Mental Health Assistant 1 (40 Hour)(Office/On-Site)

Overview

Provide direct-care support to acutely ill psychiatric patients in inpatient units.

Key Responsibilities

• crisis intervention
• medication monitoring
• treatment planning
• care coordination
• behavior management
• therapeutic milieu

Tasks

-Respond to and deescalate patients in crisis; -Maintains a safe and healthy environment; -Work closely with a multidisciplinary team of providers, and other patient natural supports to ensure patients receive the highest quality of mental health care. -Ensure a safe and therapeutic milieu within a psychiatric treatment program; -Functions as a member of a case management team or program; -Participates in admission and discharge planning activities; -May supervise self-administration of oral medication. -Identifies and facilitates use of appropriate support networks; -Support and assist patients with transferring from bed to chair, commode, and ambulation as needed to maintain safety and prevent falls; -Stay connected! Log in daily to your JobAps Personal Status Board to track your status and check email (including spam/junk folders) for updates and tasks. -Observes and records client behavior and prepares pertinent reports; -Collaborate with unit staff and be responsive to patient care needs; -Work with a treatment team that develops goals to assist patients to stabilize, rehabilitate, and establish and focus on their recovery goals; -Establish therapeutic relationships; -Participates in assigned nursing, clinical and/or rehabilitative interventions to meet client short and long-term needs; -Participates in development of nursing care and treatment plans; -Assists client in learning and practicing daily living skills, medication monitoring and/or community adaptation skills; -May participate in follow up of client in community-based services; -Assists client in developing effective strategies for managing internal and external stress; -Provide continuity and coordination of patient care; -Participates in assessment, crisis intervention and monitoring of clients in community at large (i.e., emergency rooms, jails, homeless shelters, outpatient programs, etc.); -May manage client behaviors through verbal communication as needed; -Participates in education and training activities to further skill development; -Participates in on-going education and training programs; -Advocates for services or resources that meet client needs and preferences; -Assist patients in regaining a level of functioning that will allow them to transition to a less restrictive environment and to return to community-based living; -Provide treatment for severely and acutely ill psychiatric patients who require a safe, supportive, highly structured hospital level of care; -Encourages client to participate in therapeutic activities; -Provides individual, group and/or family supportive treatment under appropriate supervision. -Protects civil rights of client;

Requirements

• associate degree
• clinical experience
• counseling skills
• leadership
• driver's license
• teamwork

What You Bring

-Routinely solicits personal goals and preferences; -Incumbents in this class may be required to travel. -interpersonal skills; -Incumbents in this class may be required to be bilingual or fluent in American Sign Language. -counseling skills; -An Associate's degree in mental health technology may be substituted for the General Experience. -Experience assisting clients/patients in short- and long-term needs through the participation of assigned nursing, clinical and rehabilitative interventions. -Experience working in a clinical setting and providing verbal de-escalation techniques to clients/patients. -acceptable standards of nursing care; -Two (2) years of college training in a behavioral science, social work, rehabilitation therapy or its equivalent may be substituted for the General Experience. -Incumbents in this class may be required to possess and retain a valid Motor Vehicle Operator's license. -Experience working on a multi-disciplinary team/program. -Experience observing and recording client/patient behavior in a inpatient setting and preparing pertinent reports. -Experience providing assistance with activities of daily living in an inpatient setting. -Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions. -Experience providing leadership/direction to colleagues on a team. -Experience participating in admission and discharge planning. -Knowledge of -Referral Questions: This posting may require completion of additional Referral Questions (RQs), which must be completed by the questionnaire’s expiration date. If requested, RQs can be accessed via an email sent to you after the job close date or by visiting your JobAps Personal Status Board (Certification Questionnaires section). -Completion of a mental health trainee certificate program may be substituted for one-half (1/2) year of the General Experience. -One (1) year of experience as a Recovery Support Specialist providing peer support to agency clients may be substituted for the General Experience. -Communicates and interacts with clients; -oral and written communication skills; -psychiatric rehabilitation and/or case management principles and procedures;

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Benefits

-Candidates hired from this posting may be initially provided with a temporary assignment; the permanent assignment will be determined within the first six months of employment. -Embrace a healthy work/life balance tailored to all employees -Upon successful completion of the working test period, effective the payroll period following, the Employee shall be compensated at an hourly rate of $27.58. -Enjoy endless opportunities for professional growth and development -UNIT: Co-Occurring Treatment Unit (CTU), Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) 1 and 2 -Employees who have previously completed a working test period in an 1199-covered direct-care position shall not be subject to this reduced training rate upon transfer or promotion. -New hires to the classification of Mental Health Assistant 1 shall be paid an hourly rate of $26.31.

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Security Clearance

-comprehensive medical examination and drug screening required upon conditional offer of employment.