Supervisory Licnsed Professional Mental Health Counselor-Inpatient Psychiatric Unit

Inpatient Psychiatric Unit (IPU) is a 30-bed, acute inpatient psychiatric treatment facility for Veterans with a wide variety of cooccurring mental health disorders. The IPU is an essential program component of the facility that significantly impacts the health care provided to Veterans and serves as a resource regionally and nationally. PRINCIPALES MISSIONS : Broad administrative and program management and development responsibilities for the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit (IPU), a 30-bed inpatient unit for treatment of Veterans with wide range of psychiatric and substance use disorders. Responsibilities include ensuring efficient daily operation of the organizational unit, professional management, and assisting in administrative responsibilities that are complex in scope and that constitute a significant portion of the Medical Center. Direct supervisory responsibility, and both technical and professional accountability, for the IPU Assistant Program Manager, staff physicians, and night shift APRNs and PAs. Responsibility for development of staff competencies and performance as well as promotion of working relationships and an effective treatment team environment. IPU leadership and staff, responsible for management of an effective therapeutic milieu. This includes development and implementation of therapeutic programming, management of the social dynamics of patient interactions, and direction of staff-patient interactions. Assists in oversight of effective interventions administered by the interdisciplinary treatment team at individual and systems levels. Assists in maintaining a healthy environment of care. Engages facility services, such as Bioengineering, Information Technology, Patient Safety, and Environmental Services, to correct deficiencies in the treatment and work environment. Maintains awareness of physical safety of staff and patients. Assists in the development and implementation of safety protocols to address a variety of emergency scenarios. Ensures that staff and patients are trained in safety protocols on a regular basis. Works to ensure that treatment programming, staff development, and the environment of care are managed at a level that meets or exceeds required accreditation standards by the Joint Commission. Additionally. Ensure that the IPU operations meet or exceed local facility and VA Central Office expectations for service delivery including OIG and MHEOC. Policies and procedures are developed that accurately reflect operational procedures. Policies and procedures are used for staff training and in support of required accreditation and service delivery standards. Maximize program performance and patient outcomes. Implements and maintains a system of measurement to assess patient progress and treatment outcomes. Treatment programming is modified over time to maximize outcomes. Takes a lead role in developing and implementing new programming or special projects that improve the efficacy and safety of residential treatment. Assesses the efficacy of new projects and programming toward a goal of maximizing desired outcomes. May perform psychological and substance abuse assessments of patients on IPU. May provide a full range of therapeutic interventions, including: individual, group, and marital therapy, psychoeducation, and care coordination. Provides psychological consultation to non-psychologist team members on a wide variety of patient care issues. Holds faculty appointments in appropriate academic departments of local universities. May provide full clinical oversight to Psychology Interns or other trainees completing training rotations in the IPU. Involved in the Psychology Training Program and serves as a member of the Training Committee. Involved in the training of medical students, medical and psychiatric residents, and nursing students. Research/Program Evaluation Oversees the establishment of program monitors and outcome measurements using data-driven quality assurance processes Assists in the ti

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The VA Salt Lake City Health Care System mission is: "To fulfill President Lincoln's promise to care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors." We accomplish this by serving and honoring the Veterans of the intermountain west. We offer a balance of professional and clinical complexity that stimulates growth, but still also allows the professional an opportunity to enjoy life outside of work. The health care system serves 70,000 Veterans in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada with the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center and 10 community clinics. The medical center is a teaching a hospital, with state-of-the-art technology, education and research, making it an ideal career choice for many clinical and administrative professionals. Our main facility is in Salt Lake City at the base of the Wasatch Mountains and adjacent to the University of Utah. Salt Lake is close to five National Parks, creating limitless year-around outdoor recreation. Dubb