Job Description
Primary Location: Peace - Louisville Address: 2020 Newburg Rd.Louisville, KY 40205 Shift: Second Shift (United States of America) Job Description Summary: UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center. With more than 12,000 team members-physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals-UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day. Job Description: The Behavioral Health Program Coordinator is responsible for planning, organizing, directing, coordinating and implementing the structured therapeutic program activities for individuals and groups of patients of an assigned patient care unit for a specific shift. The role may provide care to various patient populations including pediatrics, adolescents, adults and geriatrics. Essential Functions: Monitors therapeutic milieu to identify need to initiate structured interventions to ensure that patients are engaged and needs are met and acts as a patient advocate by ensuring each individual's rights are maintained at all times Provides leadership and guidance to unit staff, in collaboration with the nursing leadership, as it relates to programming and interventions to achieve and maintain a therapeutic milieu Stays informed regarding changing status of all patients on the unit and, in collaboration with the nursing leadership, assists in providing leadership to maintain a safe and therapeutic environment for patients and staff utilizing proactive techniques to de-escalate the milieu and/or individuals