About API

Alvarado Parkway Institute (API) is San Diego's leading provider of comprehensive mental health and substance abuse care. As a part of our Behavioral Healthcare system, API operates a free-standing 66 bed psychiatric hospital in La Mesa, California with four Intensive Outpatient/Partial Hospitalization Programs. These programs emphasize symptom management, community integration, and prevention of hospitalization or re-hospitalization.

Alvarado Parkway Institute is currently seeking a qualified individual to join our team as our Mental Health Worker. Mental Health Workers provide direct patient care to adults with psychiatric disorders, report and document observations to the Registered Nurses, and complete safety checks/patient rounds to ensure the safety and well-being of patients; and support the maintenance of therapeutic milieu.

You must complete an application online at our website to be considered for possible employment: https://apibhs.com/careers

• Position requires availability for variable shifts and days including weekends.

Mental Health Worker Responsibilities

• Establish and maintains good rapport and working relationships communications necessary for the delivery of quality patient care.
• Respond to requests for information from patients, families, and caregivers.
• Maintain the confidentiality of patient and organization information.
• Communicates pertinent information as necessary by telephone and/or writing.
• Recognizes and responds appropriately to priorities in assignments.
• Perform routine assignments independently, seeking direction when indicated for unusual or non-routine duties.
• Helps identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths.
• Assist patient ADL's (Activities of Daily Living)Mental Health Worker Required Skills and Experience

Mental Health Worker Required Education & Licenses

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers issued by the American Heart Association
• Must be able to multi-task and have great communication/observation skills.

Mental Health Worker Preferred Skills and Experience

• Evident knowledge
• One year of experience in related field and/or CNA.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, this position is frequently required to do the following:
• Use standard office equipment and access, input, and retrieve information from a computer.
• Use computer keyboard with manual and finger dexterity and wrist-finger speed sufficient to perform repetitive actions efficiently for extended periods of time.
• Communicate effectively in person or via telephone in a manner which can be understood by those with whom the person is speaking, including a diverse population.
• Give and follow verbal and written instructions with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Perform complex mental functions and basic arithmetic functions; interpret complex laws, regulations, and policies; collect, interpret, and/or analyze complex data and information.
• Vision sees details of objects at close range.
• Coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Reach forward, up, down, and to the side.
• Sit or stand for minimum periods of one hour at a time and come and go from the work area repeatedly throughout the day.
• Walk and/or stand for long periods of time (3/4 of the workday).
• Lift up to fifteen (15) pounds.
• Exerting up to twenty (20) pounds.