Inpatient Therapist - Adult Inpatient - Days/ Evenings

Full-time (80 hours biweekly)

Days and some evenings

Every-other weekend

Sign On Bonus Eligible

Mission including population served: To provide competent, safe care provided by a professionally skilled and capable staff, maintaining established standards of nursing practice, promoting autonomy and accountability for nursing professional practice. Patient populations served are adult and geriatric.

Services provided: The Adult Unit can accommodate clients aged 18 and older, with a typical length of stay of 6-8 days. The goal of the Adult Unit is immediate stabilization through medication, milieu participation, and individual & family therapy sessions for clients experiencing emergent mental health symptoms. Adult Services provides care for a range of client conditions: these include acute exacerbations of chronic psychiatric illnesses, thought and mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, dementia disorders, dual diagnoses of substance abuse/mental illness, mental retardation with psychiatric decompensation, serious suicide, or elopement risks. The plan of care is individualized to meet client needs as much as possible and may include any of the following modalities: individual group, family therapy, therapeutic groups, activities, and psychoeducational groups. The focus of care is on behaviors which brought the client to the hospital.

General Summary

Provides individual, group and/or family therapy. Provides preadmission screening to determine appropriateness for admission. Interviews patients and/or families to obtain psycho-social histories. Collaborates with the treatment team to develop a treatment plan and coordinates discharge planning.

Essential Functions:

• Interviews patients and family members to obtain information about home environment, family relationships, health history, and patient's personality traits.
• Conducts individual or group therapy sessions. Assesses patients' progress and modifies or extends treatment program accordingly.
• Provides therapeutic intervention with patient and family including individual, marital, parental, family and group therapies.
• Documents current, accurate observations of care to the patient in appropriate records.
• Coordinates care of assigned patients.
• Assists in the implementation of education and training experience for interns and other designated students.

Common Expectations:

• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span of the assigned patient population. Assesses and interprets patient age specific data and provides appropriate, age specific treatment. Provides direct patient care to assigned patient age group(s).
• Prepares and maintains written documentation as required by the profession and the department.
• Maintains established policies and procedures, objectives, quality assessment, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, inservice meetings, and workshops.
• Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.

Minimum Education:

• Master's Degree Required

Work Experience:

• Less than 1-year relevant experience required and

Benefits Offered:

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Short-term disability
• Education assistance
• Financial education and support, including DailyPay
• Wellness and Wellbeing programs
• Caregiver support via Wellthy
• Childcare referral service via Wellthy

For additional details: Benefits & Incentives | WellSpan Careers (joinwellspan.org)