2nd Shift Nurse Aide (CNA)

About the role

This position will work at Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute, a 72-bed Joint Commission accredited State Mental Health Facility, located in Danville, VA. Nurse Aides (CNAs) work directly with patients to achieve therapeutic goals through activities of daily living (ADLs), attend to patients’ problems and concerns, encourage patients in activities, provide intervention for behavior problems and crisis situations, and promote patients’ awareness and coping skills to deal with realities of judicial controls as required.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with patients to achieve therapeutic goals through activities of daily living (ADLs)
• Attend to patients’ problems and concerns
• Encourage patients in activities
• Provide intervention for behavior problems and crisis situations
• Promote patients’ awareness and coping skills to deal with realities of judicial controls as required
• Monitor and report changes in patients’ medical and psychiatric status
• Understand and use the least restrictive interventions available per hospital policy and successfully avoid the use of seclusion and restraint whenever possible

Requirements

• Licensed and in good standing as a Nurse Aide in the Commonwealth of Virginia; license must remain valid and in good standing throughout employment
• Basic computer skills for completing documentation in an Electronic Health Record (EHR)
• Valid driver’s license that must remain valid throughout employment
• Ability to follow written and verbal directions
• Physical and mental ability to participate in patient’s treatment and behavior management including performing manual tasks, walking, sitting, standing, lifting, seeing, hearing, breathing, learning, writing and performing mathematical calculations

Qualifications

• High school diploma/GED
• Experience working in a psychiatric, healthcare facility, acute care, long-term or correctional setting

Skills

• Ability to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate client behavior through observing, conversing and listening
• Therapeutic interaction with patients
• Bilingual fluency in Spanish and English

Schedule

• 2nd shift, 2 12-hour shifts (11:00 am–11:30 pm) and 2 8-hour shifts (3:00 pm–11:30 pm) with a 30-minute meal break
• Work some holidays on a rotating basis and every other weekend
• Shift differentials: $2.50/hour weekdays and $3.00/hour weekends and weekday holidays