Posted: 14-Jun-22
Location: Grand Junction, Colorado
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 14805
You.
You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Psychiatric Evaluation & Triage (PET) Team Supervisor.
Youâ™re generous with your compassion, your partnerships and especially your passion for patient advocacy.
Youâ™re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.
Us.
St. Maryâ™s Medical Center is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 346-bed regional medical center is in Grand Junction, one of the most beautiful places on earth. Our mission is to bring health and hope to the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other.
Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, weâ™ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.
We.
Together weâ™ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. Weâ™ll honor each otherâ™s dignity and surpass the standards we set. Weâ™ll encourage joy, demand safety and take pride in our integrity.
Weâ™re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.
Your day.
As a PET Team Supervisor you need to know how to:
- Provide mental health and substance abuse assessment, crisis evaluation, screening and referral of treatment for both ED patients and inpatients.
- Make appropriate treatment recommendations individually and in coordination with consulting psychiatrist and/or physician as applicable.
- Perform comprehensive psychosocial assessments with emphasis on patient and family coping skills, safety concerns, financial status, and communication skills.
- Seek psychiatric placement both locally and out of county for any medically cleared psychiatric patient to decrease length of stay and ensure appropriate care. Coordinate discharge/treatment plan with medical and interdisciplinary staff related to psychiatric admission needs for timely discharge.
- Initiate appropriate legal paperwork under Colorado regulations and ensure legal paperwork initiated by non-PET staff is completed adequately while providing education to staff in these matters as well.
- Coordinate with local courts on appropriate and legal filing of necessary paperwork for legal holds.
- Serve as a liaison for community mental health and substance abuse providers, law enforcement, EMS, county attorney, DHS, and other agencies as appropriate.
- Communicate and collaborate with medical, interdisciplinary team staff, patient / family, insurance agencies, and social agencies to provide a quality discharge plan to appropriate, safe level of care related to their psychiatric needs.
- Provide guidance, direction, and interpretation of legal statutes related to psychiatry or legal implications in this area impacting the organization.
- Provide clinical and some administrative oversight of psychiatric evaluation team (PET) in coordination with Director of Behavioral Health.
Your experience.
We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:
- Masterâ™s degree in Social Work (MSW) from an accredited program, required.
- Current Colorado Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), required.
- Demonstrated experience and understanding of DSM-5, psychiatric medications, crisis interventions, and complete bio psychosocial assessment, required.
- Demonstrated experience completing diagnostic formulation and differential diagnosis, required.
- At least three (3) years of related experience, preferred.
Your next move.
Now that you know more about being a PET Team Supervisor on our team we hope youâ™ll join us. At SCL Health youâ™ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.
