Mental Health Specialist- Center for Hope and Healing (Nights)

Responsible for

Delivers paraprofessional mental health care under direct supervision.

CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Facilitates or co-facilitates the therapeutic group process.
• Applies effective communication techniques in collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team and in interacting with clients and significant others in therapeutic relationships.
• Affords clients support in structuring their lives in a therapeutic manner.
• Serves as an active member of the mental health team, taking into account the developmental age of the client (as directed by the master treatment plan).
• Provides community-based mental health care, ensuring care is provided in a manner that respects safety, patients' rights, and comfort.
• Utilizes the master treatment plan to identify and implement developmental age-appropriate interventions with clients.
• Supports and reinforces appropriate and pro-social behavior, and sets limits in a therapeutic and consistent manner for inappropriate and antisocial behavior, adhering to program guidelines.
• Identifies and applies de-escalation techniques to situations involving potential aggressive behavior.
• Implements appropriate interventions and documents clients' responses in the medical record.
• Intervenes appropriately using the master treatment plan to address thought patterns and behaviors associated with different psychiatric diagnoses and developmental ages.
• Assists clients' family members and other supportive individuals in accordance with program standards.
• Performs basic medical tasks such as obtaining and documenting vital signs, collecting urine and stool samples, weighing clients, witnessing controlled substance waste disposal, and obtaining blood glucose levels.
• Assists clients in their activities of daily living (bathing, toileting, eating, and ambulation) as needed.
• May transport and supervise clients to appointments and activities.
• Organizes and facilitates specific recreation, physical fitness, and age-appropriate leisure time activities.
• Answers the phone and responds to all calls, including Helpline calls, in an appropriate and professional manner.

Physical Requirements

• Heavy/hard work: Requires strength and/or stamina, lifting, moving, stooping, reaching, standing, walking, and occasionally physical restraint of a client.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

• Inpatient setting or work within homes and living spaces of community-based clientele.

Skills And Abilities

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• The ability to work successfully under highly stressful conditions and adapt to varying workloads and work assignments.
• The ability to make sound, independent judgments based on scientific principles and collaborate with other multi-disciplinary team members.