UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital

Mental Health Professional I – Behavioral Health

Shift: PRN; 12 hour shifts; 0700-1930; weekdays or weekends

The Mental Health Professional I works one on one with patients and facilitates group psychoeducation sessions. There is also typically an element of care coordination, helping to coordinate services for patient to ensure all available community resources are utilized to the patient's best advantage

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• Develop and maintain the patient’s treatment plan throughout the patient’s course of treatment with input from the care team
• Keep patient, family, or others informed as to the patient’s progress throughout treatment as the patient desires.
• Complete safety planning
• Complete discharge planning
• May lead psychoeducational groups
• Coordinate patient’s social determinants of care needs
• Practice de-escalation techniques
• Provide patient information and make referrals
• Understand Medicaid and other governmental benefit systems and help patients navigate through the public mental health system.
• Help patients follow through with their health goals.
• Coordinate medical and behavioral healthcare for patients
• Assists patients with activities of daily living
• Conducts assessments including but not limited to suicide screening and mental health assessments, patient rights, obtaining releases of information, advanced directives etc.
• May completes patient rounding in order to maintain a safe environment
• Provides culturally and linguistically appropriate services
• May transport patients
• Maintains accurate, concise, and current clinical documentation
• Participate in all required trainings and educational activities
• Participate in department level meetings and huddles
• Be responsive to patients in applicable communication mode

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Driver’s license if in an outpatient setting (may require Class D license within 6 months of employment for outpatient setting)
• May be required to obtain BLS within 6 months of hire