Behavioral Health Specialist PRN (Nightshift)

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated.

About the Role

Performs duties of patient care necessary to implement individual treatment under the supervision of a Registered Nurse. Provides the psychological, emotional, and physical care and support required by each patient. Assists in maintaining the therapeutic environment of the clinical program with minimal guidance.

Responsibilities

• Performs clinical care consistent with the patient's treatment plan, including but not limited to vital signs, phlebotomy, specimen collection, and point-of-care testing as directed by unit standards.
• Collects data to contribute to the assessment of individual strengths and limitations.
• Independently assists patients with showering, oral hygiene, laundry, and other activities of daily living.
• Provides input to the patient’s assigned nurse and other healthcare professionals regarding patient’s progress towards treatment goals.
• Promotes and maintains a safe environment conducive to healing and health promotion.
• Able to provide effective and therapeutic limit setting with patients with direction from other staff.
• Assures orientation of newly admitted patients to the program and establishes a therapeutic relationship with the patients.
• Provides immediate feedback to the charge nurse about any safety concerns on the unit and offers potential solutions.
• Independently leads coping skills groups with patients.
• Additional duties may be assigned.

Technical Capabilities

• Facilitation of Positive Coping Strategies (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery in practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to deliver services without requiring support. Able to train and educate others.
• Human Growth & Development (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery in practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to deliver services without requiring support. Able to train and educate others.
• Patient Documentation (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery in practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to deliver services without requiring support. Able to train and educate others.
• Communication (Intermediate): Clearly, effectively, and respectfully communicates with employees or customers.

Core Accountabilities

• Organizational Impact: Performs tasks that are typically routine and may impact team's performance with occasional guidance.
• Problem Solving/Complexity of Work: Utilizes some discretion and research to solve routine problems.
• Breadth of Knowledge: Applies knowledge of standards, established processes, and procedures that apply to your own job.
• Team Interaction: Provides guidance to entry-level co-workers.

Core Capabilities

• Supporting Colleagues:
  • Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.
  • Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities and working styles, developing relationships across areas.
  • Communicates Effectively: Openly shares information and communicates in a clear and courteous manner.
• Delivering Excellent Services:
  • Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems and needs of others to provide excellent service.
  • Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner.
  • Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Listens carefully to understand issues and provides accurate information and support.
• Ensuring High Quality:
  • Performs Excellent Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards.
  • Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions.
• Managing Resources Effectively:
  • Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches.
  • Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions impact departmental resources.
  • Makes Data-Driven Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision-making to achieve results on time and without error.
• Fostering Innovation:
  • Generates New Ideas: Proposes or accepts ideas that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them.
  • Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly and understands when to utilize appropriate tools and procedures.
  • Adapts to Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.

Requirements

• 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Graduate of an approved discipline-specific program.

Benefits

This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within Vanderbilt Health, supported by a comprehensive benefits package which may include health, disability, retirement, and/or wellness offerings to enhance your well-being and professional growth.