MILIEU MANAGER

Milieu Manager Opportunity

West Oaks Hospital has provided psychiatric care to the Houston area and surrounding communities for over four decades. Our 176-bed acute care facility is fully accredited and includes a 16-bed residential treatment center for adult chemical dependency. We offer a broad range of behavioral health programs for children, adolescents, and adults. Treatment is offered at multiple levels of care including inpatient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient. We are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to assist you and answer your questions about treatment options and insurance coverage. The hospital is easily accessible off the Southwest Freeway near the Galleria.

West Oaks Hospital is seeking a dynamic and talented Milieu Manager to join our team of compassionate, dedicated professionals. The Milieu Manager is responsible for overseeing Mental Health Technicians and ensuring patient safety on the units. The Milieu Manager will teach new tools for staff to use when working with patients and ensure appropriate and evidence-based practice care to promote positive outcomes with patients. The Milieu Manager will ensure staff provide a safe and therapeutic milieu, crisis intervention, education groups, and ensures staff encourages all patients to attend their activities of daily. Directs, supervises, and evaluates performance of MHTs in the provision of patient care. The Manager, Milieu also ensures that the program schedule is adhered to by staff. Additionally, the Milieu Manager will be responsible for recognizing nursing team members who need additional training with therapeutic techniques/skills and provide intentional redirection and oversight to help improve such skills.

Job Duties:

• Milieu Management
• Facilitates the completion of safety round checklists
• Continually monitors the milieu
• Identifies problems in the delivery of patient care, develops solutions and monitors effectiveness
• Training and Staff Development
• Provision of Care
• Safety Management
• Other duties as assigned

Benefit Highlights:

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive compensation & generous paid time off
• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug plans
• 401(k) with company match and discounted stock plan
• SoFi student loan refinancing program
• Student loan forgiveness program
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ subsidiaries

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About Universal Health Services:

One of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $15.8 billion in 2024. UHS was again recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune; listed in Forbes ranking of America's Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 99,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

Qualifications Requirements:

• Education Required: Bachelor's degree in Special Education, Psychology or related field. May be substituted with related experience on a 1:1 basis.
• Licensure and certification Required: CPR and hospital de-escalation certifications.
• Preferred: National Certified Psychiatric Technician certification.
• Experience Required: Five (5) years of experience in hospital or healthcare setting to include at least 2 years of lead, supervisory or management experience. Experience with behavioral health population preferred.
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