials for promising Alzheimer's medications. The hospital is also the parent organization of Northern Light Acadia Healthcare which provides a substance use disorder treatment program, case management, and other outpatient mental health services serving patients from all corners of Maine. Acadia Hospital embraces service excellence and high quality care as evidenced by its commitment to achieve Center of Excellence status in the delivery of behavioral health services. Northern Light Acadia Hospital is a member of Northern Light Health, an integrated statewide health delivery system that is raising the bar with no-nonsense solutions that are leading the way to a healthier future for our state. Northern Light Health offers a broad range of providers and services, including ten hospitals, primary care and specialty physician practices, long-term care, home health and hospice agencies, and emergency ground and air transport. Bangor, Maine is a vibrant small city with easy access to Maine's spectacular coast, mountains, and lakes. Schools rank among New England's best with the flagship campus of the University of Maine located in the neighboring town of Orono. Bangor serves as the regional hub for medicine, the arts, and commerce. Bangor International Airport offers direct and one-stop service to many major destinations.

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