Mental Health Associate Professional-FT 2nd shift/ Bridges

Responsibilities

• Acts as preceptor to all student interns and staff on orientation status
• Affords assistance in managing and monitoring aberrant behaviors
• Affords assistance to residents in meeting individual appointments for assessment and/or treatment
• Collects data on each resident and prepares information for staffing
• Ensures that therapeutic programming is implemented
• Chairs all team debriefings before, during and after shift
• Notifies the treatment team on any major incidents (e.g., elopement, therapeutic holds, injuries or seclusions)
• Acts as contact person for on-duty RN regarding medical issues as well as consults and debriefs directly with RN regarding all precautions, elopements, utilization of time out and therapeutic holds, staff/patient injuries or any other major incidents
• Provides milieu documentation and monitors records with supervision
• Affords assistance in assuring that correct staff/resident ratios are met and adjusted as needed according to acuity
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested and job specifications can be modified or updated at any time.

Qualifications

• Required Education: Bachelors Degree in Human Services: Counseling, Education, Social Work, Psychology, or other related field
• Preferred Education: Masters Degree in Human Services: Counseling, Education, Social Work, Psychology, or other related field
• Required Experience: None - But must be able to verbalize knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of children and adolescents, ages six through seventeen (6-17) years old
• PREFERRED Experience: One (1) year of experience in residential treatment, day hospital, or acute psychiatric inpatient treatment with emotionally/behaviorally disturbed children and adolescents. Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of children and adolescents, ages six through seventeen (6-17) years old
• Required Certifications and Licensures: Current CPI (Crisis Prevention Management) certification within thirty (30) days of being hired into this role

Pay

Salary range: $20.47 - $29.69/hourly