Rehab Activity Leader - On-Call - Mental Health 107

About the role

La Paz is a 148-bed geropsychiatric center serving adults 55 and older. The mission is to provide excellent and effective behavioral health services that engage individuals in recovering their health, hopes, and dreams.

Responsibilities

• To change lives, the Rehabilitation Activity Leader plans and facilitates direct and indirect rehabilitation services for both individuals and groups.
• Demonstrates the Telecare mission, purpose, values and beliefs in everyday language and contact with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provides safe, effective and efficient implementation of direct care in accordance with established policies, procedures and standards of care.
• Establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with members served and acts as a role model in maintaining a hopeful and positive attitude in problem-solving and coping with the disabilities associated with mental illness.
• Led/co-leads therapeutic activity groups.
• Attends shift report and assists in providing unit supervision as needed.
• Maintains the inventory and orders equipment and supplies for activity programs, as directed.
• Maintains order and cleanliness of the Activity Rooms.
• Promotes and assists members served in developing self-help skills.
• Completes incident reports and forwards to Administrator in compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Notifies appropriate agencies of any known or observed incidents of abuse as required by law.
• Reviews and implements members served service plans.
• Participates in multidisciplinary team meetings and treatment planning meetings, as directed.
• Demonstrates knowledge of Pro-Act principles and uses Pro-Act concepts to manage aggressive behavior.
• Observes, records and reports members served social and psychiatric behavior.
• If employed at Inpatient program, must assist with restraint of members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training.
• If employed at Outpatient program, must evade members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training.

Qualifications

• One (1) year of direct service experience in a mental health setting.
• High School graduation or a G.E.D. equivalent and California Driver’s License (Class ‘C’).
• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• CPR, Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), and First Aid certified on date of employment or within 60 days of employment and maintain current certification throughout employment.
• Average communication skills.
• Knowledge of psychiatric treatment modalities.
• Ability to read, write and speak English.

Physical Demands

The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is occasionally required to sit, squat, kneel, push, pull and lift and carry items weighing 25 pounds or less as well as to frequently walk, stand, bend, twist, reach and do simple and power grasping. The position requires manual deviation, repetition and dexterity and to occasionally drive and be exposed to uneven walking ground.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off: For Full Time Employee it is 16.7 days in your first year.
• Nine Paid Holidays & Shift differentials for hourly staff (6% for PM Shift, 10% for Overnight Shift).
• Weekend Shift differentials for hourly staff (5% for Weekend AM Shift, 11% for Weekend PM Shift, 15% for Weekend Overnight Shift).
• Online University Tuition Discount and Company Scholarships.
• Medical, Vision, Dental Insurance, 401K, Employee Stock Ownership Plan.