Behavioral Health Aide: Crisis De-Escalation & Daily Support

AltaPointe Health Systems; Daphne (AL); On-site; USD 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

EastPointe Hospital in Daphne, AL seeks a Behavioral Aide to provide ongoing monitoring, safety engagement, and daily behavioral assessments for consumers in a psychiatric setting. The role supports classrooms and treatment teams, assists with personal care, transports, and routine unit duties.

The position requires a high school diploma or GED, willingness to work various shifts, and adherence to facility policies including crisis interventions.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED is required.

Responsibilities

• Provides ongoing monitoring of consumers.
• Engages consumers to ensure safety, needs are met, and participation in planned activities.
• Provides daily assessments of consumers’ behaviors via daily documentation requirements according to policy and standards.
• Assists consumers with personal hygiene issues (bathing, toileting, and other personal care), medical appointments, chores, recreational activities, and safety issues.
• Provides support to teachers during class time which may include assisting consumers with class assignments, keeping consumers on task, and intervening when necessary.
• Ensures unit schedules are followed and encourages consumers to actively participate in planned activities.
• Performs hand-off communication at shift change.
• Provides training on basic living skills (BLS) according to the consumers’ treatment goals as identified by the treatment team.
• Provides BLS groups and other applicable groups as needed per program schedule.
• Completes environment of care unit checklists and reports findings to supervisor.
• Ensures consumers receive meals and confirms information on the meal count sheet.
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize the elements of a crisis state and knows how to deescalate or resolve the situation.
• Applies seclusion and restraint per AltaPointe policy and procedure.
• Responds to crisis situations throughout facility using proper interventions.
• Documents crises, protective holds, seclusions, and restraints.
• Ensures units, room and common areas remain neat, tidy and in good operating condition. Encourages consumers to support the effort.
• Effectively collaborates and accurately communicates with treatment team members regarding consumers’ progress, regression, interactions, moods, attitudes, issues, crisis, etc.
• Participates in beginning/end of shift unit reporting
• Shows discretion when discussing consumers’ information with others
• Responsible for reporting consumer/staff problems to supervisor in a timely manner
• Demonstrates willingness to work on any unit at BayPointe based on facility needs as directed.
• Effectively models appropriate behavior including, but not limited to, good communication skills, grooming habits, manners, emotional maturity, etc.
• Transports consumer to prescribed locations or goes on unit errands as directed.
• Meets AltaPointe productivity standards.
• Effectively demonstrates the application of child and adolescent specific competencies.

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

EastPointe Hospital in Daphne, AL seeks a Behavioral Aide to provide ongoing monitoring, safety engagement, and daily behavioral assessments for consumers in a psychiatric setting. The role supports classrooms and treatment teams, assists with personal care, transports, and routine unit duties.

The position requires a high school diploma or GED, willingness to work various shifts, and adherence to facility policies including crisis interventions.