BWH- Mental Health Counselor Per Diem

Meadows of Wickenburg; Brookline (MA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

Bournewood Hospital in Brookline, MA seeks a part-time Mental Health Counselor to join the treatment team as the primary patient contact with milieu responsibilities. The role supports recovery planning and coordinates with unit management to implement treatment plans.

Responsibilities include de-escalation, patient safety checks, documenting progress, and collaboration with staff to ensure care continuity.

Qualifications

• Professional conduct and ability to support patient care plans.
• Ability to observe and respond to changes in patient condition.
• Strong adherence to confidentiality and policy requirements.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients to clarify treatment with a safe environment and assignments.
• Observe changes in mental status and safety on unit checks.
• Participate in de-escalation and restraints if needed (per policy and only for imminent risk).
• Support patient through admissions, discharge, orientation and transfer as directed.
• Take and record vital signs as directed.
• Assist with Activities of Daily Living and coordinate patient activities.
• Participate in discussions to inform interventions and outcomes.
• Implement treatment plan activities and document patient participation and responses.
• Maintain boundaries and required trainings.

Skills

Patient care

De-escalation

Treatment planning

Documentation

Boundaries & confidentiality

Job description

Job DetailsJob Location: Bournewood Hospital - Brookline, MA 02467Position Type: Part TimeSalary Range: $22.00 - $30.00 HourlyJob Shift: Per DiemJob Summary: The Mental Health Counselor is a member of the treatment team. This incumbent is the primary patient contact and also has milieu responsibility. The MHC receives guidance through the treatment plan and through unit management.

Essential Functions:

• Assists patients to clarify their course of treatment through providing a safe environment and performing assignments as needed.
• Consistently observes patients for changes in mental status and changes in safety on unit checks
• Participates in de-escalation using early intervention skills to assist, and restraints if needed (strictly for imminent risk only) of patients according to procedures and standards.
• Participates in accompanying the patient through admissions, discharge, orientation and transfer as directed.
• Takes and records patients vital signs as directed.
• Assists with or facilitates patient's self management of Activities of Daily Living
• Coordinates activities of assigned patients
• Participates in discussion of patients, contributing to understanding/interventions for effective outcomes
• Implements Treatment Plan through carrying out counselor activities in treatment plan
• Documents daily patients' participation in participation and observed response to interventions
• Adheres to policies surrounding boundaries, patient confidentiality, and stays up to date on required trainings.

QualificationsPhysical Criteria:

• Must be able to walk the grounds of the facility and potentially sprint short distances.
• Must be able to assist with patient care surrounding lifting, turning and restraining patients if needed.
• Must be able to lift 50-60 pounds.