Mental Health Worker - FT Evening Shifts - Child Psych - INTEGRIS Meadowlake -Enid

This Mental Health Worker position will work evening shifts with occasional day and night shifts.

Mental Health Worker

Job Code: 2321

Position Summary:

The Mental Health Worker participates as a member of the treatment team under the direction of the RN or Program Manager. Responsibilities include actively supporting the philosophy and structure of the milieu through management and supervision of the patients in a manner that is age and developmentally appropriate. This position requires population specific competencies. Adheres to National Patient Safety Goals as appropriate based on the level of patient contact this position requires.

INTEGRIS Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Essential Functions:

The Mental Health Worker responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Acts as a primary caregiver to assigned patients, including assisting patients with daily living skills as needed

* Spends individual time with each assigned patient on a daily basis helping patients attain treatment goals

* Documents patient information for assigned patients

* Utilizes accepted intervention, under the direction of the RN, Administrator, or Director Clinical Services, in dealing with problematic patient behaviors
(i.e., therapeutic holds).

* Makes patient rounds as prescribed by unit policy and/or patient needs

* Assists in patient admission/discharge and transportation as needed

* Rides/Drives van when assigned, and monitors patient behavior to ensure physical and emotional safety.

Accountability:

The Mental Health Worker reports to the Manager with general supervision from the RN on shift.

Required Physical Demands (Subject to Reasonable Accommodation):
Keyboarding/Dexterity: Occasionally; activity exists up to 1/3 of the time
Standing/Walking: Occasionally; activity exists up to 1/3 of the time
Strength (Lift/Carry/Push/Pull): Medium (Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, or 10 to 25 pounds of force constantly to move objects)
Talking (Must be able to effectively communicate verbally): Yes
Seeing: Yes
Hearing: Yes
Color Acuity (Must be able to distinguish and identify colors): No

Mental Health staff must be able to assist with physical restraint of patients, utilizing the identified Behavior Management Technique System.

This position may have additional or varied physical demand and/or respiratory fit test