Behavioral Health Associate – Direct Care & Safety Leader

NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k) plan with up to 4% CompanyMatch

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Generous PTO and Time Off Policy

Tuition offers through Capella

Work/life balance with growth

LifeMart employee discounts

Job summary

NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals seeks a Behavioral Associate for its North Valley Behavioral Hospital in Huber Heights, OH. You will work with physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to provide direct behavioral care to patients with psychiatric conditions, both day and night shifts.

Requirements include a High School Diploma or GED; an Associate degree or some college in psychology or related field is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify high risk patients, uses Crisis Intervention practices and support safety plan intervention techniques to maintain a safe environment.
• Performs environmental/patient safety rounds and implement a higher level of observation in emergencies. Reports observations, interactions and patient activity to assigned nursing staff timely.
• Understands patient characteristics, triggers, through trauma informed care and patient/environmental variables in order to assist in preventing patients from losing control.
• Participates in shift hand-off meetings, unit rounds, community meetings, team meetings and committee meeting as required.
• Participates in debriefing after codes, incidents, and use of restraints.
• Assists in the assessment of need for as well as the application and removal of restraints
• Leads or co-leads discussion groups on topics such as anger and safety.
• Reviews incident reports as needed to identify possible preventable factors and present these to the treatment team.
• Escorts patients during transfer, for testing or for admission on or off facility premises as required.
• Participates in quality assurance/performance improvement activities and departmental and/or facility-wide training as required.
• Provide ongoing training to unit-staff in implementation of de-escalation training and physical interventions.
• Assists the nursing staff in performing selected nursing procedures and functional tasks to specific patients
• Provides direct physical care, and/or one to one observation to selected patients under supervision
• Assists with lifting, positioning. moving and ambulating patients using body mechanics as instructed
• Transports patients by wheelchair, stretcher or bed
• Escorts ambulatory patients
• Escorts patients outside of the hospital as necessary
• Obtains and records blood pressure, temperature, pulse and respiration rate in accordance with hospital policy.
• Provides direct assistance to patients with Activities of Daily Living as needed.

Job description

NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals seeks a Behavioral Associate for its North Valley Behavioral Hospital in Huber Heights, OH. You will work with physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to provide direct behavioral care to patients with psychiatric conditions, both day and night shifts.

Requirements include a High School Diploma or GED; an Associate degree or some college in psychology or related field is preferred.