Behavioural Interventionist

**Company description**:
One of Canada's Best Diversity Employers and Greater Toronto's Top Employers for many consecutive years, William Osler Health System (Osler) provides a safe and supportive health care network to grow your career. Osler is nationally recognized for its commitment to patient safety and is Accredited with Exemplary Standing, the highest rating a Canadian hospital can receive. As a major Ontario hospital system, and home to some of the biggest specialty and emergency departments in the country, Osler serves the 1.3 million residents of Brampton, Etobicoke and surrounding communities. We are proud to offer you incredible exposure to best-in-class health care delivery and challenging hands-on opportunities to stay at the top of your game.

A hospital system built for and by the community, we continue to expand our services to meet the needs of a growing population, creating opportunities for increased hands-on skills development, cross-department training and promotional opportunities. Guided by our accomplished senior leadership team, together we are driving our vision of patient-inspired health care without boundaries.

At Osler, we invest in careers that go beyond where health care professionals like you can achieve their goals and find deep personal and professional fulfillment. Join our team today

**Job description**:
The Behavioural Interventionist will support staff and informal caregivers, providing care to individuals with responsive behaviours that are unmanaged and are deemed as a barrier to being able to provide care. These behaviours may be associated with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, mental health, substance use, and other neurological conditions.

Accountabilities:

- Conduct behavioural assessments as set out in Alzheimer Society Peel best practice guidelines
- Collaborate with patient, caregivers and hospital staff to identify triggers to behaviours
- Implement, evaluate and document specific behavioural interventions in consultation with elder life specialist
- Develops, monitors and evaluates the care plan recommendations by reviewing documentation, behavioural tracking and outcome measures to illustrate impact
- Provides patient specific education, training, modeling and coaching to hospital staff involved in patient care
- Creates appropriate referrals to additional BSO team members where needed to support the patient, caregiver and staff
- Provides support to ensure the successful transition of patients from the hospital to their next transition location through:

- The connection and collaboration with community services as needed to the patient and caregivers
- Pre-transition planning which will include the patient and the caregiver; will include the adoption of a standardized risk assessment to identify the transition risks
- The development of an individualized transitional care plan which will be shared with families and caregivers to support the transition and mitigate the identified transition risk
- Provide the necessary information to the patients and caregivers to support the transition
- Ensures patients and caregivers are provided with timely and appropriate information and referral to the Alzheimer Society Peel and BSO services
- Identifies staff and caregivers who would benefit from additional education and makes the appropriate referrals
- Encourages independence
- Implements the necessary protocols to assist in the management of behaviours, facilitate success in managing behaviours and in providing care
- Coach staff in understanding and managing responsive behaviours
- Direct observation of patient during times of reported, responsive behaviours to identify triggers/unmet needs and recommend appropriate strategies to manage the behaviour
- Participates in care conferences/patient huddles as required
- Maintains ongoing contact with medical health care professionals
- Initiates and participates in ongoing collaboration with community partners
- Maintains accurate and timely monthly statistics through the identified statistical reporting system
- Initiates and participates in ongoing collaboration with community partners
- Maintains accurate and timely monthly statistics through the identified statistical reporting system
- Prepares and submits the required administrative documentation as required
- Participates in administrative team meeting provides input and ideas for improving communication, services, client/caregiver support, as part of special projects, quality improvement

**Job qualifications**:

- Community college diploma in a health care related field (Bachelor’s degree in a health care related field is preferred)
- Certificate in gerontology preferred or demonstrated evidence towards completion is preferred
- Gently persuasive approach certified
- One year recent experience working with the seniors and those with cognitive impairment in an acute care setting
- Experience with the prevention and management of geriatric sy