Responsibilities

POSITION SUMMARY: Serves as an active member of the clinical staff; maintains a therapeutic relationship with all patients; assists in maintenance of a safe, clean, therapeutic environment; assures patient participation in program activities; and performs technical/patient care duties relative to patient’s health and safety.

EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education and experience equivalent to an High School Degree or Certified Nursing Assistant
• At least one year behavioral health or addictions patients. Prefer must be able to take and read vital signs.
• Six months corpsman experience in the armed forces with this type of population

Qualifications

SKILLS: Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write documentation of patients behavior, document clinical records and routine reports and correspondence. Also, Employee must have the ability to speak effectively to acute mental health and addiction patients, their family members, physicians and other treatment staff before groups of people or employees of organization, and individually.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measures, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Must have the ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or illustrative form. Also has the ability to deal with problems involving acute mental health patients and able to verbally de-escalate patients and remain calm in stressful situations when necessary. Discern when a situation within the unit is becoming escalated with a patient or patients. Able to communicate these concerns to other treatment staff members.

Mechanical Skills: Obtain vital signs, administer Oxygen, administer UDS test, administer UCG test, and perform ECG testing only when specifically trained for Assist in all patient’s Activity of Daily Living.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand for long period of times, walk, and occasionally sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee must be able to assist with physically restraining a patient when necessary. Also, may be exposed to second hand smoke during smoke break time with patients. May be exposed to weather conditions include heat outdoors while monitoring patients who are participating in their break time in designated courtyards.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.