Youth Services Manager

Youth Services Manager

The Youth Services Manager will be responsible for the day to day oversight of adolescent patients and the Adolescent Psychiatric Rehabilitation Treatment Facility (PRTF) / Residential Treatment (RTC) Program at RBHH. The Youth Services Manager is responsible for the development of a comprehensive RTC program that responds to the community's needs and supports the organizations overall mission, philosophy and goals.

Key Responsibilities :

• Ensures that staff has adequate training in all procedures.
• Coordinates with the Human Resources Director the interviewing, selection, promotion, and evaluation of applicants and employees as required by Reno Behavioral Healthcare Hospital.
• Provides guidance to staff to assist them in continually improving all aspects of care.
• Monitors staff performance and provides regular feedback on quality and quantity of work and on conduct.
• Represents and distributes information about Reno Behavioral Healthcare Hospital services to community healthcare entities in a positive educational manner.
• Current on referral sources and interacts effectively with patients, peers and other staff on appropriate patient treatment options.
• Understands and communicates the disease pathology associated with behavioral conditions and their models of treatment.
• Facilitates the patient's access to the appropriate level of care and setting.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with physicians, nursing staff, health professional affiliates in community, and other departments within the facility.
• Demonstrates good skills in assessing client's crisis and clinical indicators.
• Prepares written report of assessment results in a timely manner (immediately following completed assessment) and includes recommendations for the level of care and treatment needs.
• Makes appropriate interventions during assessments, and crisis situations with clients, family / friends and other professional staff.
• Assesses need for involuntary hospitalization evaluation and contacts county crisis team, law enforcement or Legal 2000 (L2K) employee as needed to ensure the safety of client and others.
• Maintains knowledge of the developmental tasks and sociological theories of pertinent age groups.
• Maintains knowledge of legal guidelines pertaining to EMTALA / COBRA and abuse / neglect reporting.
• Stays abreast of organization's programs and services.
• Participates in activities which enhance professional growth and development.
• Performs related duties, as requested.
• Upholds the Organization's ethics and customer service standards.
• Growth and management of the PRTF / RTC locally. Potential development in other regions.
• Ability to perform all key responsibilities as outlined in the Therapist III position.
• This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as required to meet the ongoing needs of Reno Behavioral Healthcare Hospital.

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Benefits :

A full benefits package is available the first of the month following just one month of employment! This package includes : Medical (three plans to choose from), Dental (two plans to choose from), Vision, Life Insurance options, including plans for spouse and children, 401(k), Pet Insurance, Identity Theft insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and a very generous PTO plan and more!