Job Description

About the Company At Laurel Heights Hospital , we are committed to providing the highest quality of psychiatric and behavioral care. Our comprehensive pediatric programs and services are designed to bring hope and healing to children and adolescents who face complex psychiatric, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders. We strive to cater our approach to treatment to the needs of each child who comes into our care.

Treatment programs at Laurel Heights Hospital are structured for youth ages 6–17 who are dealing with general psychiatric difficulties and trauma. We also offer specialty mental health programs for children with co-occurring neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders.

About the Role

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Effectively interviews children, family members and guardians to conduct functional assessment and identify preliminary issues for treatment.

• Coordinates and develops treatment plans and behavior plans that integrate information obtained by comprehensive and ongoing assessments by the multidisciplinary team.

• Proficient in the application of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) in the treatment of children and adolescents with autism and severe behavior problems.

• Effective communications with children, using a communication method within their repertoire.

• Provides ongoing clinical and administrative supervision to Residential Instructors and Behavior specialist including 90- day, quarterly, and annual evaluations as well as informal and formal job coaching and disciplinary action.

• Develops and modifies discharge plan in conjunction with the parents, and treatment team based on an ongoing assessment of needs.

• Includes child, family, and guardian in appropriate transition efforts with respect to discharge status, discharge planning referrals/assistance; services provided; aftercare plan and recommendations.

• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of autism spectrum disorders and effective interventions to increase communication, socialization, and daily basic living skills.

• Demonstrates "cultural competence", by an understanding of the culture and values of different family systems and the ability to adjust approaches to successful engage families in treatment.

• Qualifications: Master's degree in social work or any combination of an equivalent degree
• Education or training in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Autism, experience in inpatient setting preferred
• BCBA certification is required
• Written and oral communication skills, skills in case management, and crisis intervention common to acute psychotic as well as to non-violent crisis intervention practice
• Knowledge of acute adolescent/child developmental and psychological disorders, advanced principals of abnormal psychology as specifically applied to population
• Familiarity with follow-up resource services available to children
• Skills in conducting individual group and family therapy
• Skills in maintain information as highly confidential
• Must have to ability to clearly summarize pertinent clinical information via written correspondence and medical records documentation.

Pay range and compensation package

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $120,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Equal Opportunity Statement All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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