Mental Health Worker

Overview

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

Responsibilities

• Provides individualized patient care to ensure the safety and dignity of the patient.
• Follows the patient care plan preserving patients' safety, dignity and autonomy.
• Affords assistance to the nursing staff to maintain a therapeutic milieu to support safety, care and treatment on the unit.
• Initiates patient activities and social interactions in individual and group situations/settings consistent with the individual's plan of care and unit safety.
• Participates in unit activities that promote competency and a safe and cohesive nursing treatment team.
• Regularly attends staff meetings. Regularly reads staff meeting information as published.

Qualifications

• Graduation from high school supplemented by at least two (2) years of college; Or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A minimum of one (1) year experience in a psychiatric facility, i.e., an inpatient unit or an outpatient psychiatric clinic.

Special Skills

• Ability to deal effectively with agitated or violent patients.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Physical Demands

• Requires prolonged standing; walking; use of sight, hearing, and touch.
• May be exposed to infectious diseases. Will be exposed to physical, mental and emotional illness.
• Moderate stress and risk of injury from patient care.
• Standing/walking for more than half of the day.
• Frequently bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting and lifting.
• Must be able to assist pushing/pulling/lifting patients ranging from five (5) to three hundred (300) pounds.

YNHHS Requisition ID

186932