Therapeutic Program Lead - Child Psych

"To Heal. To Teach. To Discover." At University Hospitals, these words represent more than just our mission; they encapsulate the opportunities available to the numerous world-class doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals, and support staff who choose to join UH and make a difference.

The Therapeutic Program Lead role within the Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital - Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Unit offers a unique chance to become part of a dynamic, collaborative interdisciplinary team. This position adds value to patient care and significantly assists individuals with various issues.

We currently offer an opportunity for a full time, Therapeutic Program Lead to support children and adolescent patients with psych issues.

Joining our team comes with several benefits, including:

• Free parking for regular status caregivers
• Tuition reimbursement
• Full benefits and retirement
• Support for continuing education, career growth, and professional development

A Brief Overview
Organizes, develops and conducts daily therapeutic programs to facilitate rehabilitation of people with psychosocial illnesses; assesses, maintains and develops programs to enhance social, cognitive, physical and emotional functioning of patients.

What You Will Do

• Performs evaluation of therapeutic milieu program and develops effective treatment programs that are appropriate for individual or groups of patients.
• Provide effective group and individual therapeutic programming in a competent manner.
• Educate patient/family/caregiver in skills applicable for discharge plan.
• Initiates collaboration and participates in the interdisciplinary care process.
• Assist with process improvement initiatives and projects.
• Educates interdisciplinary team in group process, serves as role model and participates in education of new and existing staff.
• Perform other department activities such as, but not limited to documentation, billing, support of department operations, etc.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
• Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.