Crisis Prevention Specialist

Description:

The Crisis Prevention Specialist will be responsible for the coordination of all aspects of training, mentoring and ongoing monitoring of crisis prevention activities. The Crisis Prevention Specialist, in close collaboration with the RTF Director, will be charged with achieving a significant reduction in the number/duration of physical holds with the ultimate goal of the elimination of the use of restraint.

Responsibilities:

Essential Functions:

• Participate in resident’s clinical assessment at the time of admission to the Residential Treatment Facility and ensure an individualized safety plan is developed in consultation with the youth, family members and staff.

• Provide consultation for the revision of individualized safety plans as needed

• Coordinate the facility’s analysis of restraint trend data such as frequency/duration; individuals involved (residents and staff); time, location, precipitating factors, etc. to refine quality improvement efforts.

• Ensure all staff who potentially may be involved in requesting and/or participating in a restraint has completed an OMH approved crisis management training curriculum.

• Offer ongoing mentoring to direct care staff in area of trauma informed care and de-escalation techniques.

• Utilize clinical knowledge to promote recovery oriented, strength-based approach with an emphasis on asset and resiliency building in daily therapeutic activities.

• Maintain contact with families and provide psycho-educational and skill building activities for families so that a strength based behavioral support approach is maintained when the child returns to a community setting.

• Conduct Quality assurance reviews to ensure all CMS and New York State requirements are met when a restraint is imposed including physicians orders, face to face evaluations of the physical and psychological well being of the individual being restrained, notifications, de-briefings, etc.

• Ensure prone restraint is not used

Physical demands and work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to walk, sit for long period of time; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or control; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment:

If the job requires a person to work in special working conditions this should be stated in this section. Special working conditions cover a range of circumstances from regular evening and weekend work, shift work, working outdoors, working with challenging clients, and so forth.
• Work is performed in an office environment with normal heating and cooling.

Qualifications: